Marcia Aldrich is the author of the free memoir Girl Rearing, published by W.W. Norton and part of the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series. She has been the editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Companion to An Untold Story won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on Haze, a narrative of marriage and divorce during her college years. Her website: MarciaAldrich.com.

Barbara Bridger taught theatre and writing at Dartington College of Arts, becoming co-director of Writing in 2009. Her first script for live performance was performed in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and her most recent was performed at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden in 2013. Barbara Bridger’s digital films have been shown in the UK and internationally and her prose, poetry and critical writing have been published in a range of journals. In 2002 she won Prose Writer of the Year (Writers Incorporated) and she has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including Asham and Raymond Carver. At Dartington, Barbara Bridger helped to develop Scripted Media. This explored experimental approaches to script and scripting and her research also focuses on women’s writing and inclusive dramaturgical processes. You can find more of her work at independent.academia.edu/BarbaraBridger.

J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher, performer and maker of maps, zines, books, poetry, short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction, and non-linear, intertextual, hypermedia, and computer-generated narratives. Her pioneering works of digital literature have been exhibited, published, performed, and presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition (2003 & 2005), the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (2008). Her second book, GENERATION[S], a collection of code narratives, was published by Traumawien in 2010. In 2012 her web-based work CityFish was short-listed for the New Media Writing Prize in Bournemouth, UK, and the Electronic Literature Organization presented a retrospective of her work in Morgantown, WV, USA. She has served as a Digital Literature and Performance Writing faculty mentor for the In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge residency program at The Banff Centre since its inception in 2010. She was recently awarded a PhD from University of the Arts London. She lives in South Devon, England. luckysoap.com

The New York Times declared Jennifer Curtis “an artist of keen intelligence and taste.” An improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, she has been a featured soloist in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Brazil’s Teatro Amazonas, Peru’s Teatro Municipal, and Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes. She plays on a 1777 Vincenzo Panormo violin.

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squidand Its First Photographer , Pot Farm, and Barolo, the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and 2 chapbooks. His essay collection/cookbook, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, is forthcoming November 2015 from W.W. Norton: Liveright. He teaches at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction Editor of Passages North. This winter, he tempered his gin with two droplets (per 750ml) of tincture of odiferous whitefish liver. For health.

Jenny Goldstick is a designer, illustrator, researcher, and writer. You can find more of her work at jennifergoldstick.com

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines, and writes for The Oxford American, The Believer, and Earth Island Journal. She has performed across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and teaches creative nonfiction at UNC-Chapel Hill. Visit her website at www.StephanieElizondoGriest.com.

Eric LeMay's latest book is In Praise of Nothing. You can find more of his work at ericlemay.org.

Danyelle Morrow is a photographer, graphic designer, and writer. She was employed as a staff photographer at The State News for two years, and has since become an avid tea and coffee drinker.

Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey & has taught at the University of Alabama since receiving his M.F.A. in 2009. His work has been anthologized in Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 2, 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction, & has been twice selected as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays series. He is the author of So You Know It’s Me, a collection of Craigslist Missed Connections, & Level End, a series of lyric essays about videogame Boss Battles. He is also the author of Come See For Yourself, originally published in The Fullness of Everything with Christopher Newgent & Tyler Gobble. Come See For Yourself is available in its entirety online on Google Maps. Excerpts from his newest book, Leave Luck to Heaven, have been published in such journals as Sonora Review, Conjunctions, Hotel Amerika, & DIAGRAM, as well as served as inspiration for “Another Castle,” an art installation by L’etablissment en face in Brussels, Belgium during September of 2012, which featured art from Juan Muñoz, Luciano Fabro, & Claes Oldenburg. A memoir, titled “i/o,” will be released in 2015 by Civil Coping Mechanisms. He is at work on several projects, including a series of micrononfiction about pop songs, a series of lyric essays about professional wrestlers, and a translation project about marathons. Email Brian at beoliu@gmail.com as well as follow him on twitter @beoliu.

Renita Romasco is an independent performer/choreographer. She is interested in silence, gesture and the use of improvisation in her work.

Phillip Russell is an undergraduate student at Michigan State University where he studies English with a concentration in Creative Writing as well as a minor in Japanese. He published his first personal essay when he was procrastinating to write a college final. To his friends’ dismay it bolstered his big-headedness. A trait he’d discovered in the Bahamas, in a taxi, as he waited for paramedics to free his head between the car’s two front seats. His work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Crunchable, HyperText Magazine, and Dialogual.

Joseph Spellman, MS is Winery Sommelier for JUSTIN Vineyards and Winery. He has worked with wine since 1979, principally as a sommelier, in Chicago’s top restaurant cellars, including Tango, Maxim’s, The Pump Room, The Park Hyatt Hotel, and Charlie Trotter’s. He has been a leading wine educator, writer, and consultant, and has led wine seminars in the US, UK, Japan, and Australia. He earned the prestigious Master Sommelier Diploma, the 29th American to do so, in 1996. He is a frequent instructor and examiner in the Court of Master Sommeliers, and in 2005 was elected Chairman of the American Chapter of the Court. Another rare achievement was winning the 1997 French Sommelier Competition in Paris sponsored by SOPEXA, and the title “Best Sommelier in the World in French Wines and Spirits.” He is only the second American to have done so. In the following year (1998) he was named the Bon Appetit Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year.

Jill Talbot is the author of Loaded: Women and Addiction, co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Brevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, The Normal School, Passages North, The Paris Review Daily, The Pinch, Seneca Review, and more. Her memoir, The Way We Weren't, will be published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull in Summer 2015.

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