Neelanjana Banerjee's writing has been published in the Asian Pacific American Writers' Journal, Kitchen Sink, Nimrod, Ellipsis, Suspect Thoughts and others. She is putting the finishing touches on her MFA thesis for San Francisco State University, a collection of short fiction entitled "Misbehaving." She also works as an editor and journalist for non-profit media organization New America Media and Hyphen magazine.
David Beavers was born in Santa Rosa, and lives and works in San Francisco. He never considered himself a "city person" until he moved there, and has developed a growing obsession to write about sprawling, mythical cities and the bored, lonely, or interesting people who inhabit them. He lives in the Sunset District, which is a much more fascinating place than you might think it is.
San Francisco writer David Christensen is impressed by the ease with which men express their erotic desires in Craigslist’s men-seeeking-men personal ads. In “Craigslist Studies,” texts collide with Web confessions. “Men,” one of the studies, appears in ZYZZYVA issue #78. Mr. Christensen’s work is also included in Gertrude journal (2005 and 2006) and the anthologies Inside Him, Underground Voices, and I Do / I Don’t: Queers on Marriage, and the Marjorie Wood Gallery (www.marjoriewoodgallery.com) features “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission,” an illustrated text exhibit.
Amanda Davidson wonders if people are broken. Her writing has been published in Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing, the Marjory Wood Gallery, The SF Bay Guardian and elsewhere. With Judith Jordan, she publishes a pants-pocket-sized zine called Parted in the Middle. Find out more at partedinthemiddle.com.
Faye Driscoll is a BAX/Brooklyn Arts exchange Artist-in-Residence 2005-2007, a HERE Artist in Resident 2007 and was a January 2005 recipient of the Union Street Dance Space Grant in Brooklyn. Her first evening length work Wow Mom, Wow premiered at Dance New Amsterdam April 2007. Her choreography was featured in Young Jean Lee’s Church at PS122 and will be seen in this August at the Michigan Womyn’s Festival. A member of Doug Varone and Dancers 2000-2002. She has a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts and is a frequent Guest Artist Teacher at Dance New Amsterdam.
Renee Evans was born and raised in Southern Virginia and currently resides in the Bay Area. She received her MFA in fiction from Bard College in 2006 and is the author of the prose chapbook, How it Burned, and the comic book series The Secret Life. Renee spends her spare time making books, checking the mail, cutting up instructional manuals and medical textbooks, and her indentured time as a line cook in San Francisco.
Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary video artist. She works with the stuff of popular entertainment to map the complexities of various emotional states, such as fear, melancholy, courage, obsession. She studies these conditions and builds intimate and absurd narratives to understand them by. Her work has shown at White Columns in New York, Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Video Festival, and the Festival Tous Courts International Festival of Cinema. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. You can see examples of her work at karahearn.com.
Judith Jordan can be reached at velcro.buttons@gmail.com. Pocket Myths published her short story "Skylla" in their Odyssey anthology last year; snippets of her poetry are up at the Lodestar Quarterly and SomArts Review; a critical essay appeared in The Abolitionist; she was a resident artist at the Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts (2005); and Prestel is planning to publish one of her interviews in the Learning to Love You More collection this fall.
Aaron Labaree is a writer living in New York City.
Jessica Lawless is a video artist, activist, and educator living in Los Angeles by circumstance more than choice. Lawless earned a MA in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and an MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine. She currently teaches Media Studies at Pitzer College.
Cultural worker turned anarchist public intellectual "Mollie" is a whopping seven months old. She has graduated from wishing for revolution in everyday life to creating it in at least her first and second lives, and quite possibly her third through seventh lives as well. A former committee member in the allegorical yet very real Internet Liberation Front, she lives in a comfy yet decrepit virtual flat with several rocking chairs, where she nourishes a very keen submissive appetite. She has a budding plot afoot involving a very pernicious form of reverse entrism (take over your life, then start something), and looks forward to the day when even those pesky sapien things will be free.
Juliana Mundim is a filmmaker and artist. Lately she has been traveling the world making videos, photos and drawings for the project www.pocketfilmsfortravelers.com. Juliana´s works have been presented at places such as Resfest, VideoBrasil and Sandplay Shibuya. She also created the virtual faqmagazine.net, curated the show "Ways to see places and landscapes" for the Centro Cultural Telefônica at Lima, Peru and published a bookzine with L'Imprimante in France - among others. She lives and works betwen New York and Sao Paulo.
