Spicula linguarum anitum, oculi   piscium minutorum (Tips of tongues of ducks, eye of small fish)    41 x 30.5 in	Spicula linguarum anitum (Tips of    tongues of ducks)  27 x 20.5 in	Caudae rubri piscium (red tails of    fish), silver halide prints  30 x 20 in

  

Mary Caponegro is the author of Tales from the Next Village (Lost Roads), The Star Café (Scribner's), Five Doubts (Marsilio), The Complexities of Intimacy (Coffee House Press), and Materia Prima (published in Italy by Leconte). Her most recent collection of stories and novellas is All Fall Down (Coffee House Press). Her work has been anthologized widely. She has received the General Electric Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Bruno-Arcudi Award, a Lannan Residency, and the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters.She is a graduate of Bard College and the Brown University Writing Program. She has taught at Brown, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart & William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. Since 2002 she has been Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College.

Jessica Hagedorn is the author of Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster Of Love, and Dogeaters, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. She is also the author of Danger And Beauty, a collection of poetry and prose, and the editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction. Her plays include Most Wanted, The Heaven Trilogy, and the stage adaptation of Dogeaters. Hagedorn edited Manila Noir for Akashic's acclaimed Noir series, which was most recently published. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at LIU Brooklyn.

Fiona Maazel, got her MFA at Bennington College, lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of the novel Last Last Chance  (Farrer, Straus, ad Giroux) and Woke up Lonely (Graywolf).