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contributors

Shane Allison has always wanted to be a famous writer and filmmaker.  his debut volume of poems, Slut Machine is out from Queer Mojo.

Rae Armantrout’s last book, Versed, won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award.  her next book, Money Shot, is coming out from Wesleyan in January or February.

Jim Behrle lives in Brooklyn and is unemployed.  he plans to change his name legally to American Poetry in the coming weeks.

Dodie Bellamy is a poet/essayist/memoirist/and fiction-y writer who lives in San Francisco.  “Family Jewels” is a tribute to the “Collectors Edition” DVD cover for Hitchcock’s Marnie, which can be seen here.

Melissa Benham was not born in the woods to be scared by an owl, but believes she’s seen the elephant once, maybe even twice.  presently, she lives lakeside with a ruffian girl and a man who talks like a book and thinks she’s a huckleberry above a persimmon.

Bill Berkson’s most recent books are Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); Lady Air (Perdika Press); and Not an Exit (Jungle Garden Press) with drawings by Léonie Guyer.  he was awarded the 2010 Balcones Prize for Poetry.

Stephen Boyer would like to thank SHAMPOO for publishing these two poems that are part of a chapbook entitled Ghosts put out by BentBoyBooks.  he also manages an arts blog called minor progression.

Taylor Brady is the author of several books of poetry and prose.  For I Know Not What I Did Last Summer is forthcoming in 2011 from Trafficker Press, and a second edition of Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern, is on its way from Displaced Press.  he lives in San Francisco and is active in the Nonsite Collective.

Brandon Brown is a poet from Kansas City, Missouri.  he is the author of several chapbooks and the forthcoming books The Persians By Aeschylus (Displaced Press) and The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (Krupskaya).  he lives in San Francisco with a cheesemonger and a cinephile.

Craig Cady never washes his hair.  seriously, he hacked it into a crappy, mohawk-like shape twice this year and didn’t touch it beyond that.  his muse//writer’s block is a musically-inclined leporid living in New York City.

Sabrina Calle would not consider herself an “Animal Lover,” will never own a car, worries credit rating will be an issue for child adoption, said NO to Colorado 62, and has been working on a map of the stupid world for the same stupid 5 stupid years.  she lives and works in Boulder, Colorado and is very, very happy.  here is proof.

Otto Chan : whiteRaven : prototype.

Joseph Chapman’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Cincinnati Review, BOMBlog, and other journals “less hip than SHAMPOO”.  he uses herbal conditioner along with industrial strength shampoo; this detail is indicative of other contradictions in his life.  he is currently a lecturer in the dark arts of rhetoric at the University of Michigan.  the footnote at the end of “[These poems have been illusory]” is from Rick Worland’s critical study The Horror Film: An Introduction.

Justin Chin is a classically trained castanetist.  his 4th CD, The Castanets of Grief, will be released in January 2011.  he lives in San Francisco.

Bryan Coffelt lives in Portland, Oregon.  stomp stomp stomp.  “you hear that?  he is a private company categorized under ‘soybeans’.”

Sean Cole is a reporter for the public radio program Marketplace, and other shows. he lives, and works, at home.

William Corbett’s essay Albert York on the painter appeared this summer from Pressed Wafer.  in January 2011, Hanging Loose Press will publish The Whalen Poem.

Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch are the authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010).  they recently completed another collaborative manuscript called Conversations over Stolen Food.  one of them also stole shampoo.

Bruce Covey is the author of Glass Is Really a Liquid (No Tell Books, 2010) and Reveal (Black Radish, 2010), his fourth and fifth collections of poetry.  he lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches at Emory University, edits Coconut Poetry, and curates the What’s New in Poetry reading series.

noted curmudgeon Alex Crowley gained a middling sum of attention following his lecture series, “On the Primacy of Macchu Picchu Among the Ancient Ruins of Civilised Societies”.  he is a member in good standing of the North American Hair-Farmer’s Association (NAHFA) and a former associate editor of NASA Employees’ Literary Quarterly.

Brent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his wife and daughter.  his first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005, and his second, Journey to the Sun, is forthcoming in 2011.  when he was thirteen he wanted to be a professional magician.

P. Edward Cunningham has “fun” and “fearless” hair.  he tried Pantene once at a friend’s house and it was okay.  he has written an ebook of poems, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Pangur Ban Party, 2010) and he co-edits Radioactive Moat.

Susie DeFord is a poet and writer who runs her own dog walking, training, and pet sitting business, Susie’s Pet Care, in Brooklyn, New York.

