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 Peter Arkle is an illustrator who lives in Manhattan's East Village. He grew up in Penicuik, ten miles south of Edinburgh. "14th Street" is excerpted from Peter Arkle News, a newsletter he has published since 1993. For subscription information, please drop him a line. Susannah Breslin is the author of You're a Bad Man, Aren't You? from Future Tense Books. She is currently at work on a semi-autobiographical novel, If Only These Hands Could Talk, based on her experiences in Porn Valley. Brian Emery lives in Brooklyn with five roommates, which makes wandering all the more desirable. Sara Ivry, an editor at Nextbook, has written about museums, health, books, and singing at the Bottom Line with Roger Daltrey. She contributed "River's Edge" to the Winter 2001 issue of Flâneur. Jun Ma lives and writes in Miami. Marcia Tucker is a writer, art critic, and lecturer in New York. She founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977 and was its director until 1999. Previously she was Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. "All Around the Block" is adapted from her memoir-in-progress, A Short Life of Trouble. Mindy Tucker lives and works in Brooklyn. She carries a camera at all times. Rob Walker is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Inc. "Under the Freeway" appears in the essay collection Letters From New Orleans, published July 2005 by Garrett County Press. 
Jason Bentsman lives in Chinatown, New York. His writing has appeared in FIRE, Spatial Practices, Wild Poets, and Mama Said. He is currently trying to find a publisher for Mardi Gras in the Moment, his first novel, and is working on a collection of short stories and vignettes. Michael Bernstein lives in Brooklyn. His experiences living in a former ghost town in New Mexico, touring with a traveling circus, and growing up in suburban Long Island are among those that have influenced his interest in modes of habitation. Winifred Carlson lives in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The Georgia Review and The Commercial Appeal. Antrim Caskey grew up in Baltimore and has since lived in Colorado, Washington, China, India, Florida, and Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, and The Indian Express. K.A. Dilday is a journalist in New York. Bilge Ebiri is coming soon to a theater near you. Shannon Fagan lives in New York. His photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, Photo District News, Fortune, and The New York Times. John Foy's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Parnassus, The New Criterion, Southwest Review, and many other publications, as well as on Poetry Daily. He lives in New York. John R. Harris is a freelance photographer with prints in the Wagner Labor Archive and departmental collections at the Museum of Modern Art. Most of the photos in "Taxi!" were taken while riding a bicycle in New York. When Thomas Hopkins grows up, he would like to be the James Thurber of the twenty-first century. Anna Jefferys works as an emergencies policy officer with a humanitarian organization in London. Joy Katz is the author of Fabulae. Damien Keane was born in Hartford. He now lives elsewhere. Rachel King has ignored parental advice and moved to Brooklyn. Stuart Klawans is the film critic of The Nation and author of the books Film Follies and Left in the Dark. Paul Laster is an artist living in Brooklyn. He is also a contributing writer and photographer for Artnet.com. Heather Lemonedes is an art historian. Alexander Levi practices architecture and photography in Madrid. With Amanda Schachter, he recently founded the cooperative Aandacht Loop to intervene in the most unsuspecting of public places. David Levine is a theater director in New York. Jason Marks is a photographer, writer, and Internet filmmaker who lives on New York's Lower East Side. Alan Licht is a musician and writer living in New York. His first book, An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn, was published in 2002 by Drag City Press. Diane Mehta's latest poems appear in Gettysburg Review, the Literary Review, Poetry, and Witness. New York remains her favorite place to take walks while shopping for shoes. Brendan O'Malley acquires and edits history and American studies books for Palgrave, the academic imprint of St. Martin's Press. He likes the Red Sox's chances in 2004. Scott Pitcock lives in the Bronx and works in Chelsea. Julie Püttgen lives and practices benevolent chaos in Atlanta, where "Groundwords" evolved as a visual litany of the city. Hillary Raphael is just back from Tokyo, where she was completing Outcast Samurai Dancer, a book of new Japanese dance. Lauren Redniss has recently been drawing at criminal court in the Bronx. Melanie Rehak is a freelance writer. "Adonis All Male Revue, November 24, 1993" originally appeared in The New Republic, and is included in the book Poems of New York. Dan Safarik is practiced in the art of self-deception. He is patiently awaiting fame while writing about financial technology. His band, The Cooper Vane, is currently making the rounds of New York entertainment venues. A.O. Scott of The New York Times calls Rebecca Schuman "[S]tunning! A dazzling romp through the unwavering complexities of the human spirit!" Gene Shalit raves, "...the most fun you'll have going to the movies all year!" And the Seattle Post-Intelligencercoos, "inspired by actual events!" Said Shirazi has lived in New York a year longer than he realized. His writing has recently appeared at Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and Habits of Waste. Matt Tait grew up near Springfield, Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn. Joe Tonetti is a painter and photographer in Brooklyn. Some of his work is available through Julie Baker Fine Art. David Yezzi's poems and criticism have appeared recently in The New England Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and The New Criterion. His chapbook, Sad Is Eros, is out from Aralia Press. Scott Zieher is a founding member of Emergency Press and Emergency Almanac publications. He was born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and now lives in New York. |
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