is an editor and freelance writer in the greater Los Angeles area where she takes great pleasure in learning about new things. Her creative work has appeared in several creative writing collections. For more on Sarah, please visit: www.dthroughz.com.
Current Occupants
Paul Fattaruso
is the author of Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf (Soft Skull Press). His poems have appeared in jubilat, Fence, Volt, Open City, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. He’s currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver.
Chris Forsythe
lives and works in Brooklyn. His work is mainly concerned with exploring the limits and usage of sound as music and the guitar as a sound-generating device. He is a founding member of psi. Other activities include the “small speakers” project Wrasses; a long running collaboration with Ernesto Diaz-Infante; the mysterious and rarely spotted quartet Phantom Limb & Bison; duo with Chris Heenan; and the civil twilight cover band Dirty Pool. He has performed in many corners of the US and Europe in all manner of venue. Also check out: www.evolvingear.com.
Alyson Fox
makes things from paper, fabric, books, ceramics, thread, wallpaper, office supplies, photographs, old tattered things, new polished things, furniture, and cement. She has degrees in photography, sculpture, and installation art. She enjoys designing things for commercial ends and designing things for no end at all. Alyson is currently working on a series of drawings depicting strange half stories and invented family histories. She also just recently launched “ a small collection”, which is a line of sustainable clothing. Alyson lives and works in Austin Tx. Visit her website at Alyson Fox.com.
Christopher Fritton
is the Head of The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Histrionics, a division of the Performance Thanatology Research Society. He is also a member of BUFFFLUXUS, a group dedicated to the maintenance of ephemera. He lives, breathes, eats, sleeps, and edits the assembling Ferrum Wheel in Buffalo, NY.
Cullen Goldblatt
is a poet and a translator living in New York. Some of his work has been previously published in the Cape Town-based Pan-African journal Chimurenga. His essay describing his process of researching Aafia Siddiqui’s disappearance, and his writing of the resulting poem (“Night Music”), was published in Left Turn magazine in May 2007.
Rama Gottfried
comes from a family with a long history of involvement in the arts: from circus performers and abstract expressionist painters, to rock guitar players, interior decorators and Romanian gypsies. As a child he first studied Indian Bhajan style tabla and harmonium, and later orchestral percussion, turntables, guitar and dismantled electronics which he performs with currently. Interest in visual art and and theater gradually gave way to a holistic composition process.
Ben Greenman
is the writer, journalist and editor based in New York. He is the author the short story collections, Superbad and Superworse, and the novel, A Circle Is A Balloon and Compass Both. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Zoetrope All Story, and Opium Magazine. His bi-monthly humor pieces appear on the website, Gawker. Visit his website at Ben Greenman.com.
Garth Risk Hallberg
is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His writing has appeared most recently in Glimmer Train, Canteen, The Pinch, Slate, and in the anthology Best New American Voices 2008.
Ted Hearne
is a composer and performer in New York and Chicago. He is the artistic director of Yes is a World, a nonprofit organization working to promote peace and social change through new music, the resident conductor of New York’s Red Light New Music, and the composer-in-residence of the Chicago Children’s Choir. Recent performances of his music include premieres by Newspeak, and by Charleston’s New Music Collective. This November, the Minnesota Orchestra will perform his rousing Patriot. Ted directed the premiere of David Lang’s opera Anatomy Theatre and the UK production of The Carbon Copy Building, the Obie-winning comic book opera by Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Michael Gordon. He has worked with ICE, Ridge Theatre and Australia’s Opera IHOS, conducted premieres by Beat Furrer, Fabien Levy, Anna Clyne and Jenny Olivia Johnson, and will be seen as music director of Michael Gordon’s Lightning At Our Feet this December at BAM. He recently premiered the role of Justin in Jacob Cooper’s mind-altering Timberbrit. Ted’s newest album Katrina Ballads was digitally released on New Amsterdam in August 2008 in honor of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Scored for 16 musicians and singers, the hour-long work is a genre-defying call to remembrance and homage to American music, featuring some of new music’s finest performers.