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Greg Sanders lives in the East Village and earns his living as a technical writer. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, and Opium Magazine. His first collection of short stories, Motel Girl, was published by Red Hen Press in 2008. He is currently at work on a novel and a second collection of stories.

Annie La Ganga is a poet, performer, and visual artist.  She has worked as a waitress, a file clerk, a substitute teacher, a cake decorator, and a shoplifter.  She is the author of the prose-poetry collection, Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints (Red Hen Press). She is the author and illustrator of several zines and chapbooks, including the feminist comic book series And Everything Nice (AK Press).  She was a member of the 1999 Seattle Poetry Slam team, a performer with Sister Spit’s All Girl Poetry Circus and Rambling Road Show, and the lead singer and songwriter of the punk rock band Pink Chihuahua.  She is a committed arts activist and was awarded the Travis County Sheriff’s 2002 Volunteer of the Year Award for her work as a life drawing teacher at Del Valle Jail.  She lives in Austin, Texas with her long time boyfriend, the novelist Bill Cotter.

Bill Cotter was born in Dallas in 1964, and has labored as an antiquarian book dealer and restorer since 2000. He presently lives in Austin with his girlfriend, the poet Annie La Ganga, and Travis, an inextinguishable roach who divides his time between the shower and the silverware drawer. His (Bill’s) first novel, Fever Chart (McSweeney’s), is freshly published and may be acquired at any tasteful bookseller’s. Bill is at work on his second novel.