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Lee Berman, editor	Yossi Goldlust	Matthew Saks
Fred Ciporen	Maria Layus	Laura Silver
Lindsay Edgecombe	Brian Lemarié	Katherine Wessling

Episode 12

Matthew Saks lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he writes poems, essays, and plays. He was educated at Vassar College and Princeton University.

Episode 11

A (Rubik's) Cubist, David Rando is also an assistant professor of English at Trinity University.

episode 10

Maëlle Lenoir works for a French NGO that helps outer-city children of promise gain access to higher education.

episode 9

Miriam Jacobson teaches English at Wake Forest University. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The University of Pennsylvania.

episode 8

Stephanie Schacht is a graduate student in Sociology at Princeton University.

episode 7

Cécile Saint-Paul works with Compagnie Les endimanchés as artistic producer, and actress. She has appeared in Woyzeck, Sunday Clothes, and many other plays. Her super-8 films have been screened at Centre Pompidou and Cinéma la clef.

episode 6

Adam Molho was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. He lives in Paris, and invites you to crash on his couch.

episode 5

Peter Aguero was born and raised in South Jersey. He is a Moth Grandslam Champion and instructor for The Moth's Outreach Program. Peter loves his mom.

episode 4

Yahav Michael is a storyteller and inventor. He is the author, with his wife Tal, of the forthcoming children's book The Laughing Man from Carmel Press.

episode 3

Ian Monk is a member of the OuLiPo. He is the author of Writings for the Oulipo, Plouk Town, et cetera. His translations of George Perec appeared in Three by Perec.

episode 2

Rania Salem is a graduate student in Sociology at Princeton University.

episode 1

Lee Berman is the editor of uprightdown. He has written three unpublishable novels, and is currently working on a fourth.

Didier Bedet is a photographer and actor. He has appeared, most recently, in La cantatrice Chauve, Du vent dans les branches de Sassafras, L'atelier, and Médée.

Samadar Ben-David studied at Nissan Nattiv Acting Studio, Jerusalem. She is a member of Yiddishpiel Theater and has recently appeared on The Lior Schlein Show.

Lee Berman is the editor of uprightdown. He has written three unpublishable novels, and is currently working on a fourth.

The BTK Band is New York's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band: Peter Aguero (Lead Vocals), Rory Scholl (Guitar), Ian Dunn (Guitar), Margot Bercy (Percussion), Jeff Scherer (Mandolin, Melodica), Eric March (Piano), Daniela Schiller (Drums), Elizabeth Blue (Flute, Mandolin). Watch some of their antics.

Ann Buechner 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 URD, Barrelhouse, Equilibrium, and The Madison Review. She lives in Busan, South Korea. Hair scares her.

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

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Carlos Diamond has abandoned fiction and animation in favor of comic stripping. His fiction has appeared in various small publications around the world, notably The Rabelaisian.

Sherri Eldin is an actress, model, and singer-songwriter. She has told stories at Moth storySLAMs and the Liar Show. See and hear more of her.

Octavian Esanu directed the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and has published and exhibited in several countries. He is temporarily based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mónica Espina is an Argentine-born theater director living in Paris. She is the founder and director of Quebracho Théâtre. Her work is centered around a multidisciplinary search for new theatrical forms.

Anne-Marie Jackson is a DPhil student in English at Oxford University.

Miriam Jacobson teaches English at Wake Forest University. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The University of Pennsylvania.

Brad Lawrence is a writer, storyteller, burlesque performer, and occasional superhero based in Brooklyn.

Maria Layus is an animator, graphic and web designer, and illustrator based in New York.

Brian Lemarié is half English, half French. His recent fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review.

Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo and an accomplished photographer of arguably interesting surfaces. He lives in San Francisco.

Maëlle Lenoir works for a French NGO that helps outer-city children of promise gain access to higher education.

Roni Levit is a graphic artist, a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She has a weekly column, Hamispar hanosaf, in Globes, and is the author of Atlas Israel.

Eitan Lieberman is a musican and music therapist. He teaches children with mental disabilities at Shaked Waldorf School in Tivon, Israel.

Caroline Mirkovic lives in Paris, and is the communication manager at Foires Salons et Congrès de France.

Maya Nestelbaum lives in Paris, where she writes for the Israeli fiancial newspaper Globes. She is a doctoral candidate in French literature at the Sorbonne.

Vanessa Quintanilla is a Mexican artist. Her work is currently on display at the Mexican Women's Museum. She participated in the Festival de miniMETRAJES.

François Raffinot is a choreographer currently working in Paris. He as served as director of various dance companies and centers, including Ris t Danceries and the Choreography Department at of Ircam-Centre Georges Pompidou.

A (Rubik's) Cubist, David Rando is also an assistant professor of English at Trinity University.

Brooks Reeves is a writer living in Wyoming. He is the author of The City That Cried Wolf, among other things.

Emmanuel Rodriguez doesn't like working in that little office at the Ministiry of _____, and he spends all his spare time making stupid videos.

Ravi Shankar is associate professor of English at CCSU and founding editor of Drunken Boat. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality, and co-edited Language for a New Century. Listen to some of his poems.

Cécile Saint-Paul works with Compagnie Les endimanchés as artistic producer and actress. She has appeared in Woyzeck, Sunday Clothes, and many other plays. Her super-8 films have been screened at Centre Pompidou and Cinéma la Clef.

Ari Stophanes is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature. His recent fiction has appeared in Hameorer.

Leib Teierman voint in New York, vu er lernt zikh yiddishe geshikhte un literatur. Er hot aroysgegeben tsvei bikher, Der Nisters Milkhome un Der Birgerkrig tvishn Pinkhus un Kahanovitch.

Katherine Wessling is a writer and actor. Her essays have appeared in the anthology Have I Got a Guy for You, in Speak and Swing magazines, and on Morning Edition.