Jen Hofer & Daniel Machlin January 30, 2008

Jen Hofer’s recent and forthcoming publications include lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007); PUREsexSWIFTsex and September, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath and Kenning Editions, 2007); Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003); slide rule (subpress, 2002); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), Laws (Dusie Books, 2008); and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2008). She has published poems and translations in numerous small-press publications, including 1913, Aufgabe, Circumference, The Brooklyn Rail, eoagh, Jacket, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Mar con Soroche, and War and Peace. Jen lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics at CalArts and works as a court interpreter. She is a member of the Little Fakers collective which creates and produces Sunset Chronicles, a neighborhood-based serial episodic drama populated entirely by hand-made marionettes inhabiting lost, abandoned and ghost spaces in Los Angeles, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls. Dan Machlin was born and raised in NYC. His first book-length collection of poems Dear Body: was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in September 2007. Previous works include several chapbooks: 6x7 (Ugly Duckling), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer Press), and In Rem (@ Press), as well as Above Islands (Immanent Audio), an audio CD collaboration with singer/cellist Serena Jost. His poems and reviews have appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Crayon, and Soft Targets. Dan is founding editor and publisher of Futurepoem books, and a former co-curator of The Segue Series at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.