Entasis

Nancy Devine

Nancy Devine teaches high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota where she lives. She co-directs the Red River Valley Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project. Her poetry, short fiction and essays have appeared in online and print journals.

Mitch Dixon

Mitch Dixon is an artist primarily focusing on painting and drawing. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he now lives in Montreal and is studying fine arts at Concordia University. More of his work can be found at http://www.friendshipandhappiness.com.

Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell has had a lengthy and strangely divided career, moving between music and professional boxing, and recently adding writing to the equation.  Farrell has played and/or recorded with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, and Muddy Waters.  He has managed hip hop icon G Love (who appears on Farrell’s CD “Addicted”).  In September, 2011, Farrell completed a series of concerts and recordings with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Jim Schapperoew.  “Cats & Dogs” is the first of the series to be released.  In 2007, Farrell won a Hillsborough County Composers Grant for “Cass Street Bridge, Tampa, Florida 2007.”  As a boxing manager, he  represented five world champions, including Leon Spinks and Freddie Norwood, as well as heavyweight title contender Mitch “Blood” Green.  Since turning a portion of his attention to writing, he has been a Boxing Writers Association of America winner and a keynote speaker at Trinity College Dublin’s “Cultures of Boxing” July, 2011 conference.  He is currently working on a new music/sampling project (“Amusement”) and a memoir (“Lowlife: True Stories of a Fortunate Motherfucker”).

Anna Guercio

Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, Pool, Anomalous Press, Painted Bride Quarterly, The St Petersburg Review, Eleven Eleven, Faultline, and Words Without Borders, among others. Her translation of José Eugenio Sánchez’s Suite Prelude a/H1N1 is available now from Toad Press and her chapbook of original poetry, By Way of Explanation, will be published in March 2012 by Dancing Girl Press.

Greg November

Greg November is a writer and teacher currently based in Seattle, WA. He teaches English composition and creative writing at several community colleges and is at work on a novel about a teenage boy with a secret identity, as well as a collection of short stories. His work has appeared in The Hiss Quarterly, Philly Fiction, and Orange Coast Review, and is forthcoming in The Writing Disorder. He has an MFA from UC Irvine and lives with his wife and two cats.

Liana Scalletar

Liana Scalletar lives and works in New York.

Melissa Unger

Melissa Unger is the founder of Seymour (www.seymourprojects.org) a non-profit initiative dedicated to creativity.  She is also a freelance consultant and frequently interviews contemporary artists for the international arts information website artnet.

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