Authors
Jhon Clark
Jhon Clark lives in Detroit, fixes houses, including
his own. His is an community type activist, stares a
lot, enjoys things and finds them. Dispatch Vol. 8
has published his poems. He was an UpsidedownCulture
Collective member, a Detroit group who were
responsible for much mayhem preceding the US invasion
of Afghanistan and Iraq, including the book All The
Days After: critical voices in poetry and artwork,
2003. He is trying to get back to his blog
www.upsidedownhouse.blogspot.com, if Dick Cheney would
ever leave him alone
James Keith La Croix
James Keith La Croix has written professionally for diverse periodicals from the music industry technical journal Music, Computers & Software to Detroit's alternative weekly The Metro Times. His poetry has been published in the Detroit literary and arts anthology Dispatch Vol. 8. His first collection, which is currently untitled, is forthcoming with white print inc (08).
Mariela Griffor
Mariela Griffor was born in the city of Concepcion in southern Chile. She is author of Exiliana (Luna Publications) and House (Mayapple Press). She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. She is co-founder of The Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and Publisher of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in periodicals across Latin America and the United States.
Kim D. Hunter
Kim D. Hunter is Co-Director of the Poetry @ the Zeitgeist in Detroit. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, The MetroTimes, Dispatch and Graffiti Rag. Past Tents Press published his first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. His work also appears in Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African-American Poetry (Miami University Press).
Glen Mannisto
Steven Priest
Carly Sachs
Carly Sachs is the author of the steam sequence (Washington Writer’s Publishing House) and the editor of the why and later (Deep Cleveland Press). She teaches creative writing at George Washington University and is currently an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute. Her poems have been published in Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Coconut, Goodfoot, poemmemoirstory, Runes Review, and anthologized in Best American Poetry 2004, Regrets Only (Little Pear Press), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and Literary Lunch (Knoxville Writers’ Guild). Her second collection, (currently untitled) will appear in 2010 (white print inc).