Biographical Notes
Shelly Corbett first met her husband Andrew Carson at the University of Washington were they were each pursuing photography degrees. They have always pursued many varied and artistic interests including metal sculpture, glass and painting, but photography remains their first love.
Abyssal Tarot, featured, is from a body of work referred to as the underwater project. It has been a labor of love for the past twenty years. During this time we have met many interesting people who have given of them selves and contributed to this project. Each time we photograph any model the goal is to capture first their portrait and together create beautiful, ethereal images that seem to be a glimpse into another world. The process of photographing underwater with a slow shutter speed and brilliantly colored cloth for a background creates a sense of a painting rather than photography. The water and its reflective surface create all photographic effects.
Jessica Fiorini is a poet currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a MFA in Film, Theatre and Communication Arts from the University of New Orleans. She is active in the NYC poetry community and has read at venues such as The Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, Battle Hill Series and the Zinc Series. Her work has appeared in such places as The Brooklyn Rail, The Boog Reader, Poetry Motel, Cock Now and Lungfull. She has one chapbook entitled Sea Monster at Night, published by Good-bye Better Books.
Mark DeCarteret’s work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. He was recently selected as Portsmouth New Hampshire’s seventh Poet Laureate.
Sarah Birl received her MA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Her previous chapbooks include s e w a g e r y (noPress), Letters to the Silence (Finishing Line Press), and A Journalistic Talisman Against the Preposterous (noPress). Some of her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in/on PFS Post, red lights, and Sous Rature. She is presently in the process of discovering discovery.
Andrew Demcak is an award-winning poet who has been widely published and anthologized both in print and on-line. His latest book of poetry is Zero Summer (BlazeVOX [books], NY, 2009.) His first poetry book, Catching Tigers in Red Weather (Three Candles Press, 2007), won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award. His poem Handhold (for a Zygote) won Goodread’s Newletter Poetry Contest. His poetry, including the poem Young Man With iPod (Poetry Midwest, #13), is taught at Ohio State University as part of its English 110.02 class, “The Genius and the Madman.” His poems/books have been featured recently at The Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Journal, Juked!, MiPOesias, Ginosko, elimae, Oranges & Sardines, and Pearl Magazine. Visit Andrew at: www.andrewdemcak.com.
Elizabeth Kate Switaj is the author of Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press), Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). She edits Crossing Rivers Into Twilight (www.critjournal.com) and Gender Across Borders (genderacrossborders.wordpress.com). For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
London Ontario performance poet Penn Kemp appears in arts festivals world-wide, as well as reading and giving workshops in local venues for four decades. Penn received her M.Ed. from OISE, Toronto). Since Coach House published her first book (1972), Penn has been expanding text and aural boundaries. Among her publications are twenty-five books (poetry and drama), ten CDs (Sound Opera and Performance Poetry) and six award-winning videopoems. The League of Poets proclaimed her a foremother of Canadian poetry. The University of Western Ontario has asked her to be writer-in-residence in London next year. Penn's Muse/News is updated monthly on www.mytown.ca/pennletters and www.myspace.com/pennkemp.
Brian Hardie was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He is 24, and has been writing poetry since the age of seven. His work has appeared in numerous small press lit journals in the states and over seas.
Jon Nehls graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a B.S. in Industrial Design. After graduating in 2005, he served three and a half years in the Peace Corps in Panama.
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