Diane Borsato is a visual artist working in performance, intervention, video, installation, and photography. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Borsato is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary studio at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Ed Bowes teaches at the School of Visual Arts, where he directs the Moving Image program in the MFA Photography, Video and Relate Media Department. He also chairs the BFA Film and Video Department's Thesis Committee. He is married to the poet Anne Waldman and lives in New York City. www.edbowes.org

Brenda Coultas is the author most recently of The Marvelous Bones of Time, published by Coffee House Press in 2007.

Jessica Eichman is a graphic designer and founder of Glass Egg Design. Originally from Natchez, MS, she earned degrees in Art and French before living and working in Paris, Oregon, and Boston. In 2006 she established her own design company in Nashville, TN, where she lives with her husband and children. www.glasseggdesign.com

Chris Funkhouser is a poet, scholar and Associate Professor in the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2006 he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Multimedia University in Malaysia; in 2007 he was on the faculty of the summer writing program at Naropa University. A bi-lingual collection of creative and critical writings, Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works, is forthcoming. For more info see http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous

Robert Godfrey is a painter whose work deals with narrative structures and human relationships. It has been described as autobiographical fiction. He has participated in more than 50 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group shows. A native of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Godfrey has lived and worked in Asheville, North Carolina, since 1985. http://www.robertgodfrey.com/RG2008/

Paulo Hartmann lives in São Paulo, Brazil. As a sound designer, he has worked with Eduardo Verderame for the installation at Emoção Art.Ficial 1.0 – Descendo a Escada of Regina Silveira. As a musician, he's been involved in the creation of soundscapes (which have been presented at the 5th Festival de la Imagen, Manizales Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Columbia , File Hipersonica, Epoetry 2007) generating real time loops, as well as tele-performance presentations. He is co-founder of Padiciço – a multidisciplinary group with focus on musical compositions as well as slide and video projections. At present, he is part of a group of multimedia, advertising and art-technology professionals that develop projects addressing the impact of new technologies on society and culture. He is an organizer of IMOBILEFEST - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity and Improfest - International Festival of Free Improvisation. www.paulohartmann.net/ph/

George Hildrew is a conceptual artist painting within both figural and abstract formats. He is a painter of occurrences: conceived and received. His studios are in Brooklyn New York and Haddon Heights, New Jersey. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Italy. www.georgehildrew.com/

Gisela Insuaste received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Anthropology & Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She is a recipient of several grants and awards, including a Richard Driehaus Emerging Artist Award, Illinois Arts Council artist grants, MacDowell Colony Artist Fellowships, and a recent nomination of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Sculptors and Painters. Exhibitions include the Chicago Cultural Center, Krannert Art Museum-UIUC, Gallery 400-UIC, Bucket Rider Gallery and several other group and solo shows throughout the country. In July 2008, she completed an installation project as the artist in residence at the Museum of Contemporary of Chicago. She has an upcoming solo show at the MCA during the Fall of 2008 and participate in a group show as part of Emerge10 at Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art summer of 2009. www.giselainsuaste.com

Solan Jensen was born in Juneau, Alaska where he now lives. He works in travel and education, dividing his time between Antarctica, Alaska, and the Arctic. Educated in philosophy and biogeography, Solan was drawn to filmmaking naturally. His current projects include the forthcoming film on the band Califone, co-directed with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, entitled Made a Machine By Describing the Landscape, as well as a documentary on the dominant metaphors for cancer survivorship. Presently a volunteer responder for the Marine Mammal Stranding Network in Alaska, Solan has also worked as a boat builder, radio dj, bricklayer, dishwasher, and shoe salesman. His love for the films of Guy Maddin is eternal.

Ben Johnson is a painter and photographer who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2001. He is currently represented by Artist’s House Gallery in Philadelphia PA, The Field Gallery in West Tisbury MA, and Accent Gallery in Ocean City, NJ. Ben’s publications include an upcoming feature in the June 2008 issue of American Art Collector. His website is www.benjohnsonart.com

William Davies King is professor of Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of several books of theater scholarship, including Henry Irving’s “Waterloo” (winner of the 1993 Callaway Award), Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn, and a forthcoming book about the marriage of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton. Most recently, the University of Chicago Press has published his Collections of Nothing. He can be reached at king@theaterdance.ucsb.edu.

David Lowe's work has often used immaterial or ephemeral means to investigate entropy, the experience of time's passing, and the arbitrariness and limitations of language systems. He is currently collaborating with the writer and musician Michelle Leona on a silent film about about the history of braille. He is a singer, guitarist, and lyricist for the band gutter & spine, and is the archivist of a major institutional photographic collection in NYC.

Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short-short fiction, Good, Brother (Calamari Press), The Moon is a Lighthouse (New Michigan Press), and The Singing Fish (Calamari Press). His new book, a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, will be published this June by Dzanc Books (http://www.dzancbooks.org/bobormaninboat.html). His stories have appeared in recent issues of Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, Verse, Unsaid, New York Tyrant.

Leisure Projects (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley) is an independent artist-curator initiative that explores the relationship of otherworldliness, fantasy and desire on cultural identity and perceptions of the world. Leisure Projects uses the strategies of socially-historic research and the mounting of contemporary visual art exhibitions to create a productive intersection between imaginary narratives and real life events. www.leisuregallery.ca

Kristen Nelson writes short prose and poetry. She is a founder and the executive director of Casa Libre, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, AZ. You can find more of her work in Cranky, Quarter After Eight, and In Posse Review.

Akilah Oliver is a writer living in New York, Core Faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, and my next book is forthcoming in Feb. 2009 from Coffee House Press, entitled, 'A Toast in the House of Friends'. www.poetryproject.com/newsletter.php

Orchestra Descarrego is an improvisational group initilized by Paulo Hartmann, Lucio Agra and Giulinano Tosin, during 2007 E-Poetry, Paris. Presented in Trickhouse is the first recording of the group with Chris Funkhouser, Denis Koishi, Giuliano Tosin, Marcel Rocha, Marco Scarassatti, and Paulo Hartmann.

Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009). The first installment of an ongoing project, The Nines, was published as chapbook from Palm Press (2006) and is available from Small Press Distribution. His work is forthcoming in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and appears in journals such as Bird Dog, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Octopus Magazine, and Practice: New Writing + Art. He lives in the nation of Vermont, where he teaches Creative Writing  and runs Tarpaulin Sky Press.

Martin Riker is Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press and editor for the Press's critical magazines the Review of Contemporary Fiction and CONTEXT.

Lara Rivera is a South African artist living in Chicago since 2007. She has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited in Scotland, the Netherlands, South Africa and USA. www.lararivera.com

Elizabeth Rollins has published in Green Mountains Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The New England Review, GW Review, The Bellevue Literary Review and The Philadelphia Citypaper, among others. She is the author of The Sin Eater, a chapbook, Corvid Press, 2004. She received a Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and a New Jersey Prose Fellowship in 2003. She has just finished a novel, titled Origin.

Noah Saterstrom is an artist and founder of Trickhouse currently living in Tucson, AZ. He has exhibited paintings, drawings, prints, and installations nationally and internationally. Recent publications include The Denver Quarterly and Tarpaulin Sky.  He is currently collaborating with poet Joan Fiset on Changeling, a book of paintings and poems. www.noahsaterstrom.com

Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution (both published by Coffee House Press). She co-curates SLAB PROJECTS, an artist/writer-curator initiative concerned with exploring the gaps between decay and reconstruction in ruined or abandoned landscapes. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Denver and in the Naropa Summer Writing Program. www.selahsaterstrom.blogspot.com & www.selahsaterstrom.com

Julianna Spallholz's work has appeared in Caketrain, Cranky, Gargoyle, and Sleepingfish, among others. She lives both in Tucson, AZ, and on a small farm in upstate New York.

Zoë Stonyk 's artistic interest revolves around collaborative site specific performance and installation, instigating unexpected scenarios that blur and blend the relationship between artist and audience. She has also been active in the field of curation and is currently pursuing studies in art education at Concordia University. In addition, he does stuff and is interested in things.

Sara Veglahn was born and raised in the American Midwest. Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Sleepingfish, Octopus, Fence, 26, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere, and anthologized in Poets on Painters (Ulrich Museum of Art, 2007). She is the author of three chapbooks: Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Another Random Heart (Margin to Margin, 2002), and is co-author of the chapbook That We Come to a Consensus (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006), a collaboration with poet Noah Eli Gordon. Currently, she is the Associate Editor for the Denver Quarterly and teaches literature at Naropa Universit and creative writing at the University of Denver, where she is completing her PhD.

Walking Turcot Yards is a blog created by a Montreal based photographer/artist. The project, Walking Turcot Yards: Art, Architecture, and The Urban Landscape, provides a living documentation of the Turcot Yards, a vast incredible “abandoned” space in the south west of Montreal.