 JEANNE
MARIE BEAUMONT grew up in the Philadelphia area
and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author
of Placebo Effects, which was a winner of the National
Poetry Series (Norton, 1997), and Curious Conduct (BOA
Editions, forthcoming 2004). She is also the editor of The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story
Line Press, 2003). For seven years she was coeditor of the
literary magazine American Letters & Commentary.
In addition to Rutgers, she has taught at The Frost Place
in Franconia, NH, and at the Unterberg Center of the 92nd
Street Y in NYC. Norton
Poets Online, The
Poets' Grimm
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 MARTINE
BELLEN is the author of six collections of poetry
including The
Vulnerability of Order, (Copper Canyon Press 2001); Tales of Murasaki
and Other Poems, (Sun & Moon Press 1999) which won the National Poetry
Series Award; and Places People Dare Not Enter, (Potes & Poets Press
1991). A bilingual collection of her poetry was published in 2003 in Germany
by Verlag im Waldgut (translator, Hans Jürgen Balmes). Her forthcoming collection, Living
with Animals, will be published next year. She has also written the
libretto for Ovidiana, an opera based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (composer,
Matthew Greenbaum) that has been performed in New York City and Philadelphia.
Ms. Bellen has been a senior editor of the literary journal Conjunctions. She
is a contributing editor and on the board of directors of Web
del Sol. Ms. Bellen presently teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School
of the Arts, the New School, and Rutgers University.
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 WESLEY
BROWN is the author of two published novels, Tragic
Magic, Darktown Strutters; three produced
plays, Boogie
Woogie and Booker T, Life During
Wartime, A Prophet Among
Them; co-editor of the multicultural anthologies, Imagining
America (short fiction), Visions
of America (autobiography
and essay); editor of the Teachers
and Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass; and wrote
the narrative for one of the sections of the PBS documentary, W.E.B.
DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices. He is a
Professor of English at Rutgers University.
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|  KATE
ELLIS Ph.D Columbia
(1972). MFA Creative Non-fiction The New School (1998). Author
of: The Contested
Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (1989),
Crossing Borders: A Memoir (2001), Poems published
in Ms. Crysalis, 13th Moon and other feminist
publications. Currently at work on a second memoir. Ellis's
English Department web page.
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 ALICIA
OSTRIKER has published ten volumes of poetry,
including (most recently) The Crack
in Everything (1996),
The Little Space: New and Selected
Poems (1998) and The
Volcano Sequence (2002). She
has won the William Carlos Williams Prize of the Poetry
Society of America, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San
Francisco State Poetry Center Award, and has twice been
a finalist for the National Book Award. Her prose books
include Writing Like a Woman (1982), Stealing
the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1996),
and
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays
on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. Ostriker's
website
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 SINA
QUEYRAS writes poetry, fiction and drama. SLIP,
her first collection of poetry, was published by ECW Press.
Her work has been produced in Vancouver, Toronto, and
published widely in journals including The Malahat Review, Descant, Rattapallax,
and published online at HOW2. She has received grants
and fellowships from the Dodge Foundation and Canada Council
and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for
poetry.
Her second book of poetry, Teeth Marks, was published in the fall
of 2004. She is editing an anthology of Canadian
poetry for Persea Books due out in the Spring of 2005.
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 CATHERINE TEXIER was born and raised in France and lives in New York City. She is the author of three novels, Panic Blood, Love Me Tender and Chloé l'Atlantique (written in French), and a memoir, Breakup. Victorine is coming out from Pantheon in April 2004. She was coeditor of the literary magazine Between C and D, is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and has written for Newsday, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire and Nerve.com. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. Her work has been translated into ten languages.
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KEN URBAN is a playwright and a director. His work has been produced throughout the United States. Critics have called his work "an awesome achievement" (Los Angeles Times), " smart, sharp and mature" (Citysearch NY), and "radically ambitious" (The Seattle Weekly). Ken has developed work with Soho Rep in New York City, Annex Theatre in Seattle and Hudson Exploited Theatre Company in New Jersey. His plays are published in Plays and Playwrights 2002, Best Women's Monologues 2001 and The Brooklyn Review. In addition to directing his own work, he has directed plays by Sarah Kane, Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter. His essays and reviews have appeared in Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Journal, and A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. He is the Artistic Director of the committee theatre company and serves as the Coordinator of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers University. www.thecommitteetheatre.org |
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