Abraham Adams is an artist and a former editor of Ugly Duckling Presse. His work was most recently exhibited at Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin. He lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Mel Bentley sporadically organizes readings and multidisciplinary performance in Philadelphia. Obstacle, Particle, Spectacle, was released from 89plus/Luma Foundation as part of the exhibition “Poetry Will Be Made By All.” Chapbooks Stub Wilderness and &parts were released from Well Greased Press and Damask Press, respectively. A work of living feeds at: www.speakwright.org

Purdey Lord Kreiden is an accomplished paleontologist who travels the globe in search of dinosaur digs. She won the Iditarod dog sled race in 1985. She also rationalized that the new continent of South America was the “Earthly Paradise” that was located “at the end of the Orient”. Her book Children of the Bad Hour is available from Ugly Duckling Presse, and she co-translated Tony Duvert’s L’Ile Atlantique with Michael Thomas Taren (Semiotext(e)), forthcoming.