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ALEX ABRAMOVICH
is the closest thing Moistworks has to an editor. He lives and works in Astoria, Queens. His history of rock and roll is forthcoming from Penguin Books.
BENJAMIN ANASTAS
is the author of An Underachiever's Diary and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance.
EMILY BARTON
is the author of Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron.
ANDY BETA
writes in Brooklyn, New York and blogs at Imbidimts.
FRANKLIN BRUNO
is the author of Armed Forces, in Continuum Books' 33 1/3 series. He has recorded as a solo artist, in collaboration with The Mountain Goats and Jenny Toomey, and as one-third of Nothing Painted Blue, whose most recent release is 2005's Taste the Flavor (Shrimper). He has taught philosophy at UCLA and Pomona College, and is currently a visiting professor at Northwestern University.
JON CARAMANICA
writes for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice and Vice, among other places. He blogs, rarely, at Broken Language.
SUSAN CHOI
Susan Choi is the author of the novels The Foreign Student and American Woman.
GEOFF DYER'S
many books include But Beautiful, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, and, most recently, The Ongoing Moment.
WILL ENO
is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. His play THOM PAIN (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and has since been performed in many different languages and around the U.S. The past year, he has been at Princeton University, teaching playwriting, and as a Hodder Fellow. An excerpt of his play TRAGEDY: a tragedy appears in Harper's Magazine, this June. His plays are published by Oberon Books, in London, and by TCG, in the United States.
RICHARD GEHR
writes for Blender and The Village Voice. Richard Gehr is the "world music" columnist for eMusic.com. Richard Gehr co-wrote The Phish Book with the most important band of the nineties. Richard Gehr is an Oregon writer who lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
SAMANTHA GILLISON
is the author of the novels, The Undiscovered Country and The King of America. She lives in Brooklyn.
ROBERT GORDON
is the author of several books and documentary films. His books include Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters and It Came From Memphis, as well as two books about Elvis produced in cooperation with Elvis' estate. He was a Curator of the Barbican Centre's It Came From Memphis festival, in April 2005, and producer of the Al Green Anthology (for which his liner notes were Grammy nominated). He has written for magazines in the US and UK, contributed to several anthologies, and managed, for nearly two decades, to avoid jobs that would have him in rush hour traffic. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife and two daughters.
BEN GREENMAN
Ben Greenman is the author of several books of fiction, including Superbad, Superworse, and the new A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love. He is an editor at the New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn.
DAVID HARRELL
has released two albums with his Chicago indie rock band The Layaways and is readying a third disc for a late 2006 release. He blogs about the economics of online music distribution at Digital Audio Insider.
BRIAN HOWE
writes about music, books, art and cultcha for Pitchforkmedia, Paste Magazine, and NC's The Independent Weekly. His poems and sound art have appeared in a variety of print and online journals, including Soft Targets, Cannibal, Effing Magazine, Fascicle, McSweeneys.net, MiPoesias, Word for/Word, Apocryphal Text, Listenlight, Idiolexicon, and Octopus.
SHELLEY JACKSON
is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, hypertexts including the classic Patchwork Girl, several
children's books, and Skin, a story published in tattoos on the skin of 2095 volunteers. With the artist Christine Hill she is co-founder of the Interstitial Library, Circulating Collection. Shelley Jackson lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at the New School University. Her first novel Half Life is forthcoming from HarperCollins in July.
DAVID KNOWLES
is the author of Secrets of The Camera Obscura and The Third Eye.
JONATHAN LETHEM
is the author of The Fortress of Soitude, a novel, and The Disappointment Artist, a collection of essays. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.
GARY LUTZ
is the author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive.
SAM LIPSYTE
is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, and Home Land.
MEGAN MATTHEWS
brings great literature alive for today's mostly indifferent youth. She lives and works in Chicago, which is not in New York.
MIKE McGONIGAL
has edited three fancy-ass fanzines: Chemical Imbalance (1983-1995), Yeti (2000-ongoing) and Rugburn (late 2005). Currently at work on a book about the history of gospel music (it'll probably take him years to finish), he wrote about My Bloody Valentine's Loveless for the 33 1/3 imprint and edited of the forthcoming best-of-C.I. collection, In Love With Those Times. He also DJs gospel and drone music, compiles benefit compilations, makes metal sculptures, helps design t-shirts, eats too much Ethiopian food, and runs his own MP3 blog.
LYDIA MILLET'S
most recent book is Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a novel about the physicists who invented the A-bomb.
RICK MOODY'S
Right Livelihoods: Three Novelas is forthcoming from Little, Brown in June.
ALUN MORRIS
Left Wales for South Africa as a young man to join DRUM, Africa's first black magazine, whose black writers became famous throughout the 1950s for their racy fiction portraying life at the racial divide in Joburg. The magazine was eventually hounded out of existence by the apartheid-era government because of the exposes of DRUM's writers and photographers of the political abuse of Africans. He is the father of moistworks' James Morris, and lives with his wife in an old colonial property above a volcanic crater lake in Australia.
JAMES MORRIS
is the founder of moistworks. He played wide receiver briefly in the AFL. He is the editor of The Roxanne Diaries, the UTFO fan club newsletter.
MANNY NOSOWSKY
is a retired physician whose crossword puzzles appear regularly in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
JENNY OFFILL
is the author of the novel Last Things.
CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO
is the author of the novels Sound on Sound and Trance.
DANA SPIOTTA
is the author of the novels Lightning Field and Eat the Document.
YANCEY STRICKLER
serves as managing editor at eMusic and writes for Entertainment Weekly, Spin, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, and a number of other publications.
NICK TOSCHES'
most recent book is King of the Jews
TONY TOST
is the author of two books of poetry: Amplifier for Hercules, which is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press next fall, and Invisible Bride, winner of the 2003 Walt Whitman Award.
DOUGLAS WOLK
writes about pop music and comic books for a bunch of places, and blogs at Lacunae and 52 Pickup. He's the author of Live at the Apollo (Continuum, 2004) and Reading Comics (Da Capo, 2007).
JOANNA YAS
is the co-editor of Open City Magazine & Books. She lives in Brooklyn.
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