Issue 5

Issue 5 Spring 2010

Issue front list

Art

Daniel Elson

Born in northern Illinois, Daniel Elson has made props and animatronics for spook houses and theme parks, co-starred on a reality television series about torture for the History Channel, and sold the rights to his likeness to Cartoon Network.

Franz Wright

Franz Wright, born in Austria and educated at Oberlin College, received the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for his book of poetry Walking to Martha's Vineyard. Critics have praised Wright for his poetry, stating that, Wright oscillates between direct and evasive dictions, between the barroom floor and the arts club podium, from aphoristic aside to icily poetic abstraction.

Anthony Varallo

Anthony Varallo's short story collection, Out Loud, won the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press).

Nick Flynn
Nick Flynns recent book, The Ticking is the Bomb, is a memoir of bewilderment and becoming a father. His previous memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, translated into thirteen languages and won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He is the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether, and Blind Huber, and a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins.
Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett was born in Carmel, California to a Japanese mother and American father. Her Japanese family owns a Zen Buddhist temple where she often played as a child, and which, among other things, performs exorcisms.

Kelle Groom
Kelle Groom's memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.