MONIKA ZARZECZNA was born Warsaw, Poland, raised in the Netherlands and moved to New York in 2002.Her work consists of drawing, works with paper, site specific works and public art. She has exhibited in New York in the Sculpture Center, JCAL, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Pluto Gallery, Repetti, Washington Square Galleries, in David Castillo Gallery in Miami and in galleries and art institutions in the Netherlands. Monika received her BFA from the HKU in Utrecht and the AHK in Amsterdam and enjoyed the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture residency in 2006.

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NATHAN LEE is a former film critic for the New York Times, Village Voice, and NPR. A contributing editor of Film Comment and a member of the National Society of Film Critics, he is currently pursuing a masters degree at the Center For Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Nathan lives in Kingston with a dog named Charlie.

COLLEEN ASPER is an artist and a writer. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Deitch Projects and P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York, NY. She regularly contributes to publications that include Art in America, Beautiful/Decay, and The Brooklyn Rail. Asper is also the co-founder, along with Jennifer Dudley, of Ad Hoc Vox: a roving series of panel discussions and lectures on a wide range of topics in the arts.

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DAVINA SEMO is a visual artist. She completed an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and hold a BA in Visual Arts and Creative Writing from Brown University. She has exhibited in New York (NY), Providence (RI), San Diego (CA), Los Angeles (CA), Wilmington (DE) and Tijuana (Mexico). In addition to her studio practice, Davina works as an Image Archivist at Paula Cooper Gallery and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute.

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ZEREK KEMPF was born in Ohio. He received his MFA from University of California, San Diego and his BFA in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University. He has been selected to attend residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at X-Initiative, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Waag Society, Amsterdam, NL; Fundacion Sa Nostra, Mallorca, SP. In 2009, Onestar Press published, Having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds, a collaborative book project with artist Joe Winter. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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CATHY PARK HONG's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Paris Review, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Jubilat, and other journals, and she has reported for the Village Voice, The Guardian, Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. She now lives in New York City and is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

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BEN DOWELL received an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the University of Kansas. His work has been exhibited across the country and throughout New York in venues such as Gavin Browne's Enterprise, Monkeytown, Year Gallery, and 101 Gallery, among others. His work was featured in the 2006 Wight Biennial at UCLA. Ben was awarded a fellowship by the Marie Walshe Sharpe Foundation in 2009.

MORES MCWREATH was born in Washington, PA in 1980. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2008. Solo shows include CUE Art Foundation, New York, 2009. Recent group exhibitions include the Whitney ISP Group Show at Art in General, New York, 2009; Theoretical Practice at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, 2009; Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2008; Ghosts of Presence: International Emerging Artists’ Video at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007; and Flex Your Textiles at John Connelly Presents, New York, 2006. His work has been screened in film festivals both nationally and internationally including Videomedeja 2009 Serbia, Duration: London, and the Jakarta International Video Festival. He currently teaches at the Cooper Union.

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CRAIG KALPAKJIAN is a visual artist. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. His work has been show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, and The Wexner Center. Among others, he has had solo exhibitions at Baukunst Galerie (Cologne), Andrea Rosen Gallery (NY), and Robert Miller Gallery (NY).

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GLEN FOGEL Glen Fogel works in film, video, installation, photography, and sculpture. His work has been screened and exhibited widely, including such venues as Anthology Film Archive, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and the Musuem of Modern Art. His work has screened in the Toronto and London International Film Festivals, and in 2002, Fogel was included in the Whitney Biennial. He has received grants form the MAP Production Fund, the Princess Grace Foundation, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Participant, Inc, in 2010.

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BENJAMIN KRESS is a visual artist living and working in Brookyn, New York. He received an MFA from Yale in 2004, and has exhibited locally and abroad. For more information, visit www.benjaminkress.com

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CATE MARVIN's first book of poems, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, also published by Sarabande, appeared in 2007. A 2007 Whiting Award recipient and NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ninth Letter. The New England Review, Tin House and Kenyon Review. She is an associate professor in English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program in creative writing at Lesley University. She lives in Staten Island, NY, and is the co-founder and co-director of the organization WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts).

ADAM SHECTER is a visual artist and educator living in New York City. Working primarily in 2D animation, his work is greatly influenced by mythology and mass cultural forms: from cinema to Saturday morning cartoons, comic books and music. He has had solo exhibitions of his work at Eleven Rivington Gallery (New York), Konstforeningen Aura (Lund), and Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefelder), among others. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. He has maintained his online test-site, theworldofadam.com, since 2001.

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MATTHEA HARVEY is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007),  Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000) as well as a children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (Tin House, 2009), illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She is a contributing editor to jubilat, BOMB and Meatpaper. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawerence and lives in Brooklyn.

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CHRISTIAN HAWKEY is the author of The Book of Funnels, the chapbook HourHour, the 2007 book Citizen Of, and a new chapbook, from Hand Held Editions, titled Petitions from an Alien Relative. A new book, Ventrakl, is due out from Ugly Duckling Presse in the Spring of 2010. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He lives in Berlin and Brooklyn and is currently an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he teaches in the Humanities and Media Studies department, and in the Writing Program. Currently he is working on translating, with the German poet Uljana Wolf, the short prose of Ilse Aichinger.

JOE WINTER has exhibited his work in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain, including at X-initiative (NY), Eyebeam (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Compact Space (LA), URBIS (UK), Estacion Tijuana, and the Western Front (Vancouver, BC). He recently collaborated with Zerek Kempf on the artist book Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds (Onestar Press). He has completed residencies through Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the MacDowell Colony, Skowhegan, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and received an individual artist grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 2009.

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CRAIG KALPAKJIAN is a visual artist.

GLEN FOGEL Glen Fogel works in film, video, installation, photography, and sculpture. His work has been screened and exhibited widely, including such venues as Anthology Film Archive, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and the Musuem of Modern Art. His work has screened in the Toronto and London International Film Festivals, and in 2002, Fogel was included in the Whitney Biennial. He has received grants form the MAP Production Fund, the Princess Grace Foundation, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Participant, Inc, in 2010.