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mhani alaoui is a Casablanca-based writer and anthropologist. Her first novel, Dreams of Maryam Tair, received the Independent Publisher Book Award and the Indiefab Award. After ten years of living up and down the American East Coast, she moved to Paris and settled for a little while on the Rive Gauche, where reading and writing were still part of the romance of the everyday. She now lives in Casablanca, the city she grew up in.

anne milano appel has been awarded the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Proze for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Award for Translation–Fiction. She has translated works by Claudio Magris, Primo Levi, Giovanni Arpino, Paolo Giordano, Roberto Saviano, Giuseppe Catozzella, and numerous others. Translating professionally since 1996, she is a former library director and language teacher.

tom cantwell's fiction has appeared in American Literary Review, Flyway, New Ohio Review, and a handful of other journals. He holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Tom lives with his wife and two children in Eugene, OR, where he is at work on a novel.

jacqueline de jong was one of the first women to participate in the avant-garde Situationist International movement following World War II, and was the founder of The Situationist Times (1961–1967), a radical journal devoted to the exploration of topology. She is a key link between the Cobra and Situationist movements and their contemporary legacy. De Jong's "War" series commemorates World War I through the lens of an artist whose childhood was marked by the chaos of the Second World War.

daniele del giudice's novels and shorter narrative works include Lo stadio di Wimbledon, Atlante occidentale, Nel museo di Reims, Staccando l'ombra da terra, Mania, Orizzonte mobile, and I racconti. He has published essays on Italo Svevo, Thomas Bernhardt, Robert. L. Stevenson and Primo Levi. He co-authored, with Marco Paolini, I-TIGI, Canot per Ustica, the text for a theatrical performance about the tragedy of the DC-9 Itavia that mysteriously plunged into the sea in 1980. His works have won numerous awards and have been translated into sixteen languages. Del Giudice lives in Venice, where he has taught theatrical literature at the Theatre Faculty of the IUAV.

ben dolan grew up in The Woodlands, TX. He currently lives in Albuquerque, where he teaches high school English.

ulrike draesner was born in 1962 in Munich, Germany, and is one of the country's most prominent authors. She has won the Joachim-Ringelnatz-Prize for Poetry, the Roswitha Prize, the Bremer Netzresidenz, and the Solothurner Literature Prize. Draesner is a poet, a writer of long and short fiction, and a translator of French and Anglo-American poetry. She has been awarded poetic readerships at Middlebury College, the Universities of Kiel, Birmingham, Mainz, and Bamberg, and sometimes teaches as a professor for Creative Writing at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut Leipzig. The poems here are from Subsong, her most recent book of poetry.

adam dressler is assistant editor of Parnassus. His poems have appeared in the New Criterion, Raritan, and Yale Review.

william fargason's poetry has appeared in New England Review, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, Rattle, New Orleans Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He received two awards from the Academy of American Poets and a scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in poetry at Florida State University. He lives with himself in Tallahassee, FL.

casey fitzsimons has poems in print and online in Red Wheelbarrow, Mezzo Cammin, and numerous other journals. She has had first-place awards from Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, (San Francisco) Bay Area Poets Coalition, and Ina Coolbrith Circle. She has published twelve chapbooks, including The Sharp Edges of Knowing and Against the Familiar Wall. Her reviews of Bay Area exhibitions appeared in Artweek, and her studio drawing book, Serious Drawing, was published by Prentice Hall. She has a master's degree in Fine Arts from San José State University. [End Page 188]

bernadette geyer is a writer, editor, and translator living in Berlin, Germany. She is the author of the poetry collection The Scabbard of Her...

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