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Willie
Perdomo (Editor & Publisher of Cypher
Books) is
the author of Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press,
2003),
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (Norton, 1996) and
Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002).
He is the author of a Visiting Langston, a Coretta
Scott King Honor Book for Children, illustrated by Bryan
Collier (Henry Holt/Books for Young Readers, 2002) and
has been featured on several PBS documentaries including
Words in Your Face and The United States of
Poetry as well as HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. He was
the recipient of a NYFA Poetry Fellowship 2001. Smoking
Lovely received PEN's 2004 Beyond Margins Award.
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Jeet
Thayil (Editor) was born in India and received
an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author
of several books of poetry, English (Rattapallax
Press), Gemini (Penguin Viking, 1992) and Apocalypso
(Ark Arts, 1997). He has edited two anthologies
of short stories, Vox: New Indian Fiction (Sterling,
1996) and Vox2: Seven Stories (Sterling, 1997).
He was a staff writer for Asiaweek, a columnist
for The South China Morning Post, and literary
editor for The Indian Post, Mid-day and Gentleman
magazine.
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Katherine
DeBlassie (Senior Editor) was born in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize,
her work has appeared in Zone 3 and other university
publications. She received her MFA from the University
of Maryland. Currently living in New York City she teaches
at Harlem Children's Zone and works with various publications
including Rattapallax and New York Moves
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José
Ignacio Silva Anguita's
(Senior
Editor) first poems were published in the anthology
Voces Germinales (2003), where he appears with
other young poets and narrators, all students of the
School of Creative Literature of Diego Portales University.
His articles have appeared in the cultural supplements
"Artes y Letras" and "Revista de Libros" of El Mercurio
newspaper and also in the website Critica.cl. Currently
he works as an editor, staff writer, and literary critic
of the electronic cultural magazine Plagio.
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Derek
Beres (Music Editor) was the managing editor of
Global Rhythm and has written for The Village
Voice, Urb, Trace, Relix, and Blue. He is
currently working on his first book, Global Beat
Fusion, about the electronic fusion of South Asian
classical music. He is a globa l beat DJ and plays nationally
as part of the Globesonic crew and is one-half of DJ
duo Baroque Monad. He also served as a featured journalist
for the "Picks of the Week" segment on Metro TV's The
Daily Beat and has recently launched a clothing
line, Bhakti. For more info check www.earthrisearts.com.
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