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Staff and Volunteer Bios Melissa R. Benham is the author of codeswitching (Subday Press), and surrealist object vs. narrated dream (self-published). Her work may (or will soon) be found in journals such as 3rd Bed, 3therefore2, Capilano Review, El Pobre Mouse, How2, Fourteen Hills, Nerve Lantern, One Less Magazine, Shampoo, Sleeping Fish, Small Town, Watching the Wheel: A Blackbird, and others. She holds a BA from SF State and an MFA in poetry from Naropa's Kerouac School, where she was the poetry editor for Bombay Gin 29 and received the Ted Berrigan poetry award. Presently she is working on her second book, Repronounceable. Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and resides in San Francisco. She is currently at work on a multi-media project of interviews she conducted with Israelis and Palestinians on the subject of home. For two years she served as resident writer and teacher of San Francisco School of the Arts Creative Writing Department. She is getting an MFA in fiction at Bard College and working on an upcoming novel. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. She is the author of the chapbook Touching New Jersey (Little Red Press) and the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction. Recent works can be read in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine, El Pobre Mouse, Shifter Magazine and Marjorie Wood Gallery. Brent Cunningham’s first book, Bird & Forest, was published in 2005 by Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Since 1999 he has worked for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley. He also serves as a board member for Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, where he helped found their annual Poets’ Theater Jamboree. Recent writing and visual art can be found in Onedit, Vanitas, Encyclopedia, Bay Poetics, and on his blog. As the co-founder of Hooke Press, he and Neil Alger have published delightful chapbooks by Norma Cole, Kevin Killian and Lauren Shufran. Neil Alger is the co-editor/founder of Hooke Press and an office jockey at Small Press Distribution. He has a degree in the lovely art of literature from Brown University, and was once nearly fluent in Spanish. That is no longer the case. Jay Thomas has had poetry published in vert, MiPOesias, and SPORE. In the summer of 2007, He completed his MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco, where he's also the webmaster for the university's online literary magazine Switchback. |
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