J. MAE BARIZO (The Marble Palace) Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo was shortlisted for Canada's Robert Kroetsch award for Innovative Poetry and Ahsahta Press's Sawtooth Poetry Prize. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Jane Kenyon award for poetry at Bennington College. A champion of cross-genre work and performative poetics, Barizo has performed poetry collaborations with various musicians, including the renowned American String Quartet. Her critical writing has been published in Tarpaulin Sky, Sink Review, H_NGM_N, and other journals. New poetry appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Zoland Poetry, and Bellingham Review.
HANSA BERGWALL (The Thames & Hudson Project) has poems published in Lodestar Quarterly, Caliban Online, St. Petersburg Review and Whistling Fire. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband.
DOUGLAS HAHN (Standing Wave) is the co-founder and editor of Sink Review.
TIMOTHY LIU (The Thames & Hudson Project) is the author of For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); Of Thee I Sing (2004), selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Hard Evidence (2001); Say Goodnight (1998); Burnt Offerings (1995); and Vox Angelica (1992), which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, (Talisman House, 2000). His poems have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in such magazines and journals as American Letters & Commentary, Bomb, Grand Street, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and Virginia Quarterly Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.
ELENA RIVERA (A Question of Sides) Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She is the author of Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL e-editions 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). Her book The Perforated Map is now available from Shearsman Books.
Eléna Rivera recently won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation from the National Poetry Series for her translation of Bernard Noël's Le Reste du voyages (P.O.L. 1997). Her translation will be published by Graywolf Press in September 2011. She is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, a residency at the Fundacíon Valparaíso in southern Spain (2009), and the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath was published by Burning Deck Press in 2009.
RICHARD SCHEIWE (The Dry Moon Dialogue) Poet, playwright and critic, Scheiwe is a founding editor of FIELDS PRESS. Scheiwe was educated at the University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago, and he received his MFA in Creative Writing from New School (2005). His poetry and criticism have been published in Poet Lore, Verse, Octopus, et al. In 2008 and 2009, Richard was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He co-edits Sink Review and teaches writing and English Literature at CUNY and Adelphi University. He lives in New York City.
HANSA BERGWALL (The Thames & Hudson Project) has poems published in Lodestar Quarterly, Caliban Online, St. Petersburg Review and Whistling Fire. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband.
DOUGLAS HAHN (Standing Wave) is the co-founder and editor of Sink Review.
TIMOTHY LIU (The Thames & Hudson Project) is the author of For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); Of Thee I Sing (2004), selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Hard Evidence (2001); Say Goodnight (1998); Burnt Offerings (1995); and Vox Angelica (1992), which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, (Talisman House, 2000). His poems have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in such magazines and journals as American Letters & Commentary, Bomb, Grand Street, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and Virginia Quarterly Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.
ELENA RIVERA (A Question of Sides) Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She is the author of Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL e-editions 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). Her book The Perforated Map is now available from Shearsman Books.
Eléna Rivera recently won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation from the National Poetry Series for her translation of Bernard Noël's Le Reste du voyages (P.O.L. 1997). Her translation will be published by Graywolf Press in September 2011. She is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, a residency at the Fundacíon Valparaíso in southern Spain (2009), and the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath was published by Burning Deck Press in 2009.
RICHARD SCHEIWE (The Dry Moon Dialogue) Poet, playwright and critic, Scheiwe is a founding editor of FIELDS PRESS. Scheiwe was educated at the University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago, and he received his MFA in Creative Writing from New School (2005). His poetry and criticism have been published in Poet Lore, Verse, Octopus, et al. In 2008 and 2009, Richard was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He co-edits Sink Review and teaches writing and English Literature at CUNY and Adelphi University. He lives in New York City.
