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Joe Jock
view articlesJoe Jock was born an hour from Yankee Stadium in Connecticut and is a fan of all things New York, but resides in Southern California, as he is also a fan of the sun. His field is Human Resources, but his passions include writing - for which he has gained accolades from the English Department of his college - and History. Joe plans to attend UC-Santa Barbara in the Fall as a History major.
Joel Westendorf
Joel Westendorf has done lots of things. Some of which you might be interested in, some.. not so much. His work has appeared in the magazines Spin, Index, and Detour, been displayed at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC and Sister Gallery in Los Angeles, and can be found on the covers of 7 novels. Currently he likes taking and working with photographs of anything that isn't man-made, especially animals. His graphics have been featured on Fanzine from the site's inception
John Russell
view articlesJohn Russell was a teenage hustler who’d been pimped out as a cross-dressed prostitute by his mother at truck stops throughout the South, until he landed on the streets of San Francisco in the early-to-mid-nineties. He is now an artist, curator, editor of the Frozen Tears book series, and football fan based in London.
Jon Frosch
view articlesBorn and raised in NYC, Jon Frosch has lived in Paris for the last 4 years, where he currently works at the International Herald Tribune. His NYU Masters thesis was on "The New French-Jewish Cinema," and his work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, The Stranger, Santa Fe Reporter, Pasadena Weekly, Film Journal International, AlterNet, GoGo Magazine, Time Out Paris, Paris Voice, Courrier International (translated into French), Variety, Willamette Week, PopMatters, The Portland Mercury, and the District Weekly.
Jon Leon
view articlesJon Leon is a New York based poet and novellaist. His books include The Hot Tub with Dan Hoy's Glory Hole (mal-o-mar editions, 2009), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008), and Right Now the Music and the Life Rule (Hathaway, 2006). In Italy, La Camera Verde brought out a translation of his Diphasic Rumors in 2008. He is an occasional contributer to Art in America.
Jon Weissberg
view articlesWaiting for his real bio, while we get his first piece up, but he's a big sports fan, lives in New York and is a friend of Danny Jock's and I hope this is him in the pic I grabbed from a private myspace page by the same name (ha!).
Jonathan Rosenbaum
view articlesFrom 1987 until 2007, Jonathan Rosenbaum was principal film critic at the Chicago Reader. His books include Moving Places, Placing Movies, Film: The Front Line 1983, Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman), Greed, Dead Man, Movies as Politics, Movie Wars, Abbas Kiarostami (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa), Essential Cinema, Discovering Orson Welles, and, as editor or coeditor, Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles and (with Adrian Martin) Movie Mutations. His web site is at jonathanrosenbaum.com
Jordan Heller
view articlesJordan Heller is a former senior editor of the pop culture magazines BlackBook and Radar. His writing has appeared in Men's Journal, Wall Street Journal, VanityFair.com, and Christian Science Monitor. He lives in Brooklyn and can be contacted at jordhell@gmail.com.
Joshua Cohen
view articlesJoshua Cohen was born in Southern New Jersey in 1980. Author of The Quorum (Twisted Spoon Press), he is also an essayist for the Forward and an editor of the PLR (www.pragueliteraryreview.com). A novel of his is forthcoming in 2006 from Fugue State Press.
Julie Perini
view articlesBorn and raised on the banks of the Hudson River, Julie Perini now makes her home in Buffalo, NY where she recently received her MFA in Media Study from the University at Buffalo. She is about to relocate to Portland, OR so's to indulge in "some kind of hippy fantasy" (quote uncertain). Julie’s artwork in video, film, installation, mail, and performance has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of theaters, galleries, clubs, sidewalks, warehouses, hotels, and living rooms.
Karsten Krejcarek
Karsten Krejcarek is Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily in sculpture and video. He is a level-two boundary disillusionist, with apparent leanings toward the fourth quadrant. More can be found at krejcarek.com.
Kaya Oakes
view articlesKaya Oakes’ nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
Kevin Killian
view articlesKevin Killian, born 1952, is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright. He has written a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino) and Often (2001, with Barbara Guest). His next book will be all about Kylie Minogue.
Kevin Paul Giordano
view articlesKEVIN PAUL GIORDANO has written for the New York Times and the New York Post. He previously taught journalism at Brooklyn College. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, where he teaches at the University of Central Florida.
Kevin Sampsell
view articlesKevin Sampsell is the author of a memoir, A Common Pornography, which has been praised by both Penthouse and Harper's Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon, which is like the red light district/smut capital of the west coast.
Larry O'Connor
view articlesLarry O’Connor is a journalist and author of Tip of the Iceberg, a memoir that was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2003, and the novel, The Penalty Box. His essays have been widely published and his radio commentaries have been broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Mary Morris, and their daughter, Kate.
Laura Carter
view articlesLaura Carter lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed her MFA at Georgia State University in 2007. She teaches at Southern Polytechnic State University and Rasmussen College, and this summer is working with her mom's company in a black glass office building.
Laura Jane Faulds
view articlesLaura Jane Faulds is a Toronto-based writer of French-Moroccan descent. She is currently working on Let It Be Beautiful, a nine-volume "Beatles-epic" in which she and co-writer Elizabeth Barker rewrite every Beatles song (there are 300!) as a story, essay, or story-essay. Her writing has appeared in Shelf Life, Chelsea, Maximum Rockandroll and Storychord magazines, but she feels as though she performs to the best of her ability on Twitter.
Laura Varlas
Coach is an education writer and editor in D.C. She took the GRE at Howard University, and hopes to go back some day, and take it again. When she’s not training for an imaginary sports event, she enjoys making some gay-ass flyers for queer dance parties.
Lee Stegner
Lee Stegner has published stories in The Madison Review, Cream City Review and ZYZZYVA. She received her MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University.
Linh Dinh
view articlesLinh Dinh is the author of two books of stories, five of poems, and a just released novel, Love Like Hate. He's tracking our deteriorating socialscape through his frequently updated photo blog, State of the Union.
Lonely Christopher
view articlesLonely Christopher is the author of several poetry chapbooks and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
view articlesLorenzo De Los Angeles has shown his drawings, sculptures, light shows,
and art collaborations throughout the U.S. and abroad. He likes to
look and learn about old things, and enjoys drinking at the Lenox
Lounge in Harlem, The Sideshow at Coney Island, and the Oyster Bar in
Grand Central Station.