Samuel Amadon was born in Hartford. His poems have appeared or will appear in such places as AMERICAN LETTERS & COMMENTARY, AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, CANARY, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, TYPO, & VERSE. He lives in New York. His ADVICE FOR YOUNG COUPLES shares space with Dorothea Lasky in H_NGM_N FLIP/CHAP #1.

Daniel Becker is a husband, father, physician, wooden boat builder & graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA program in writing. He practices & teaches internal medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also directs the Center for Humanism in Medicine. He grew up in Miami. His chapbook, CHANCE, is out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS.

Joshua Beckman is the author of four books of poetry, and a fifth (SHAKE) is out from Wave Books.

Erica Bernheim was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy. She holds a B.A. from Miami University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Canary, Bridge, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, Court Green and Volt, among others. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches writing and literature and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY is forthcoming from the H_NGM_N Chapbook Series.

Jason Bredle is the author of A TWELVE STEP GUIDE, available from New Michigan Press. He lives in Chicago. www.knifemachine.com

Michael Broder received his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University in 2005. His work has appeared in La Petite Zine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Softblow, and Word for/ Word, as well as in the anthology This New Breed, and is forthcoming in BLOOM, roger, and Unpleasant Event Schedule. He is working on a doctorate in classical studies at the City University of New York and teaches in the classics department at Brooklyn College.

Tyler Carter has recently moved to New York City with his two cats, “Moses” & “José.” His chapbook “Egg Breakfast” is available from the horse less press & was reviewed in H_NGM_N #4. He has poems forthcoming in FENCE, & is currently working on a collaboration with Matt Turner for WHEREVER WE PUT OUR HATS.

Adam Clay ’s first book of poems, THE WASH, is forthcoming from Parlor Press. CANOE, a chapbook, is available from horse less press. Recent poems appear in DENVER QUARTERLY, IOWA REVIEW, and BARROW STREET . He co-edits TYPO and lives in Kalamazoo, MI.

Julia Cohen lives in Brooklyn &is the Marketing Director for Nightboat Books, a fiction reader for SMALL SPIRAL NOTEBOOK & an editorial assistant at Palgrave Macmillan. Her poems have been published in CWHOBB, HOW2, HANGING LOOSE, GUTCULT, BOOG CITY, WORD FOR/ WORD and PINDELDYBOZ & are forthcoming in OCTOPUS, THE TINY & AUGHT. Julia.Cohen@nightboat.org

Evan Commander is co-founder of the reading series clay poetry, and is the author of the chapbook, PLANET CARPET, published by Forklift, Ink. & reviewed in this issue of H_NGM_N. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FORKLIFT, OHIO, BOOG CITY & THE INCLINER. For the past two years he has been living and working in the gallery Publico in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a recent graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Michael Cross edited the anthology Involuntary Vision: after Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Avenue B, 2003), a direct byproduct of the New Brutalism reading series he founded and curated until leaving for the Poetics Program in Buffalo, New York in 2003. He is currently editing a volume of the collected George Oppen Memorial Lectures for the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University while pursuing a doctoral degree on the side. He publishes Atticus/Finch Chapbooks (www.atticusfinch.org), and his first full-length collection, in felt treeling, is forthcoming from Tucson, Arizona’s Chax Press.

Michael Donnelly was born on August 26, 1980. He lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend Dorothy, who introduced him to the idea of graphic literature.

Matt Dube is the fiction editor at H_NGM_N. He teaches English at William Woods University.

Monica Fambrough was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her poems & reviews can be found in BAFFLING COMBUSTIONS, AMERICAN WEDDINGS, OCTOPUS & WEIRD DEER among others. She lives in Seattle, Washington

Richard Fein has been published in many web & print journals & has an interest in digital photography.

Twilight Greenaway is a recent graduate of the MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Berkeley California.

Matt Hart is the editor of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including, The Canary, Lungfull! , Ploughshares, and Octopus. He is the author of the chapbook, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), and the full-length collection, Who’s Who Vivid, (Slope Editions, 2006), as well as the chapbook SONNET, (H_NGM_N B_ _KS, soon). He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Thomas Hummel ’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in CONJUNCTIONS, CROWD, DENVER QUARTERLY, FENCE, OCTOPUS, TYPO & elsewhere. He works for the Poetry Society of America & lives in Harlem.

Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis & currently lives in Boston, where she is pursuing her Ed.M from Harvard University. Her poems have appeared in LUNGFULL!, BOSTON REVIEW, CROWD & 6X6, among others. Her ART shares space with Samuel Amadon in H_NGM_N FLIP/CHAP #1.

Brad Liening is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in KONUNDRUM ENGINE LITERARY REVIEW & SWINK. He currently resides in Iowa City. Some of the poems in this issue are from KER-THUNK, his half of H_NGM_N FLIP/CHAP #2.

Bob Marcacci is a San Francisco State University graduate & native Californian presently living & writing in Beijing, China. He has published one chapbook & four e-books, with recent work appearing in BLAZEVOX, DUSIE, FIREWEED & PARAMETER. He also hosts the International Literary Open Mic at The Bookworm in Beijing every Wednesday evening. Check him out in more detail at <http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>.

Erin Martin has had poems recently featured in COCONUT, CWHOBB?, & TATTOO HIGHWAY. She is current pursuing an MFA at the University of Alabama.

Vincent Masterson currently lives in Tuscaloosa, AL, where he is finishing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He will begin doctoral studies at the Florida State University this fall.

