Ish Klein's book, Union! came out April 2009 through the Canarium Press. Her book, For the New Manchurians, will come out from the Canarium Press in 2011. There will be an accompanying dvd of her videos which will be published by Poor Claudia of Portland Oregon. Her poems have been printed in The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat magazine, The Recluse, H NGM N, Saltgrass, Lungfull! and other publications. She also makes movies, puppets and plays. See the videos: www.youtube.com/user/ishkleinfilms

A Chicago resident, John Beer is the author of the poetry collection The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010). Associative and imaginative, his work has been compared to that of John Ashbery. Poet Lewis Warsh wrote that The Waste Land and Other Poems “embraces and distills ”˜the bad dream' and all ”˜the muck' of the recent past, but the momentum of this book is full speed ahead.” Beer's criticism has appeared in Verse, the Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, and other magazines. He is a theater columnist for Time Out Chicago.