THE FOLLOWING PHRASES: contributors

Emily Becklin sits at her desk in Los Angeles and wonders what took so long.
Annette Bicker has spent the last two years in the Bay Area, where she has discovered that dragons are colored a deep blue-green.
deborah brandon loves a good pair of socks.  See her work at www.yoursavedlife.com.
Roxanne Carter is waiting patiently for the first signs of spring and the last frost in Providence, RI. www.persephassa.com
Andrew Choate would like to live like Kant in Konigsberg.
Leigh Marie Elizabeth Dodson learns to wave away the drink with a goodbyewrist. leighmarie.
Mariam Firunts lives in Los Angeles where she likes to get lost in the aisles of deco film theatres. www.thecinematheque.org
Alexa Forrester is a graduate student, studying poetry and philosophy at University of Michigan.
Yuriko Furuhata, in the pit of dissertation writing, was rescued by Roxi and Braxton's project.
Ryan Hildebrand. I am a gardener/janitor/rare book cataloger living on California's Central Coast with wife and child. godforesaken
Kirk Keen is an electrician from Boston. glimmerkirk
Benjamin Lau - He takes figure skating lessons every Thursday from a man who placed in the lower Top 10 in Nationals in the mid-80s, and on Sundays plays in a string quartet that covers late 80s hip-hop and at night hosts a pirate radio show. quick_impulses
Linda Liu is a grad student at Brown University.  She has several all-consuming obsessions.
Hanne Piasecki is loveliest in spring and when watered regularly. comes in all sorts of pink hues. www.hannepiasecki.com
Teja L Ream. Pirates, photos, videos, installations, words, pages, books, birds, femme fatales, music, stickers and deadly stiletto heels. www.tejaream.com
Sarah L. Reiter grew up in Pennsylvania, quite near the auspice of animals fleeing underground mine fires and has been trying to outrun that legacy ever since.
julie levin russo is obsessed...www.julieis.net
A. Braxton Soderman wears coffee-stained shirts and is affiliated with www.thefollowingphrases.com
Russel Swenson’s work has appeared in The LA Weekly, Salt Lake City Weekly, Mean Street, NoHoLa, West Coast Performer's Magazine, Quarterly West, & The Black Clock. scribble
I am J Dwight Tudor and what it means to be me involves multiple definitions—some archaic, some prosaic, some devolving with the futuristic parade of knee-jerk slang dangling from unpainted graffiti serif-drips - of the words: gay, somnambule, refrain, passé, Hemingwane, display, plain and untrained by the underburdened, overpaid non-union academy (I love America and America loves me, I know where you live, I see through your TV).
Jen Tynes lives in Providence, Rhode Island and edits horse less press. www.horselesspress.com