Clay Matthews ’ work is published (or will be) in BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, COLUMBIA POETRY REVIEW, DRUNKEN BOAT, THE TINY, H_NGM_N, FORKLIFT and elsewhere. His chapbook, MUFFLER, is out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS. You can visit him on the web at < http://claymatthews.org >.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Red Bird & The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence. Pierrot Le Feu, an Epithalamium, a political play about the ongoing murders in Juárez, Mexico, is forthcoming in How2. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Action Books (www.actionbooks.org), a new press for poetry and translation, and Action, Yes (www.actionyes.org), a new webquarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. Currently on the faculty at the University of Alabama, she will be joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall 2006.

Richard Meier ’s second book of poetry, SHELLEY GAVE JANE A GUITAR, is forthcoming from Wave Books this fall. His first book, TERRAIN VAGUE, was selected by Tomaz Salamun for the Verse Prize and published in 2000.

Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including RATTLE, CRANKY, THEMA and others. He has a new novel, WE ARE BILLION-YEAR-OLD CARBON due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest poetry chapbooks are SHORT STORY AND OTHER SHORT STORIES (2006) and THE HEART IS OPEN (2006). Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband.

Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in MUSTACHIOED, DISPATCH, SEQUE, TURNTABLE + BLUE LIGHT & CRICKET, criticism in PARAMETER, THE FILM JOURNAL & PYRAMID, & a volume of verse, NOTEBOOK AND SHEAVES (AmErica House, 2002).

Sheila E. Murphy ’s most recent book is INCESSANT SEEDS (Pavement Saw Press, 2005). Her home is in Phoenix, Arizona.

Gina Myers lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits THE TINY with Gabriella Torres. The poems in this issue are from FEAR OF THE KNEE BENDING BACKWARDS, her half of H_NGM_N FLIP/CHAP #2.

Marci Nelligan holds an MFA from Mills College & a trophy for skeet shooting. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: CHAIN, DUSIE, VERSE, SYLLOGISM, FREE LUNCH & the WALRUS. She was the recipient of a Writers on Site grant from Poets & Writers & lives in Ann Arbor, MI, where she works as a freelance writer & tutors kids at 826 Michigan.

Daniel Nester is the author of God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press, 2003) & God Save My Queen II (2004), both collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen, as well as The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006). His creative work has appeared in jubilat, Crazyhorse, Open City, Spoon River Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2003, among other places; he also writes for Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, and Bookslut. He publishes and edits the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule and is Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney’s . He is an assistant professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. You can find his website here.

Steve Orlen has published five books of poetry. The most recent is THIS PARTICULAR ETERNITY (Ausable Press). This fall, Ausable will publish THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1978-2005. He teaches at the University of Arizona and in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. He and his painter-wife Gail live in Tucson.

Pablo Peschiera has published poems, reviews, translations, and interviews. For three years he was the managing editor of GULF COAST. He once ran a chicken ranch on the edge of the Atacama desert, but currently lives on a dirt road in Michigan and works at Grand Valley State University.

Lance Phillips lives in Charlotte, NC and has published two books CORPUS SOCIUS and CUR ALIQUID VIDI, both from Ahsahta Press. For more info, check out http://lancephillips.blogspot.com.

Brett Price is a student at the University of Cincinnati, where he edits the undergraduate literary journal, SHORT VINE. He is co-curator of Clay Poetry, a reading series in Cincinnati. He lives with his cat, Lady.

Henry Samelson was born in San Antonio, Texas. He received his MFA in Painting and New Media from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. His work has been exhibited in Boston at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Miller Block Gallery, The Mills Gallery, Green Street Gallery, among other venues. His work can also be found on The White Columns Art Registry in New York (www.whitecolumns.org), NeoImages (www.neoimages.net), and on his own website (www.henrysamelson.net).

Richard Scheiwe attended the University of Chicago, Loyola University, and The New School, from which he received his MFA in poetry. His reviews and poetry have appeared in Octopus, Verse, 96 INC, and elsewhere. Currently he edits Sink Review.

Fred Schmalz is a poet and publisher of the literature and art journal swerve. His poems have appeared in jubilat, Conduit, Divide, Forklift Ohio and other magazines. Schmalz’s chapbook Ticket was published by Fuori Editions in 2002. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the dancer Lillian Stillwell.

J.D. Schraffenberger is the winner of SEATTLE REVIEW’S 2005 Poetry Contest; other work of his appears in the ENGLISH JOURNAL and THE LOUISVILLE REVIEW. He is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at Binghamton University, the editor of HARPUR PALATE, and co-director of Binghamton’s annual creative writing conference, Writing By Degrees.

Peter Jay Shippy is the author of THIEVES’ LATIN (University of Iowa Press). His eBook ALPHAVILLE will be available from BlazeVOX Books in 2006. New poems can be found in AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, COLORADO REVIEW and POOL. He teaches at Emerson College.

Jen Tynes lives in Providence, Rhode Island and edits horse less press. She is the author of one book of poetry, THE END OF RUDE HANDLES (Red Morning Press), and her writing has recently appeared in Kulture Vulture, CutBank, Cannibal, and Diagram.

Jon Woodward lives & works in the Boston area. His second book of poems, RAIN, is forthcoming from Wave Books in fall 2006.

Jake Adam York is the author of Murder Ballads, selected by Jane Satterfield for the Fifth Annual Elixir Press Awards Judge’s Prize. His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Diagram, Octopus, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Visiting Walt (Iowa University Press, 2003) and Digerati (Three Candles, 2006).