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.
• 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.
• Emily Brown got her Master's degree in Comparative Literature from UW-Madison in 2007. She is currently trying to come up with one sentence that sums up her experiences, ambitions, and idiosyncrasies.
• Valerie Reed is a dissertator in the Department of Comparative Literature at UW-Madison. She lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin.