HOTTHOUSE : issue 2: contributors

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GINA ABELKOP’s heart belongs to her lady friends, Carson McCullers, and Ava the pug. www.birdsoflace.com

AMY BONNER everything, every day, every minute, every second, every piece of sand, every grain of salt. It's all out there - grasp it. www.amydraw.com

ROXANNE CARTER lives in Providence, Rhode Island, which is not actually an island, though its shores are traversed by many boats, and guarded by a singular picturesque lighthouse. There she spends her time obsessively folding paper in an almost frightening manner, trouncing to downcity in clumsy high-heeled shoes, and reading biographies of famous and glamorous women (while in bed, with a calico cat curled up by her side). You may visit her at www.persephassa.com

JESSE CASTALDI lives in Lynn, Massachusetts and would probably write more if her job were not quite so grown up. Her house is between a pond and an ocean, and it has a large kitchen in which you are welcome to come and sit, any time. www.milkandink.persnicket.net

ANDREW CHOATE would like to live like Kant in Konigsberg.

MATT CIPOV Please let me make what I need to make. I tell this to you and myself.

CARRIE GABELLA enjoys holding her breath underwater, drinking iced tea and rubbing her dog's belly. Visit her at: www.sitbyme.net.

RYAN AND HILARIE HILDEBRAND live with their son and cat in Costa Mesa, California but lived in Morro Bay on the 4th of July when these photographs and recordings were made. They prefer the central coast to Orange County.

AKIKO INOUE BFA in painting from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. MA in art education from Brooklyn College, NY. (soon). I would like to be an art teacher at an elementary school. akikoinoue29 AT yahoo.co.jp

KIRK KEEN lives in Lynn, Massachusetts and incorporates light into the entertainment business. When driving he secretly pretends his car is a horse. You might have seen other work of his published by Persephassa, Horse Less Press, or Stirring.

SARA LANDO currently lives in Milan, where she graduated in Industrial Design and now performs as a Moose Tamer in a travelling circus. Takes pictures because it is cheaper than a shrink. www.mooserental.com

EMILY CAMILLA LEHR has called portland, oregon home for many years. she hesitates to call herself a writer.

STANLEY LIEBER will construct your sentences for you -- even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent -- and at need he will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear. www.stanleylieber.com

ALESSANDRO LOCATELLI is a pirate architect with a strong interest for anything visual or anything he can communicate to with a controller. www.porno4pandas.com

RYAN MEHAN I am currently a bookseller in Manhattan. While this is not exactly the destination I had in mind for myself after a BA in Literature and Creative Writing made me the highly marketable young item that I am today, it is nevertheless a pleasant way to spend my time for now. Of course, I have a much grander vision of the future, but I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise. ryrymehan AT hotmail.com

NATE PRITTS is the editor of H_NGM_N, & the author of three chapbooks; the most recent, The Happy Seasons, is available online from Swannigan & Wright. Other poems have appeared/will be in The Southern Review, Pool, & Forklift, Ohio, as well as DIAGRAM, horse less review, storySouth, TYPO & 42opus. Nate is an Assistant Professor of English as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA where he lives with his wife Rhonda, & the kids: Kate, Dylan & Laney (& Oscar the dog). www.h-ngm-n.com

In the month of July, JOHANNA RANDALL REED started writing her third novel, guerilla-style, at work, clicking from screen to screen when the boss comes in. Wish her luck that this manuscript will join the family of two other books, published on her own Freckle Press. nellymunk AT yahoo.com / website for her band: www.thenelliemonk.com

TEJA REAM photos, pirates, femme fatales, videos, installations, words, pages, books, birds, stickers, beauty, and deadly stiletto heels. www.tejaream.com

STEPHEN J RIVELE is the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Oliver Stone’s Nixon, and of Will Smith’s Ali, both of which he wrote with Christopher Wilkinson. Rivele and Wilkinson are currently producing their screenplay, Copying Beethoven, about the last year of the composer’s life. Rivele is also the author of seven books, including the best-selling novel, A Booke of Days, about the First Crusade, and the best-seller, The Plumber, a true story about the Mafia. Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Rivele attended St. Joseph’s University, the University of Montpellier (France), and Swarthmore College. He holds a French master’s degree in Filmmaking from the Paris Film Conservatory, of which he was the first American graduate.

TESS EMILY RODRIGUEZ is a self-taught illustrator/artist. she currently resides in portland, oregon, where she likes to play croquet, collect odds and ends from here and there, and read about serial killers. more of her art can be viewed at her website: teacups.darkspire.net

BRAXTON SODERMAN walks 1.7 miles in each direction on his solitary stroll to campus, during which he often sees two unicorns (or are they zebras?), one hothouse, and abundant hairline cracks in the sidewalk. www.thefollowingphrases.com

LEIGH STEIN was born in Chicago and lives in a perpetual state of nostalgia. www.maps.persephassa.com

JULIANA SWANEY graduated college with a BFA in Printmaking in 2005. With a love for intaglio, silkscreen, and artist books she currently lives and works in Portland, Maine. www.ohmycavalier.com

KATHARINE TILLMAN grew up in Statesboro, Georgia. She now lives in New York City and can be found online at www.villanelle.org.

JEN TYNES lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and edits horse less press. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Indiana Review, Factorial, jubilat, TYPO, New Hampshire Review, and DIAGRAM. www.horselesspress.com

SHAWN ARON VANDOR resides in Portland, Oregon.