KAZIM ALI
Kazim Ali is a poet and performance artist living in the Hudson Valley. In addition to his writing, he performs
with the Cocoon Modern Dance Company and teaches yoga at the Sadhana Yoga Center in Hudson, NY.

BRUCE ANDREWS
"I've published two dozen books of poetry and performance scores, have essays on poetics in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Northwestern Univ Press). Most recent book-length projects are Lip Service (Coach House Press) and The Millennium Project (a 990 part sequence). I teach Politics at Fordham University and am the Music Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers."

NICK CARBO
Nick Carbo is the author of Secret Asian Man and El Grupo McDonald's (both by Tia Chua Press).
He will be teaching poetry workshops in the MFA program in Columbia College, Chicago this Spring 2004

DEL RAY CROSS
Del Ray Cross lives in San Francisco and looks down into the courtyard full of hummingbirds and doves. He edits SHAMPOO. He wrote a little book called Cinema Yosemite (by Pressed Wafer).

OLIVER DE LA PAZ
Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Ontario, Oregon. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University. He has taught creative writing at Arizona State University and Gettysburg College. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Utica College. His book of prose poems and verse, Names Above Houses,
was a winner of the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series in poetry and was published by Southern Illinois University Press. His work has appeared in numerous journals such as the Asian Pacific American Journal, Quarterly West, North American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and the Arts, and elsewhere.

LUIS FRANCIA
Luis H. Francia's books include The Arctic Archipelago and other Poems, and Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago. A new book of poems is due out next year, Museum of Absences.

SARAH GAMBITO
Sarah Gambito is the author of Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. She teaches at Rutgers University and Baruch College.

KEVIN KILLIAN
Kevin Killian, born 1952, is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright. He has written a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and a book of stories, Little Men (1996) that won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. His new collection I Cry Like a Baby new from Painted Leaf Books. With Lew Ellingham, Killian has written many essays and articles on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and co-edited Spicer's posthumous books The Train of Thought and The Tower of Babel (both 1994). Their biography of Spicer, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1998. Killian's work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in, among others, Best American Poetry 1988 (ed. John Ashbery), Men on Men (ed. Geo. Stambolian), Discontents (ed. Dennis Cooper), Best Gay American Fiction 1996 and 1997 (ed. Brian Bouldrey), and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (ed. Timothy Liu). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino) and Often (2001, with Barbara Guest). His next book will be all about Kylie Minogue.

PAOLO JAVIER
Paolo Javier is the author of 'the time at the end of this writing' (Ahadada Books).

JOSEPH LEGASPI
Joseph O. Legaspi was born in the Philippines, and raised there and in Los Angeles where he immigrated with his family when he was twelve. He holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Currently, he lives in New York City and works at Columbia University. Recent poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto Del Sol, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Titling the Continent, an anthology of Southeast Asian literature. He is a recipient of a 2001 poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

SANJANA NAIR
Sanjana Nair is a poet and writer holding an MFA from New York University. She is a Professor for the City Universities of New York (CUNY). She has served as a judge for CUNY's creative writing competition, is a founding board member of Kundiman, Inc. (a NYFA sponsored, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Asian American poetry), has instructed for CUNY's program to highlight poetry in the schools with guest lecturers Kimiko Hahn, Billy Collins (Poet Laureate) and Grace Schulmann, and has published poetry in numerous journals including Spoon River Anthology. She currently writes and lives on the tiny, bustling island of Manhattan.

AARON PECK
Aaron Peck: “My writing has appeared online and print in such places as FRONT magazine and The News. I have collaborated with a number of installation artists and photographers over the past few years and have had work published in catalogs for shows at the Surrey Art Gallery and artspace (Auckland, NZ, forthcoming), among others. I am the author of two poetry chapbooks: Twilight Suites(Greenboathouse Books, 2002) and Three Glasses of Water (above/ground, 2003). Currently I am living in Toronto, where I'm registered as a graduate student at York University. Recently I co-wrote a screenplay, The Zoo Project, which is being filmed this December in Vancouver.”

JON PINEDA
Jon Pineda's first poetry collection, BIRTHMARK, won first prize in the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition and will be published in March 2004 by Southern Illinois University Press. New work is appearing in PUERTO DEL SOL and the MISSISSIPPI REVIEW.

MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN
Meredith Quartermain has published and read in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. Books and chapbooks include Terms of Sale (Meow 1996), Spatial Relations (Diaeresis 2001), A Thousand Mornings (Nomados 2002) and The Eye-Shift of Surface (greenboathouse 2003). With Robin Blaser, she recently completed a series of poems, entitled Wanders (Nomados 2002). In Fall 2002, ecopoetics published some of her long poem Matter (now forthcoming from Chax). Her work has also appeared in Matrix, Queen Street Quarterly, The CapilanoReview, West Coast Line, Raddle Moon, Five Fingers Review, Chain, Sulfur, Tinfish, Potepoetzine, East Village Poetry Web, Jacket, Goodfoot, and other magazines.

PETER QUARTERMAIN
Peter Quartermain retired in 1999 after teaching English at the University of British Columbia for more than 35 years and is now enjoying life. He lives in Vancouver.

BINO REALUYO
Bino A. Realuyo's poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies such as The Nation, Manoa, Mid-American Review, Puerto del Sol , New Letters, and The Kenyon Review. He has received a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America. He is the author of the novel, The Umbrella Country.

BARBARA JANE REYES
Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books). She was born in Manila and raised in the SF Bay Area suburb of Fremont, where she was educated by Catholic hippies (not nuns) for 12 years. After a 10 year on-again-off-again stint at UC Berkeley, where she served as editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking Pilipino American literary publication Maganda, she is now an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University, where she has happily found herself in a balancing act upon the bleeding edges separating the Pilipino/a American community and the Ivory Tower/academy.

PATRICK ROSAL
Patrick Rosal is the author of the full-length collection of poetry Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive , winner of the 2004 Asian American Writers Workshop Members' Choice Award. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the 2001 Palanquin Poetry Series Award. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including North American Review, The Literary Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and The Beacon Best. His poems have been honored by the James Hearst Prize, the River Styx Prize, and the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards. In addition to serving as Dodge Poet, he is Assistant Professor of English at Bloomfield College.

THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI
Thaddeus Rutkowski's novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Press, New York), was a finalist for the Members_ Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His writing has appeared recently in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Fiction magazine, and American Letters and Commentary. He teaches fiction writing at Pace University and the Writer_s Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York.

RAVI SHANKAR
Ravi Shankar, founding editor of the online journal for the arts Drunken Boat, and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University, has read at the National Arts Club, KGB, and The Ear Inn, has published or has work forthcoming in such venues as The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Time Out New York, The Massachusetts Review, Poets & Writers, Descant, The Iowa Review, Lit, and Crowd. He loathes bananas and cant, trundles asphodels, oil spills, refracts cultures, knows names. His first book of poems, Instrumentality, is due out in fall 2004.

EILEEN TABIOS
Eileen R. Tabios is the author of Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (Marsh Hawk Press). She has released a poetry CD and written, edited, or co-edited nine books of poetry, fiction and essays since 1996 when she traded in a finance career for poetry.