amala somnographia

Marco Maisto is a text artist interested in comics, the poetics of future memory, minor literature and genres of collaboration.  He studied writing, poetics, and the anthropology of communication at the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writer's Workshop.  A recent essay of his appears in Bubbling Up at RedLemona.de, where he presently serves on the editorial staff of the COHORTS anthology project.  He heads up Threshold Text Ecology NYC, an organization in its infancy for the advancement of radical collective process across stylistic boundaries.  Fragments from his first novel in progress can be found at thedaywelostcontact.com and other information at marcomaisto.com.  He is the author of the chapbook arcades/ARCADES and The Great Lakes Hybrids, a novella.

Caroline DeVane is a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard Divinity School investigating how religious beliefs construct human  views of non-human animals. She has been invited to read her poetry at Columbia College Chicago, University of Chicago, and Threshold Text Ecology at Synchronicity Space in Greenwich Village, NYC. She and Marco Maisto have collaborated for some time; this is their first published piece.