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Paul Bibeau grew up reading Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, and the scary parts of the Bible. He writes a blog of horror and dark humor at Goblin Books. He is an exile from Brooklyn but has Flatbush in his heart. He still believes no matter how late it is or drunk you are, the Williamsburgh Bank Building will guide you to your destination. |
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Cakeskling thinks of ideas and executes them. Cakeskling is a general creator, focused on Creative Strategy, Media, Publishing, Creative Production, Art Direction and Business Consulting. Cakeskling has recently worked producing Self Evident Truths; publishing a book, Kisser, for The Standard hotels; Art Directing a music video for Lloyd Banks featuring 50 Cent; and, developing Digital Strategy for magazines such as Vs. Magazine. |
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Ames John Gigounas was born in Patras, Greece, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is based in Brooklyn and founded The Brooklyner Group in 2011. New short work is forthcoming in the 2011 Press 53 Open Fiction Awards Anthology, judged by Stefanie Freele, and Monkeybicycle. Ames received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. For more updates about his writing and other blathering, visit his personal website or follow him on Twitter. |
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Mardi Jaskot was born and raised in Hawaii. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Puget Sound and her MFA from The City College of New York, where she won the Graduate Award for Children’s Literature. She was selected to participate in Larry Mcmurtry’s Archer City Writers Retreat, and invited to read for CUNY’s Turnstyle Reading Series. She is the curriculum and instructor advisor and teacher for Poetry Outreach, a program that sends writers into New York public schools. Mardi’s work has appeared in Promethean, SynApse, and Poetry In Performance. She has participated in readings around the city, including The Perch and Slideshow Reading Series. |
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Ayana Mathis received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she studied with Marilynne Robinson, Paul Harding and Lan Samantha Chang. She is the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the Workshop. Her nonfiction has appeared in Glamour magazine, Essence, La Cucina Italiana and the Village Voice. Her debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, is forthcoming with Knopf. |
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Vera Miao is an actor, writer, troublemaker, nonprofit consultant, and New York expat, in no particular order. She has appeared in numerous plays, films and TV shows, including NCIS, Brothers & Sisters, CSI: Miami, NUMB3RS, Greek, and Important Things with Demetri Martin. She can also be seen in the sci-fi feature, 2K3, a selection of the Independent Film Labs and the Sundance Institute. Vera is working on a pre-apocalyptic feature film she co-wrote, and her webseries, Mission: Rebound, about the comic misadventures of two girls burned by love. She is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company Conservatory Program, formed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. |
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Susannah Mills worked in LA before heading south to Chapel Hill, where she joined Eric Watson in a collaborative guest lecture presentation for Paul Jones’s honor’s class at UNC. Following, Mills discussed screenwriting in journalist Neil Shea‘s writing class at Furman University, where she met South Carolina fiddler Nick Hallman. Mills shot a documentary intended for the web about Hallman’s life and music, which is currently in post production. |
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Antonia Murphy crossed the Pacific on a 36’ sailboat in 2007. During that time, she wrote numerous travel articles for Sail, Cruising World, and Latitude 38. She now lives in New Zealand, where she’s just completed her first book, ROUGH AS GUTS: Exploring New Zealand by Land and Sea. You can check out what she has to say about Marmite, dags and Tantric hippies at s/v Sereia. |
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Nina Nastasia released her first album Dogs in 2000. Famed DJ John Peel called it “astonishing,” after receiving a copy from Steve Albini. Peel began playing songs from the album on his BBC Radio show. The album and Nastasia gained a cult following. Nastasia has released six albums, one in collaboration with Jim White (2007). All albums have been recorded by Albini, who has ardently praised her music in numerous interviews. Nastasia recorded six sessions for John Peel’s show. The last was recorded with Tuvan throat singing group Huun-Huur-Tu. The single “Cry, Cry, Baby” was released internationally in May 2010, followed by her sixth studio album, Outlaster. |
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Raimy Rosenduft was born into a tribe of fatalistic Jews from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Her parents sold cookies in a flea market when she was little. She was their mascot. There is a long list of jobs and accomplishments she could list for you. Instead, she would like you to know that she is fond of words, sounds, infographics, flea markets, microfiber, kale and puppies. If she likes you, she will make you a mixtape. |
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Neil Shea is a writer based in Europe. He is an editor-at-large for the Virginia Quarterly Review and a frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine. He has also written for other publications, including The American Scholar, The Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. See his work here. |
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J. Scott Singer may not exist and is the author of a joke on a joke entitled Guy Walks into a Bar, published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on, ominously, 1/11/11. More to come. |
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Ryan Steadman is an artist, curator, and critic living in Brooklyn. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Envoy, New York and Baumgartner, New York, and he has curated shows at O•H+T, Boston and 106 Green, Brooklyn. You can read his writing via Paper Monument, the print journal of contemporary art published in association with n+1, and see his painting here. |
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Jeremy Tescher is a boring unknown. He holds an MA in Contemporary American Literature from Brooklyn College and has spent the past several years nine-to-fiving it at one of New York’s major publishing houses. He is a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn. He lives near there still, grown up, with his wife and daughter. |
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Amelia Tovey is a New York based Australian filmmaker whose work focuses on documentary realism, social commentary and live musical performance. For the past 5 years Amelia has explored her own everyday life, and the lives of others, in a very simple lo-fi way; camera in hand. Her joint online initiative Shoot The Player takes inspiration from the French project Take Away Shows, exploring the possibility of an internationally accessible online cinema. Her recent collaboration; Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America is an award-winning multimedia project documenting queer life across America; featured in The New York Times and premiering on NPR and in Time Magazine in July 2011. Amelia has presented her work and lectured in Australia, the USA and Germany, and was a recipient of the British Council’s Big Green Idea Award and the Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship. She has recently worked as a freelance producer for Levis Strauss & Co, Microsoft, Yahoo and Kogeto. Visit Amelia’s website. |
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Eric Watson produced his first feature, π, in 1995. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 and earned Watson an IFP/West Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. His film Requiem for a Dream earned Watson another IFP/West Spirit Award nomination for Best Feature and was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2000 by The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.Watson began his career as a Broadcast Communication Arts major at San Francisco State and continued with Motion Picture Production at the American Film Institute, where he was awarded the Mary Pickford Scholarship for Excellence in Producing. Watson first met and collaborated with director Darren Aronofsky and cinematographer Matthew Libatique at AFI. Watson recently produced What’s Wrong With Virginia, starring Liam Neeson and Jennifer Connelly, and written by Academy Award Winner Lance Black (Milk, Big Love). He is working with writer and producer Susannah Mills on a collaborative narrative project for The Brooklyner Web. |
