Ida Acton is an artist who ransacks all genres in an attempt to find new ways and places for words.  Words are Ida's gift and affliction.  Ida is a veteran of Sister Spit and of the 1990s as an artistic decade who is currently regrouping and letting go of the idea that there needs to be any significant difference between poetry and prose.  Ida also knows that sad and happy are the same and different.  Both and Neither and Always.

DROBOT! is made up of brothers: Matthew, Adrian and Isaiah Alexander. They do many things but among them is making digital field recordings, manipulating the sound and bending it to their will. Matthew is a member of “Lethality Scale” http://www.reverbnation.com/lethalityscale and Adrian plays folk/americana as “Noodles Alexander” http://www.reverbnation.com/noodlesalexander.

Rebecca Alexander is (among other things) a library assistant, animator, and aspiring kids' book writer living in San Francisco.

César Alvarez is a Brooklyn based composer, songwriter, producer, writer and sound artist. César was awarded a Meet The Composer/Van Lier Fellowship for young Latino composers in 2004. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, received a B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory, and an MFA from Bard College in Music/Sound. He's been performing and touring with his band The Lisps  for over three years. The Lisps have been featured by NPR, Spin, Time Out New York, CMJ, and included as one of L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands to Watch," in 2008. César recently debuted his sci-fi Civil War musical for The Lisps, FUTURITY. He teaches recording and electronic music at Bloomfield College in NJ. César's blog/website can be found at www.musicisfreenow.org.

Brent Armendinger is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Archipelago (Noemi Press) and Undetectable (forthcoming from New Michigan Press).  He is currently working on the Poem-Booth Project; for more information, call 1-877-eat-poem from the nearest payphone.  He teaches at Pitzer College in Claremont, California and regularly orbits San Francisco.

Lily Baldwin is an artist, dancer and choreographer based in New York City. Her work has been presented at various galleries, festivals and performance venues. She has had the pleasure of working with artists including The Trisha Brown Dance Company, Ray Tintori, Anne Carson, David Neumann, Doug Varone, Noemie Lafrance, Faye Driscoll and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Currently she can be seen performing with David Byrne on his world tour supporting the new album with Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Check out www.LilyBaldwin.com for more details.

John Biando rocks the cradle of liberty in Philadelphia, where he was voted “most patriotic” in 2002 and 2008.  He runs a grasshopper and boxelder bug rescue that serves the northeastern United States, and his remobilizing BOXcar system has radically expanded the lifespans of amputee insects.  His work has appeared in Textsound, Dogzplot, The Nimble Few, Prick of the Spindle and Cellar Roots.  He recently published a long illustrated poem called My Boyfriend’s Back: A Zombie Love Story.

Mary Burger's books include Sonny (Leon Works, 2005) and A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth, 2008).  A collection of prose writings, Then Go On, is in press.  Mary lives in Oakland and studies landscape architecture.

Catherine Daly is author of eight books, three available in digital format.  One of her forthcoming books is Craft + Work, which will contain this rug project.  One of the many LA Art Girls, she created the text object for LAAGAFBLA08 (LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale Los Angeles, 2008) at Phantom Galleries in the Pacific Electric Lofts Building.

Dillon De Give, Brooklyn NY, creates site-specific situations and elementary school style plays. His work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, the Transmodern Festival Baltimore, Versionfest Chicago, and in various NYC parks. He studied film at Northwestern University.

Return as an Animal is Bruno Dicolla's second short film and has been selected in shift dot mov festival, Lumen Eclipse, and Galeria Polinésia.

Jacob I. Evans is a writer and an artist who used to live in San Francisco, used to work as an editor of textbooks, and used to work as a book designer and editor for Small Desk Press. He now sits and writes in the hills of Echo Park in Los Angeles and plans to leave the country very soon. He has published work in Nocturnes (re)View, Watchword, Parthenon West Review, Fourteen Hills, and the Men seeking Women section of Craigslist. His chapbook "I haven't been thinking about you at all lately" is forthcoming in 2009 from the San Francisco based Books and Bookshelves new chapbook imprint.

Ariel Goldberg is interested in information consumption and communication. She works with text, performance and photography. Recent work has appeared in P-Queue, With + Stand, and Try! magazine.

