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Adam Pendelton

Adam Pendleton was born in Richmond, Virginia and has exhibited widely throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions with Yvon Lambert in New York, Rhona Hoffman in Chicago and Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles. His first book of poetry "so i independent in georgia in the 90's" was published by Yvon Lambert in 2006. He is represented by Perry Rubenstein in New York.
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Amber Hofler

Amber Hofler was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is presently a student at ECPI College of Technology off Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, VA. She is currently pursuing an A.A.S. degreee in Computer & Information Science Major in Information Technology/Web Design. She will graduate February of 2007. For her internship she was assinged the task of creating, the Summer 2006 Editon of the Emergency Press Almanac. She is looking to get a job working for an established company in her field of study. Her future goal is to start her own business.
Email: aahoffler@hotmail.com   ambhof2136@vbch.ecpi.edu
Phone: 757-588-3964
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Arthur

Arthur is a man from Brooklyn who served as a grave digger in WWII. While a manager in a café in Williamsburg, the editor often received these long notations Arthur used as IOU's for a cup of coffee. These offerings were often described as the amount of money Arthur would be receiving when he got his next Social Security check in the mail.
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Brian Belott

Brian Belott is an artist and collector of found art. His work has appeared in galleries worldwide, including Atelier Cardenas Bellanger in Paris, Canada in New York City, Counter Gallery in London, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, Galeria Comercial in San Juan, and Galleri Loyal in Stockholm. The photographs featured in Emergency Almanac were found.
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Chad Faries

Chad Faries lives outside the United States whenever he can. He has been known to document the European underworld while fulfilling his duties as a Fulbright Fellow in Budapest. He was the co-winner of the Emergency Press annual book contest in 2005, and his book, The Border Will Be Soon, will be released in September, 2006.
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Christopher Patton

Christopher Patton won The Paris Review's 2000 Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry. He teaches creative writing and literature at Arcadia University in Philadelphia
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Christopher Stackhouse

Christopher Stackhouse is a writer and painter living in Brooklyn. He is co-author of the book Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), featuring his drawings in discourse with the poetic text of writer/professor John Keene.
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Dan Golden

Dan Golden is an artist aqnd cartoonist living and working in Jersey City,
New Jersey. His work has recently appeared in exhibitions at the Dumbo Arts
Center in Brooklyn. His dog is named Nutley. Dan Golden is also the creator of the pop up faces displayed on the main page of this issue of the almanac. (Emergency Almanac Summer 2006)
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Elisabeth Kinsey

Elisabeth Kinsey received her BA at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has published poetry in Wazee Journal, Metrosphere, won first prize in Writes of Spring, published articles in YourHub.com and The Metropolitan and has two short stories in the Women's Writing Anothology: The Self That Was Her Story.
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Ernest Loesser

Ernest Loesser is a writer and journalist in New York City. His non-fiction has appeared in Tokion; in his most recent work, The Fix, he investigated the underground network of former addicts in New York and across the US conducting addiction-interruption therapy with the illegal substance Ibogaine. His fiction has appeared in Anathema and the High Horse Zeitung published in London. He lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Frank Fields

Frank Fields hales from Toad Suck, Arkansas where he spent his childhood aniticipating the annual Toad Suck Daze Festival.Located on the Arkansas River, this place was a popular spot for the bargemen to pull over and drink rum and moonshine. They are said to have "sucked on bottles until they swelled up like toads." Though not a bargeman, Frank has been known to keep the tradition alive. This is the first piece Frank has ever shared with anyone, though he has been writing longer than Methuselah walked the earth.
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Henry Williams

Henry Williams was born and raised in the piedmont of North Carolina; he currently resides and works in New York. His poems have appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, Fire (Oxfordshire), The Brooklyn Review, The Emergency Almanac, Offerta Speciale (Torino), among others.
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Jayson Iwen

Jayson Iwen has had work published in journals such as New American Writing, Clackamas Literary Review, Fence, The Cream City Review, Poetry Motel, and Southern Indiana Review, An interview he conducted with Paul Hoover was recently reprinted in Fables of Representation, by the University of Michigan Press. He has work forthcoming in Onthebus, The Marlboro Review, Third Coast, and REED. Jayson is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, where he lives with his wife and three cats, and where he recently ran his first marathon. He was the co-winner of the Emergency Press annual book contest in 2005, and his book, Six Trips in Two Directions, will be released in September, 2006.
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Jenny Benjamin Smith

Jenny Benjamin Smith has had poems published in the New York Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Wisconsin Review, Iowa Woman, Columbia, and Crab Orchard Review. She has poems forthcoming in the South Carolina Review, Chelsea, The Baltimore Review, Hubbub, and Carquinez Poetry Review. She teaches literature to high school students in Milwaukee.
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Kathleen Eull

Kathleen Eull lives and writes in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She is currently working on her first novel and is preparing to return to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for graduate studies.
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Kevin Gallagher

Kevin Gallagher teaches at Boston University and lives in Gloucester,MA with his wife and newborn son. His poetry has been published in Harvard Review, Partisan Review, Green Mountains Review, LitVert, Jacket, and elsewhere. His recent books are Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO, and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.
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Matthew Chase

Matthew Chase is a Brooklyn artist who constructs intricate, organic sculptures and installations from materials found on the sidewalk, such as gum, plastic, and discarded paper. His work explores our relationship to nature and our urban environment, by reworking the brightly colored detritus of our consumption, into forms derived from the biology of decay. He creates his own ecology, flora, fungi, nests and invertebrates, which are installed as if infesting the site. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he has shown in New York, Boston and Providence.
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Pearl Blauvelt

(1893-1987) Pearl Blauvelt's mysterious drawings lay undisturbed in a wooden fruit crate for forty years until their recent discovery in her abandoned residence in a remote area of northern Pennsylvania.
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Timothy Marvel Hull

Timothy Marvel Hull was born May 30th, 1979 in New York City to Richard and Josephine Hull, a professor of African history at NYU and a Batik artist and Caterer respectively. Hull was raised in the bucolic craft community of Sugar Loaf, New York, 50 miles NW of New York City. Hull attended the progressive Hampshire College in 1997-98 yet he received his BA from New York University in 2001, and studied at the Museo Pecci in Prato, Italy as well as the Studio Marangoni in Florence. He attended an Artist in Residence program in Berlin, Germany for the Occidental Development Foundation International in 2003 and 2004 and has been exhibiting his art work in various venues in New York as well as internationally since 2002. Hull divides his time between the urban New York City and the family Apple farm in Warwick, New York. He will receice his MFA from the Parsons School of Design in 2006.
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