uprightdown
contributors


contributors

URD # 1

Julia Price Baron (IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU I MIGHT NOT BE STUCK HERE) works in television. She has produced several literary magazines and comics, including The Misprint, and High School Teachers.

Lee Berman (THE THREE BELLS) is the editor of UpRightDown. He is working on a novel entitled Frankanna.

Marie Borochoff (RUTH'S TRUTH) is working on a collection of short fiction provisionally entitled Postcards to Antarctica.

Vera Broichhagen (I DIDN'T FINISH MY DESSERT) is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University. She teaches Latin American and German literature at Paris 8 Université de Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Perdita Bryce (IMAGES AND WORDS) was already reborn around Canis Maior in her Döppelganger's imagination when the guy realized (on the 19th of August in 1958--and traumatically enough) that he would not live in apn(o)ea for the rest of his life. He reads, she writes.

Ann Buechner (9:29 AM) was born in South Korea, and she grew up in Madison, WI. She earned her MFA from Cornell University in 2004. Her poems have appeared in Barrelhouse, Equilibrium, and The Madison Review. She lives in Busan, South Korea.
Zehavit Carmel (SIDE CHICKS) is an Israeli artist and illustrator. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Jerusalem, and elsewhere. She has illustrated several children's books, notably the Hebrew edition of Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez.
Edith de Cornulier-Lucinière (HEIMLICH AT THE CHIEN QUI FUME) is the creator of the web site AlmaSoror and the organizer of VillaBar, a collective photofictional experiement. She is the author of children's books, notably Nous, les loups.

Susan Dahl (A FAG, A HAG, A DRAG) is a poet and visual artist. Her work has appeared in The American Review, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Sulfur, and is forthcoming in The Everette Review.

Marie Daillancourt (LAST SUMMER) graduated from business school but is looking for a new direction. She is a co-founder of the theater troupe La Dix Compagnie.

Carlos Diamond (ALIVE AGAIN IN PARIS) has abandoned writing in favor of animation. His fiction has appeared in various small publications in Canada, notably The Rabelaisian.

Robert Dillar (MISSING MISSISSIPPI) lives in Great Neck, NY, and works on Wall Street. He dropped out of Yale in 1992.

Martin Dockery (I KNOW THIS GUY) is a frequent storyteller in NYC. He just completed a sold-out run of his extemporaneous monologue Wanderlust. This Summer, he will be performing with The Liar Show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
personal site

Meliora Dockery (DEAR ABBY) has a degree in theater arts and in hotel management, which clearly has led her to be a globe-trotting, self-employed corporate trainer. She is Martin Dockery's mother.

Alicia Dreilinger (LENSES) is a writer and artist who lives and works in New York City. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New School University. Contact Alicia (aliciabethd at bellsouth dot net).

Lara Jane Dunatov (I HAD HIM FIRST) is a New York comedienne and member of the sketch comedy group Spurn.

Barrie England (VARIATIONS ON AN INCIDENT IN PARIS) is a former British diplomat and an occasional teacher of English to foreign students. He recently became interested in the OULIPO and has produced a set of 66 variations on the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice modeled on Queneau’s Exercises in Style.

Paul Fournel (AROUND THE BUSH) is the president of OuLiPo. He has written extensively on potential literature and the French puppet theater. He is the inventor of Chicago and other Oulipian constraints. Among his books available in English is Need for the Bike.
personal site
Wikipedia entry

Molly Gaudry (THE AMERICAN) is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's MA fiction program, and her recent writing appears or is forthcoming in Serendipity, Titular, Lamination Colony, and Robot Melon. On downright up days, she blogs at Green City News.

Theo Hummer (RECULER) co-curates SOON, an experimental and small-press poetry reading series in Ithaca, NY. Her poems have appeared in Sentence, Vox, The Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2006, and Verse. Anchorite Press published her chapbook, The Parrot Bride, in 2006.

Brian Lemarié (TOURIST TRAP) is half English, half French. His early fiction appeared in The Rabelaisian and Sugar Afterglow; his recent fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review.

