Rachel Aviv (2) is a Triple Canopy editor at large. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, and Bookforum.

Taylor Baldwin is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia, and a Triple Canopy editor at large. He has received degrees in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work deals with life in the desert, the specter of imminent catastrophe, and the subtle touches of geology, primarily through sculptural installation, drawing, and video.

Colby Chamberlain (2) is a Triple Canopy editor at large and the managing editor of Cabinet magazine.

Adam Florin is a Triple Canopy Web developer but not a technocrat.

Sam Frank (2) is an editor of Triple Canopy. Smoke, rain, abulia; hairy, surgical, and yet invisible.

Adam Helms is a New York–based artist and a Triple Canopy editor at large. His work has been exhibited widely both in the US and Europe, including a solo show this past fall at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. He was an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas, in 2007. He is also obsessive, a collector of ephemera, and a friend to all animals.

Sarah Kessler (1) is a writer and a Triple Canopy editor at large. She recently received her MA in modern studies from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Molly Kleiman (2) is a writer working in Sarajevo and New York and a Triple Canopy editor at large.

Laurence Lowe is a Triple Canopy editor at large. His writing has appeared in GQ, the New Republic, and n+1.

Alexander Provan is a writer living in Brooklyn and an editor of Triple Canopy. He is also an editor at Stop Smiling and Bidoun.

Tom Roberge is a book editor, freelance writer, and Triple Canopy editor at large.

Peter J. Russo is program manager at Dieu Donné in New York and a Triple Canopy editor at large.

Genevieve Smith (2) is a writer living in Brooklyn and a Triple Canopy editor at large.

William Smith (1) is a Triple Canopy editor at large and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York.

Caleb Waldorf is an artist making a very sincere effort to live in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego, in 2007. He is Triple Canopy’s creative director.

Hannah Whitaker (2) is a photographer, photo editor, and Triple Canopy editor at large, based in New York City.

Jane Yakowitz is a Triple Canopy editor at large. She is a former class-action attorney and currently the director of Project SEAPHE at UCLA School of Law. She conducts empirical research about gender equity and the long-term effects of affirmative action. Her spare time is spent rocking out, making art, and cooing at her dog.

Jesse Ball (2) is the author of Samedi the Deafness (Vintage, 2007), The Way Through Doors (Vintage, 2009), and March Book (Grove, 2004). In 2008, he won the Plimpton Prize for a novella, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr.

Thomas Beard (2) is a founder and director of Light Industry.

Rebecca Bird (2) is a painter living in Brooklyn. She studied at the Cooper Union and Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan and sometimes works as an archaeological illustrator in Egypt. She is interested in stage tricks and nonbiological life, especially the kind that happens on paper.

Thordis Björnsdottir (2), an Icelandic poet and novelist, is the author of Saga blau sumri (2007), I Felum Bakvid Gluggatjoldin (2007), and Ast og Appelsinur (2004).

Roberto Bolaño (2) was a Chilean novelist and poet. He died in 2003 at the age of fifty.

Beth Brandon (2) is an artist living in Philadelphia, where she is a member of Space 1026. She creates installations involving wallpaper, books, apparel, temporary enclosures, and other printed and textile-based matter.

Sumi Ink Club (2) is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group meets regularly to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.

Keren Cytter (2) spent her childhood in Israel and lives in Berlin. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at museums and galleries throughout Europe.

Rivka Galchen (2) is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, has just been published by FSG.

Elizabeth Gumport (2) will begin work on her MFA in fiction at Johns Hopkins this fall. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her gerbil, Henry.

Sheila Heti (1) is the author of Ticknor, The Middle Stories, and the upcoming How Should a Person Be? She runs the websites I Dream of Hillary and I Dream of Barack and is the creator of the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series. She lives in Toronto.

Dan Hoy (1) lives in Brooklyn and is an editor for Soft Targets. His poetry chapbook, Outtakes, was released by Lame House Press in 2007.