Kirthi Nath is an award winning South Asian filmmaker, writer, educator and curator. As an artist, her body of inspired creative work fluidly straddles genres, occupying a fertile hybrid landscape of cultural poetics, experimentalism, and hybrid narrative. Tactile and dreamlike, her work explores female subjectivity, memory, desire, and racial and sexual identities. Nath’s films have shown in several festivals and events including a solo show at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Moondance International Women's Festival, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, Berkeley Women of Color Festival and Ladyfest (Olympia, Scotland, Bay Area and Texas). As an educator, Kirthi teaches video at the Bay Area Video Coalition to marginalized youth communities and is constantly exploring multiple ways of empowering young people to become both producer and audience; to understand genre and go beyond it. Kirthi’s curational work reflects her interest in promoting women, people of color, youth and queer perspectives. Also an active member in the art community, Kirthi has appeared on several panels, been guest juror for film festivals.
Katina Papson is an interdisciplinary artist/educator/curator who is a recent MFA graduate at the CaliforniaCollege of the Arts. She received a double degree BFA in Computer Design and Photography as well as in K-12 Arts Education.
Papson is a strong advocate for youth and community arts. She has taught, organized and writen many a grant for a non-profit youth arts organization called Youth Action Coalition from 1999 until 2003. This work led into five years of teaching photography, visual art, and social justice performance at AmherstRegionalHigh School in Amherst, Massachusetts. During this time, Papson started after-school programs at the high school and advised the class of 2005. From 2002 until 2005, Papson worked as Administrative Director for Deerfield Academy Summer Arts Camp, an alternative interdisciplinary summer arts camp for youth, ages 11 to 1.
In 2005, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her career as an artist and continue her youth work. Since moving to California, Papson has been hired by World Savvy as an Artist Mentor and more recently as their Media Arts Program Coordinator. World Savvy is an educational not-profit whose mission is to raise youth awareness of international affairs through the arts.
Katina Papson’s choices of media range from photography to video, performance to social practice as well as pirate radio. With great interest in social/relational art forms, she creates works that eliminate laws of profit by replacing them with free interchanges creating open-to-the-public collaborations. Papson was born and raised in the Bronx, New York and currently lives in San Francisco, California.
"Rosa" is a midget manic depressive anarchist avatar, and a passionate materialist. She rejects the notion that each avatar has some form of "controlling human" as superstitious nonsense for which no avatar can produce direct evidence beyond testimony of a bizarre form of imaginative telepathy they claim to have with these supernatural entities. She was born on the 28th of January 2007 and is therefore, at time of writing, approximately three months old. She enjoys flying, sadomasochism, chocolate, construction work, arbitrary lists, and calling people "darling" instead of "comrade" at important meetings. In the words of great writers down the ages, "will that do"?
Camille Roy is a writer and performer of plays, poetry, and fiction. Her two most recent books are Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, from 2nd Story Books (both 2002). Her book Swarm (two novellas) was published by San Francisco's Black Star Series with funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity and the anthology Biting the Error (Coach House, 2004). More information is available online at camilleroy.com.
Writer-filmmaker Single Beige Female(SBF) [http://www.singlebeigefemale.com] hails from London via Bombay and Paris and currently resides in her favourite city, San Francisco. She frequently moonlights as the human alter ego of the extraterrestial Micropixie (MPX)[http://www.micropixie.com] whose debut album Alice in Stevie Wonderland [http://www.aliceinsteviewonderland.com] tells the story of One Little Alien's mission on planet Earth to experience life as a human being.
Will Skinker lives in San Francisco and has published work in Mirage/Periodical, Ellipsis, Weigh Station, Shuffle Boil, The Night Palace (anth.), word for, word(online), and forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly, Morning Train(anth.), and in bookform soon from Auguste Press. He works as a gardener/mason but bricks frighten him.
Dan Thomas-Glass has been wondering lately about ideological specificity. He lives fifty yards from the Berkeley border with his fiancee Kate and their dog Layla.
Robin Tremblay-McGaw's work has appeared in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, HOW2, marks, Poetry Flash, Five Fingers Review, Mirage, and elsewhere. Currently she is at work on her dissertation which examines Bay Area Oppositional Writing. With Kathy Lou Schultz and Jim Brashear she edits Lipstick Eleven.
Sarah Fran Wisby is drawing a blank. She knows she has some accomplishments that should be mentioned here (they certainly shouldn't be mentioned anywhere else) but she can't take her eyes off the future, which is waving its tortured, blistering arms.
Sherri Lynn Wood is an interdisciplinary artist based in Durham NC. Part of her studio practice includes working with individuals and groups who are grieving to make improvisational quilts out of the clothing of the deceased. Her work utilizes public crafting along with theological notions of faith, voice, community and transformation as aesthetic vehicles for healing and social change. She will be traveling with the Mantra Trailer in 2008 as an itinerant quilt maker and “medicine woman,” recording mantras from people in neighborhoods across the country.