Melissa Eleftherion’s recent work can be found in Letterbox Magazine, There, Cricket Online Review, and MiPOesias.  she also infrequently blogs when she’s not peeling the boy child from the wall or working her day job.  she’s considering going no-poo.

Elaine Equi’s most recent book is Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems from Coffee House Press.  a new collection, Click and Clone, is forthcoming in spring 2011.  she teaches at New York University and in the MFA programs at The New School and City College of New York.

Essential Films is a production and post-production digital film studio located in Berkeley, California.  using a mix of cinematic styles and sensibilities we aspire to unearth the very essence of our clients’ work, life philosophy, and aesthetic, so that they can share their skills, talents, and business concepts with the world in a specific and strategic way.

Adam Fagin combines his traditional neurotic personality with some classic slapstick and comes up with a winner.  he currently lives in Oakland, California.

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in The Southeast Review, and/or, Dark Sky Magazine, moria, of(f) course, BlazeVOX, etc.  her chapbook Cleaving won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007, and her first poetry book Feet First was published in November 2010 by Evening Street Press.

Thomas Fink, author of Clarity and Other Poems (Marsh Hawk, 2008) and four prior collections, as well as Autopsy Turvy (Meritage, 2010), a collaboration with Maya Diablo Mason, recently stayed for a week in Japan, and on the first night, he bought a lemon scented shampoo that, he was told by a friend, could also double as a body wash.  somehow, it worked.

Rachel Finkelstein’s work has appeared in Prick of The Spindle and Columbia Poetry Review.  biotin shampoo helped her achieve Rapunzel hair as well as getting the lock down on luxurious poetry magazines such as SHAMPOO.  infomercials may be in her future.

Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch are the authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010).  they recently completed another collaborative manuscript called Conversations over Stolen Food.  Fitch’s Not Intelligent, but Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive.

Leora Fridman is a writer, translator and educator living in Massachusetts.  her recent and forthcoming publications are included in elimae, The New Delta Review, Jellyfish, and others.  she especially enjoys cross-referencing wash products, and using dishwashing soap on her hands.

Robert Glück writes poetry and fiction. I, Boombox is made from Glück’s misreadings, so it is a kind of autobiography composed of dreams that occurred on the page.  with I, Boombox, Glück has invented a new genre of literature, Creative Nonpoetry.

Carolyn Gregory has published poems in American Poetry Review, Seattle Review, Bellowing Ark, and Off the Coast.  her second book, Scenario, is scheduled to appear in 2011.  she is an avid shampooer and has nice highlights!

Jaimie Gusman is originally from Florida.  her childhood was spent feeding alligators and burning (all) religious texts.  she has since changed her ways, living in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she writes poems, blogs, and eats copious amounts of raw fish.

Kallima Hamilton lives near a marsh in Michigan, where she enjoys watching birds and deer, the slow turning of leaf colors in the fall.  big fan of Yimou films.  she is a literacy and English as Second Language tutor.  her poetry has appeared in Ekphrasis and Shenandoah.

Yuri Hospodar writes poems sometimes.  he is currently herding rainbow lorikeets in his yard in Australia.

Paul Hostovsky played a lot of frisbee and smoked a lot of pot during his formative years, which is how he is able to write poems that are intoxicatingly interesting and have lift.  check out his website.

Chinedu Jonathan Ichu is a Nigerian writer, 35 years old, and married.

Paolo Javier is the 2010-13 Queens Borough Poet Laureate.  he is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, including The Feeling Is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press, Fall 2011).  Javier edits 2nd Avenue Poetry, and curates two reading series in New York City: PRJCTNS, devoted to live film narration and performance; and Queens Poet Lore, a roving poetry series set across the borough.

Becca Jensen’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Slope, Now Culture, Thermos, and Word for/Word.  she believes in astrology, half sour pickles, Noxzema, and the idea of things.  currently she lives in Los Angeles, gathering information.

Matthew Johnstone studied poetry at University of California Santa Cruz and now does it all day, every day.  his writing has appeared, or is soon out, in Moria, Nth Position, and Anemone Sidecar.  “Do not stare the ridge” is from his first collection of poems, Let’s be close Rope to mast, you Old light, forthcoming from Blue & Yellow Dog Press.  he currently lives just south of San Francisco and washes his hair every third day.

Jill Jones’s latest book is Dark Bright Doors (Wakefield, 2010).  in 2009, she co-edited, with Michael Farrell, an anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets.  she got a brand new hairbrush recently and the do is now smoother and shinier.