Howie Kahn (1) has written for GQ and the New York Times, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Craig Kalpakjian (1) is an artist living in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. His most recent solo show took place at the Baukunst Galerie in Cologne, Germany, in the summer of 2007.

Jon Kessler (2) is an artist living in New York. He teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and plays guitar in the X-Patsys, the band he formed with Barbara Sukowa and Robert Longo.

Jenni Knight (1, 2) likes to make messes with tactile ease in a gritty corner of the world. Don’t deny them their beauty! They try hard like arabesques. She is also an artist immersed in low-fidelity media, including lots of crap with peering eyes like hers that calls out from the street.

Wayne Koestenbaum (1) has published five books of poetry, five books of nonfiction, and a novel. His newest book, Hotel Theory, a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2007. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and a visiting professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

Caolan Madden (2) just received an MFA in poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She reads a lot of bridal magazines, but she has never Jazzercized.

Russell Martin (1) is an artist and writer in London. Working with group dialogue as a medium, he creates one-off events that are not recorded or exhibited.

Rachel Mason (1) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Two CDs of The Ambassadors, songs inspired by various world leaders and written in collaboration with Tim Davis, Jennifer Herrema, Amy Gerstler, and Manuel Noriega, among others, are available at Printed Matter. She lives and works in New York.

Andrew Maxwell (2) is a linguist and taxonomist working on machine learning and classification problems at Google. A self-described "friend of the poets," he's edited several little magazines, including The Germ and Double Change, and programs various reading and lecture series in the Los Angeles area, most recently as codirector of the Poetic Research Bureau.

Joseph Mosconi (2) is a linguist based in Los Angeles. He is an editor of Area Sneaks, a journal of poetry and visual arts, and codirects the Poetic Research Bureau. His criticism can be found in the Fillip Review, The /n/oulipian Analects, and the liner notes to Golden Digest, a DVD release by video techno-scavengers Animal Charm.

Joanna Neborsky (2) is an illustrator.

David Noriega (2) is a writer and translator who spent his childhood in Bogotá, his adolescence in Binghamton, New York, and his young adulthood in Providence. He is currently an itinerant.

Ed Park (2) is a founding editor of The Believer. He publishes the New-York Ghost, writes a monthly science-fiction column for the Los Angeles Times called Astral Weeks, and blogs at The Dizzies. His first novel, Personal Days, was published in May by Random House. He lives in New York City.

The Poetic Research Bureau (2) is a nonprofit bookstore, reading space, and publishing collective located in Los Angeles.

Emily Richardson (1) lives and works in London. Her films are distributed by LUX and have been shown in galleries and at festivals internationally, including Tate Britain; Cafe Gallery Projects, London; Artists Space, New York; and the Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and New York film festivals. She is currently working on a film, Cobra Mist, due to be completed later this year.

Michael Robinson (2) is a film and video artist based in Chicago. His work has been shown in festivals, cinematheques, and galleries internationally, including the New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and London film festivals.

Peter Schwenger (1) lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and doesn’t get out much.

James Sham (1) is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia. He is pursuing an MFA in sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Ara Shirinyan (2) is the author of four books, most recently Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan–Guyana), from Futurepoem Books, and editor of Make Now Press. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and lives in Los Angeles.

Iain Sinclair (1) has lived in Hackney since 1968. He is presently working on a book, That Red Rose Empire, woven from interviews with Hackney artists, writers, and local characters, due to be published by Hamish Hamilton later this year.

Andrew Ti (2) is a photographer living in Brooklyn.

Dan Torop (2) showed the photographs “Snowbound” at the Derek Eller Gallery back in 2007. He is currently a resident at Eyebeam but lives in Brooklyn.

Julia Weist (2) is an artist and author living in Brooklyn. She was educated at the Cooper Union School of Art and is completing a master’s of library science at Pratt Institute. Sexy Librarian is her first novel.

Brook Wilensky-Lanford (1) is an MFA candidate in nonfiction writing at Columbia University. She is working on a book about the search for the “real” Garden of Eden.

Diane Williams’s (1) most recent book is It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, out from FC2. She is the editor of the literary annual Noon.