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James Meetze, Christine Shan Shan Hou and Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Publications include C O N C R E T E S O U N D (2011) a collaborative artists’ book with artist Audra Wolowiec, and Accumulations (Publication Studio 2010). Additional poems and/or artwork appear in Poor Claudia, Fanzine, Elderly, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Weekday, Bone Bouquet, Belladonna, Gwarlingo, ILK, LIT, The Atlas Review, tender, Lemon Hound, and Two Serious Ladies amongst others. She has received awards from Key West Literary Seminar, The Flow Chart Foundation/The Academy for American Poets, and Naropa University. Christine is the studio manager at the Brooklyn Yoga Collective, where she also teaches, Vinyasa, Hatha, and Yin Yoga. She received her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Joschi Yoga Institute and 20-hour Yin Yoga Training at Pure East.

James Meetze [pronounced Metz] is the author of I Have Designed This for You and Dayglo, which was selected by Terrance Hayes as winner of the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize and published by Ahsahta Press. He is editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (FSG, 2010). His work has also appeared in five chapbooks and numerous publications, including AGNI, A Public Space, American Letters & Commentary, The Rattling Wall, and New American Writing, among others. His third book, Phantom Hour, will be published by Ahsahta Press in March, 2016. He spends his time between Los Angeles and San Diego, where he teaches creative writing and film studies at Ashford University.

Jasmine Dreame Wagner is an American poet, artist, and musician. She is the author of Rings (Kelsey St. Press), Listening for Earthquakes (Caketrain), Rewilding (Ahsahta Press), and True Crime (NAP).