Contributors

• Maya Aghasi is for the first time experimenting with writing that speaks the multilingual language of her thoughts. Growing up in countries ranging from Kuwait, Cyprus, Lebanon, and various parts of the United States, she is interested in the impossibility of identity and the necessity of difference and literature. In the hope of finding more questions than answers, she is currently pursuing her interest at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a doctoral student in the department of Comparative Literature.
• Kerstin Schaars founded HarrietandLeone.net in February 2005. She is working on a dissertation concerning how Literature challenges Ethics through the Department of Comparative Literature at UW-Madison. Kerstin teaches a course on movement and bodies in literature in the department. She lives in Wisconsin and Virginia.
• Aviva Englander Cristy is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her MFA from George Mason University.
• Marian Halls was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and has lived portions of her life in Brazil, Guatemala, California, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. She is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she currently divides her time between creative and academic work.
• Jenni Beetem is a sometimes-artist, but more frequent art historian. She will soon be returning from Japan where she has been living since March 2006, working and climbing in the mountains. She recieved her BS in Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has since lived and studied in New York, Virginia and California.