Album Notes

Originally from Boulder, Colorado (as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Osaka, Japan) Laura Elrick lives in a Polish/Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn where the pierogies and platanos are as plentiful as the hazardous waste. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tripwire, Crayon, The Poker, Boog City, Combo, Kenning and Quid. Currently she is also a curator for the Segue on the Bowery reading series, and her first book, sKincerity was published by Krupskaya Books in the summer of 2003.

Heather Fuller grew up in Keflavik, Iceland; Dale City, Virginia; and Henderson, North Carolina. She now resides in Takoma Park, Maryland, just outside D.C. She has worked with non-profits on homelessness and poverty issues for the past eight years and edits poetry & book reviews for The Washington Review, as well as practices venipuncture on oranges, on the side.

Her first volume of poetry was perhaps this is a rescue fantasy (Edge Books, 1997); her second, Dovecote, is due out in 2001, also from Edge. In addition, she has two chapbooks: beggar (Situation Magazine, 1998) and Eyeshot (Propjet, 1999).

Carol Mirakove is the author of temporary tattoos (BabySelf Press, 2002) and WALL (ixnay press, 1999). She is a founding member of the subpress collective, with whom she published Fractured Humorous by Edwin Torres. She lives in Brooklyn.

Kristin Prevallet is author of the chapbooks Selections From the Parasite Poems and Lead, Glass, and Poppy, as well as the book Perturbation, My Sister, a study of Max Ernst's Hundred Headless Woman. She teaches composition at Long Island University and brings poetry to schools through the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.

Deborah Richards was born in London. She currently lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she is a teacher and performer. She received her MA from Temple University.