Alexander Jorgensen’s visual poetry and writings most recently appear or are forthcoming in VLAK, Drunken Boat, Moria, GRASP, The Return of Kral Majales: Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010, and The Last Vispo Anthology.  “Letters to a Younger Poet,” correspondences with the late Robert Creeley, appears in Jacket issue 31.  he has been chosen to participate in 2011’s Text Festival in Bury, United Kingdom.

Larry Kearney has no academic credentials and a poor attitude, and his tendency to describe poems as true or untrue has further clouded his reputation.  of his work, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu has said, ‘I’m dead, what do I know?’

Kevin Killian is a novelist, poet, and playwright from San Francisco.  he is the guest editor of the latest edition of THE BEST GAY EROTICA 2011 (Cleis Press) and recently moderated a panel at the MLA Convention on poets theater.

Jack Kimball has washed several men out of his hair, thanks to SHAMPOO!  he blogs here.

Rodney Koeneke can’t imagine these 10 online years, especially the last 4 of them in Portland, Oregon, without SHAMPOO.

Cassie Lewis (also known as Cassie Lewis-Getman) lives with her husband and baby daughter in upstate New York.  originally from Australia, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as a child spent time in Southeast Asia.  she is beginning to write again after a long sabbatical.

D.W. Lichtenberg was, until recently, a brontosaurus.  now he has identity issues.

Emily Liebowitz is a young poet from the San Francisco Bay Area.  she spends most of her time talking about television and is best known for her two most distinctive traits: a severe hand tremor and exceptional hair.

Blake Lynch’s work appeared most recently in 491, and his chapbook, The Bearded Woman and Other Poems is forthcoming.  he is far past that redhead in Azusa.

m.g. martin is writing this bio from the Shinjuku area of Tokyo.  he is the author of One For None (Ink).  spam musubi is his favorite food, ever.

Catherine Meng lives in Berkeley, California.  her first book of poems, Tonight’s the Night, was published in 2007 by Apostrophe Books.  she is thrilled to be a part of SHAMPOO’s 10th anniversary issue.‘  according to About.com, a traditional gift on a 10th anniversary is tin or aluminum.

Scott Metz is the editor of Roadrunner, and blog editor for The Haiku Foundation.  he is currently at work coediting an anthology of 21st century English-language haiku to be published in 2011.  he prefers lavender in his shampoo, soap, and ice cream.

Trey Moody is from Texas but lives in Nebraska.  he likes Jennifer and the weather; he doesn’t like gluten or thinking too much about what to wear.  he wrote Climate Reply (New Michigan Press, 2010).

Debrah Morkun sways between the poles of intense socializing and strict poetic hermitage.  she enjoys milking century maids and journeying between the pits of infancy and the pieces of herself she’s left scattered across the country.  from a computer screen in Portland, Oregon she has leveled legerdemain.  she returns to Philadelphia soon, with a new haircut, a lunar crescent tattoo, and a very naked earthworm.  visit Debrah here.  and visit her poetry friends right here.

Billy X. O’Brien has lived and worked in the Boston area for most of his life.  he has been involved in HIV-related work since 1998.  he experiments with music production software to figure out ways to merge poetry and electronic music – two of his big interests since he first heard house music in the early 1990s and read Emily Dickinson in school.

Ron Palmer lives and works in San Francisco.  he’s grateful for 10 years of SHAMPOO in the world, grateful for Del Ray Cross in the world, grateful for Stephanie Young in the world, grateful for friends and writers, writers who are friends in the world.  and lots, so much, more.

Michael Pontacoloni's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere.  Michael Pontacoloni has appeared or is forthcoming in Windsor, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; Lake Placid, New York; and elsewhere.  oh, patio.

Kris Raido is a Pacific Northwest poet.  she has forty words for rain and seventy-two ways to order coffee, and gives bonus points for knowing which terrible early-90s television series that is from.  her master’s degree in Experimental Psychology means that you can safely assume there’s something terribly wrong with her.

Beni Ransom lives near a hot tub in Seattle.  a good sidecar never hurt anyone, ice cold.  says ‘more people should read Novalis.’

Dennis Riley is a third generation Brooklynite, is an emerging photographer, avid fan of all things New York, historian, licensed tour guide, and some-times dog walker.  to pay the bills he is a long-time bureaucrat.

Mg Roberts is delighted to be in SHAMPOO’s 10th Anniversary issue.  her hair lives in Oakland with her two daughters, two hens, and husband.  it is very long.