Artist/writer Craig Goodworth received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Liberal Studies in Sustainable Communities through Northern Arizona University. He has also spent time traveling through Europe and as an artist-in-residence at an Eastern Orthodox monastic community in rural northern New Mexico. Currently, he is working on a collection of writings through the Tom Mullen Writing Fellowship at the Earlham School of Religion.  His practice is not committed to any one media, but to an interdisciplinary, integrative approach placing images, objects, artifacts and words in dialog with one another.  Being raised in Arizona’s Sonoran desert formed an early intrigue within him for the relationship between himself and the paradoxically intimate and indifferent qualities of the desert’s environment. This continues to influence his art as he seeks to explore spiritual landscapes through material ones.

Judith Jordan is dead. Judith Jordan never lived. Judith Jordan sung trashy songs at crappy clubs until the drummer had to pack up and go. Judith Jordan wrote a book. This is part of one chapter. The rest is called The Last Days of Dolly and S.L.A.P.

Jeremy Krane loves his fiancée and their dog. He lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida and works as a technical writer.

Miranda Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press) and Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). Her various works have appeared in various publications including most recently Modern Painters, The Believer, Denver Quarterly, and The Future Hygenic (Pistol Press). She also teaches variously, most recently at University of Chicago and California College of the Arts.

Zoë McCloskey is an artist best know for her whimsically loaded street and site-specific work. She has spent extended time in Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, China, and Spain and is associated with the artist collectives, LoCurativo (NYC), Vagon Hermosa (Argentina), CyberPunkApocalypse Writers Collective (Pittsburgh PA) and Little Paper Planes (.com). Her most recent work is about helpless texts, the intentions of, and ways in which we fall short of the ability to express. She currently lives in Chicago and co-runs her home as a creative event space (Loft3a). more: www.zoemccloskey.net, flickr.com/zoebeth

Christian Nagler lives in San Francisco where he teaches fiction writing and art and social practice. Recently he has been performing with Anna Halprin's Sea Ranch Collective. He organizes the Real Time Ethics reading/performance series with Nonsite Collective and co-coordinates, with Amanda Eicher, the Colima Project, an agricultural oral history project in El Salvador. In March 2009 he was recipient of a Wallace Foundation fellowship. He is working on a novel and a book of essays.

Jesse Nathan is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the author of a chapbook of poems called Dinner. His work’s appeared in Adbusters, Tin House, The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. He is an associate editor at McSweeney’s publishing and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is a contributing editor at the Rumpus.

Tucker Nichols has had recent solo shows at ZieherSmith Gallery in New York, Lincart and Gallery 16 in San Francisco, and the Kunstpanorama in Luzern, Switzerland. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center and John Connelly Presents in New York, and Rocket Gallery in Tokyo. His drawings have been published in McSweeney's, J&L Books, The Thing, Nieves Books and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He was recently commissioned by the de Young Museum in San Francisco to be its first roving artist-in-residence. He is the founder of Anonymous Postcard. Nichols has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University. He lives near San Francisco.

Monica Regan is a San Francisco-based writer and visual artist, currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at SFSU.  Her poems have appeared in 26, Parthenon West Review, and the Big Ugly Review.  At the moment, Monica is obsessed with trash, neuroscience, and exploring the interplay between text and image.

Matt L. Rohrer is a writer and musician living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in Tinfish, Watchword, the Surfer’s Journal, and other publications. He is a founding editor of Small Desk Press, and works as a substitute teacher.  You can find his music at: www.myspace.com/goldenwestservice.

Celia Rowlson-Hall is a director and choreographer living in New York City. She is currently working on several music videos and short films, as well as telling one person a day for an entire year that they are beautiful. Celia is also a dancer with the Faye Driscoll Group and Monica Bill Barnes and Co.  www.celiarowlsonhall.com

Sunita Prasad makes films, videos, performances, and photographs in Brooklyn NY. She likes to employ exaggerated actions and incongruous attributes to make visual experiences that are unexpectedly relatable and warmly political. Her work has been shown at festivals, galleries, and performance venues nationwide, including the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival and Dixon Place as part of the HOT! Festival. She was born and raised in Syracuse NY and moved to New York City in 2001.

Planethead is the one-man band side project of artist/musician Greg R. Turner, an Oakland resident who is a member of the jalopy pop group Chantigs as well as many other projects with the Rodent Records collective in San Francisco. He is also a mixed media/collage artist that incorporates paper/found objects/broken things/everyday trash into art. Things out of nothing.