Samuel Frederick (BEATRICE BATTLES BACON) is Assistant Professor of German at Clemson University.

Iain Matheson (JACK) is an independent scholar menaced by the sick thrill of dependency. His work has appeared in The Scottish Review, A Pocketful of Poetry, Get Underground, and The Muse Apprentice Guild.

Harry Mathews (OBSERVATIONS OF A CRAB) is the author of over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including Cigarettes and My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973. He is a member of OuLiPo, and edited together with Alastair Brotchie the Oulipo Compendium.
Dalkey Archive
Wikipedia entry

Abel Miraríen (WAITING FOR THE PHONE TO RING; COVER) is a collage artist and clarinet player. Originally from Deming, New Mexico, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Andrew Mohel (WOMB BLOOM) is the author of three unpublished collections of poetry: Screaming While Sleeping, Gentle Anathemas, and Pollution. He is currently working on a fourth.
Adam Molho (FIGURES) was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. He lives in Paris, where he is writing a dissertation on Arthur Rimbaud under the direction of Pierre Brunel.

Nick Montfort (HE DID, EH?) is the author, with William Gillespie, of 2002: A Palindrome Story, the longest palindrome ever written (at least in English). Montfort is assistant professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
personal site

Maya Nestel (LEE BERMAN, AUTHOR OF "THE THREE BELLS") is the Paris correspondent for the Israeli financial newspaper Globes. She is a doctoral candidate in French literature at the Sorbonne.

Jim O'Grady (FIRST OF ALL, YOU'RE INCREDIBLY RUDE) was a longtime reporter for The City section of The New York Times and is now research director at the Center for an Urban Future, a think tank in Lower Manhattan. He tells stories at The Moth.

J.A. Pak (LE GASPILLAGE) is a writer based in Los Angeles, whose work has appeared in Quarterly West, Art/Life, Verbsap, and Taitlin's Tower. More can be seen at other fantasy outlets across America, including www.ja-pak.com and lanewbie.blogspot.com.

Nicolas Provost (DEEPLY REGRET TO INFORM) lives in Paris.

David Rando (THE DAY A SECRETLY PREGNANT FRENCH STRANGER SAVED MY HUSBAND FROM A THORNY SITUATION) is an assistant professor of English at Trinity University.
Brooks Reeves (THE AMERICAN MAN, THE TOURIST, AND CLAIRE) is a writer living in Wyoming. He's the author of The City That Cried Wolf among other works.

Samuel Ronda (PINE FOR ME, O) is assistant professor of English and German at Trinity College Dublin. He is working on a collection of snowballs entitled Ham's Man.

Matt Sachs (STORY: NOT A STORY) lives in New York, where he writes poems, essays, and plays.

Katherine Sharpe (OVER LUNCH) is a New York-based writer and editor. She publishes 400 Words, a journal of short-short nonfiction by ordinary people, which was recently added to the list McSweeneys Recommends. "Over Lunch" is exactly 400 words long.

Emily Short (FUGUE) is an author of interactive fiction, notably Galatea, and a collaborator on the IF design language Inform 7. She reviews games and interactive stories for Play This Thing! and JayIsGames.
personal site

Wikipedia entry

Laura Silver (REVOIR PARIS) spent a year in the 17ème arrondissement. Her work has appeared on NPR, WNYC and in The New York Times

Avery Smith (THE EAR) lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She
attends the School for Creative and Performing Arts and also writes
with the group Women Writing for (a) Change.

Katherine Wessling (I DID SAVE THE GUY'S LIFE) is a writer and actor who lives in New York City. Her essays have appeared in the anthology Have I Got a Guy for You, in Speak and Swing magazines, and on WNYC’s broadcast of NPR’s Morning Edition.

Zoe Wight (IN PARIS, TEXAS) was the editor of The Rabelaisian. Her fiction has appeared in Cryptic and Antithesis.

Amy Woolensack (HARMLESS) is a professional nanny and amateur Facebook stalker. She lives and stalks in New York City.


home
contributors
submit
blog
about
contact