Kit Robinson recently stopped using shampoo partly on advice of his hair stylist but mostly because it ran out and he keeps forgetting to buy some.  Kit’s recent books are Determination (Cuneiform, 2010), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009), and Train I Ride (BookThug, 2009).  also, he is a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, 2006-2010).  a practicing musician, Kit plays Cuban tres guitar in the Latin dance band Bahia Son.

yo.  Meg Ronan’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cricket Online Review, Interim, LEVELER, and other lovely journals.  she blogs about fashion and poems and songs at Oh, Young Lions.  she will give you a tarot reading if you ask nicely.  so many people can’t wait to see her.

RussWade is a collaboration between a San Francisco poet and a Boston composer.  for more information check out RussWade on SoundCloud.

Chad Scheel is trying to untangle his headphone cord.  has poems some places to be found.

Tim Shaner’s work has appeared in Jacket, Kiosk, P-Queue, 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, The Portable Lower Eastside, Ambit (UK), The Rialto (UK), and other magazines.  he is the co-editor of Wig, a magazine devoted to poetry written on the job, and curates A New Poetry Series in Eugene, Oregon.  when he isn’t busy loafing or attending to his duties as the Director of the Institute of Loafing, Dr. Shaner passes his time as a full-time part-timer at Lane Community College and Umpqua Community College where he teaches students how to write academic papers and practice critical thinking.

Malcolm Sinclair born in Scotland and has a BA in art.  he has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark for many years.  his translations of Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poetry appeared in the London Magazine, Poetry London, 3rd bed, Eclectica Magazine, The Underground Voices (USA), in the chapbook “These Extraordinary People” (erbacce-press, Liverpool, UK 2008) and in Our Flying Objects (Equipage Press, Cambridge, UK 2007).  he has a very nice dog called Lucky.

Suzanne Stein is a poet, publisher, and the community producer at SFMOMA; she is editor of the SFMOMA blog, Open Space.  her chapbooks are HOLE IN SPACE, Tout va bien, and Passenger Ship; her first book, TOUT VA BIEN, is forthcoming from Displaced Press this spring.

Louisa Storer lives in New York with her boyfriend, dog, and cat, and is contemplating a group move to the Bronx.  seriously.  when not writing poetry or working as a children’s librarian, she currently enjoys outfits involving short shorts, Indian summer, and late nineties fiction.  her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Big City Lit and Cake Train.

Dawn Sueoka lives in Hawaii.  her work appears in Fast Forward, Monkey Puzzle, The Bathroom, West Wind Review, Flaneur Foundry, and Noo Weekly, and her chapbook, Little Uglies, is forthcoming from The Bathroom Press.  she’s sorry, but she smoked your cigars.

Benmina Taquito lives in Brooklyn, New York with a mind in several states.  she’s working on a complete catalog of poems with starlings in them.  she can be tracked down at The Benmina Taquito Situation.

Halie Theoharides is a mystic anarchist.  she was raised in the foothills of Western Massachusetts and studied studio art at Smith College.

Joseph Torra is a poet and novelist.  he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.  his newest novel is What’s So Funny (Pressed Wafer Press) and his prose poem journal, Time Being, is forthcoming from Quale Press.

Tim Vander Meulen - a student at Providence Christian College and an aspiring author of many books and poems to come, with a special interest in lemonade over carbonated drinks any day.

Dana Ward is the author of This Can’t Be Life, forthcoming in 2011 from Edge Books.  he lives in Cincinnati.

Alli Warren is weighed down by causal encounters and an overactive ear.  her newest chapbook is Acting Out (Editions Louis Wain).

Elizabeth Witte lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, works, and eats.

Valerie Witte is originally from St. Louis and has published poems in such places as VOLT, Eleven Eleven, Interim, and Faultline.  she owns approximately a dozen hats and is not allowed to paint her walls.

Tim Wright lives in the flatlands of Melbourne.  currently enjoys mineral water, small televisions, heat...

Grzegorz Wróblewski, born in 1962 in Gdansk and raised in Warsaw, has lived in Copenhagen since 1985.  he has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces in Poland; three books of poetry, a book of poetic prose and an experimental novel (translations) in Denmark; and a book of selected poems in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as a selection of plays.  his work has been translated into ten languages.  the English translations of his poems include selected poems Our Flying Objects (Equipage Press, Cambridge, UK 2007), and new and selected poems A Marzipan Factory (Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2010).  he likes The Clash and Joe Strummer very, very much...

Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland.  she’s grateful for 10 years of SHAMPOO in the world, grateful for Del Ray Cross in the world, grateful for Ron Palmer in the world, grateful for friends and writers, writers who are friends in the world.  and lots, so much, more.

Tim Yu thanks SHAMPOO for keeping him squeaky clean for the past decade.  his shiny tresses were last spotted in Madison, Wisconsin.

     
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