STAFF

Ram Devineni is the publisher of Cypher Books and Rattapallax and a film-maker who has had films shown at the Cairo International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival, Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, etc. He was an Eagleton Associate at the Eagleton Institute for Politics at Rutgers University where he studied political theory and campaign management. He has organized several state and federal elections. He also integrates new technologies (e.g networks, SANs,...) for Citigroup.

Edwin Torres is the author of several books of poetry including Electrobabylist: the popedology of an ambient language (Atelos Books), The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books), Please (Faux Press) and Fractured Humorous (Subpress). His CD Holy Kid was part of The Whitney Museum's exhibition, The American Century Pt. II. Honors include poetry fellowships from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art, and NYFA. He has taught at St. Marks Poetry Project, Naropa Institute and Bard College and is currently co-editing POeP! and Rattapallax both from Rattapallax Press. Additional information at http://www.brainlingo.com.

Marilyn Hacker (International Poetry Editor) is the author of nine books of poetry, including Squares and Courtyards (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), Winter Numbers (1994), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994), which received the Poets' Prize; Going Back to the River (1990), for which she received a Lambda Literary Award; and Presentation Piece (1974), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award winner. She has received numerous honors, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

Alan Cheuse (Fiction Editor) is the author of three novels, two collections of short fiction, and the nonfictional Fall Out of Heaven. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and he serves as the host and co-producer of the NPR syndicated fiction short story magazine "The Sound of Writing." With Caroline Marshall, he has edited two volumes of short stories. His own short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Black Warrior Review, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine and elsewhere. His articles, magazine journalism, and reviews have also appeared widely. Cheuse's The Bohemians was made into the movie Reds starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.

Flávia Rocha (Editor) is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital, República, Valor Econômico and Bravo!, and was a contributor for other publications, including MTV magazine, Vogue and Sabor. She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Brazil. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004.

Idra Novey's (Editor) poetry and prose appear or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Believer. Her chapbook of poems The Next Country won the 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and her translations of Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto received a PEN Translation Fund grant; the book, The Clean Shirt of It, came out in 2007 in the Lannan Translation Series from BOA Editions. Her first book, The Next Country, received the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books and will be released in 2008. Novey teaches at Columbia University and in the Bard College Prison Initiative.

Rodrigo Rojas (Editor) is a poet, translator, former Fulbright Scholar at NYU's graduate program in Creative Writing. In Chile, Editorial Cuarto Propio published his collection of poems, Desembocadura del Cielo (1996) and Sol de Acero (1999). Among other awards, he has recieved the Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize and the Pablo Neruda Writing Fellowship. He currently teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago.

Catherine Fletcher (Editor) is the coordinator of the Endangered Language Initiative, a multi-year project of the New York-based People's Poetry Gathering dedicated to document, disseminate, and translate poetry in endangered, contested, and threatened languages.

Music Editor: Derek Beres
Endangered Languages Editor: Catherine Fletcher
Other Editors: Willie Perdomo, Jeet Thayil, José Ignacio Silva Anguita & Katherine DeBlassie

Contributing Editors: Dana Gioia, James Ragan, Michael Hulse, Edwin Torres, Khaled Mattawa, Regie Cabico, Yerra Sugarman, Ron Price, Haale, Pascale Petit, Robert Minhinnick, Larry Jaffe, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lloyd Robson, William Pitt Root, Joshua Auerbach, Lorna Blake, and Fred Johnston.