Contributors

Tiffany Lee Brown (Editor) is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her opinionated blithering has been published in Bookforum, Wired, Mondo 2000, 21.C, Bust, and the Fringe Ware Review, etc. Her fiction and non- appear in several books, including BUST's Guide to the New Girl Order which you must, you must, you must run out & buy someone for Xmas. She no longer looks like this, but digs this pic, adapted from a photo by Bart Nagel.

Mandy Catalano (illustrator) is a long-standing member of the dUdü art collective.

gregoryp™ ("Welcome to the ICE District," "Waking Tech Divine") is still being mysterious. Apparently he's migrated to the East Coast, and his Real Name® is Gregory Pleshaw. We think that www.gregoryp.com just might have something to do with him.–TLB

Ian Grey, an American national, writes about culture, film and music. Author of Sex, Stupidity, & Greed: Inside the American Movie Industry, he wrote "Box of Nothing" for the Fabulous Film Theme Issue of SIGNUM. He is currently at work on a very long novel based upon two lines from an old, rather generic Depeche Mode song. He likes to think he is among the first the first to do this.

Andrew Hultkrans ("The Illusion of a Future: Retrofuturist Artifacts of the Silver Screen") is editor of Bookforum. Previously, he toiled thanklessly as a freelance writer for six ass-reddening years. Back in the paleolithic age (before Mozilla walked the earth), he was managing editor and columnist for Mondo 2000. Over the years, his hemming and hawing about the media, film, music, literature, art and the occasional lunatic has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Wired, Salon, 21C, Filmmaker, Stim, and several books. He lives in New York. Photo by the unscrupuless Bart Nagel.

Tom Igoe (initial site layout, architecture, general goodness and light) worked as a theatre electrician and occasional lighting designer, but left it all behind and moved to New York for a more glamorous career in new media. He now teaches courses in computational media and physical computing at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and spends the rest of his time making talking fountains, .38 caliber Smith & Wesson computer mice, and VR headgear out of gas masks. Details are at itp.nyu.edu/tigoe.

Richard Kadrey (Covert Culture column) never reads his this part of SIGNUM, or he'd be appalled at the stuff I write about him. This month I'd like to reveal the little-known fact that Mr.Kadrey actually lives in Los Angeles, where he rooms with Richard Simmons, writes episodes of the Smurfs, and hangs out in twee little cafes in Los Feliz. One ought also to mention that he authored the novels Metrophage and Kamikaze l'Amour, and the Covert Culture Sourcebook series. Photo by Lyn Gaza, modified by Gomi Boy. —TLB

Barry Kavanagh ("The Fine Line…") is the author of the "surreal... melancholic" unpublished novel What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand and is a conspicuous member of the musical group Dacianos ("a source of joy, bemusement and inspiration"), who actually play live, record and release stuff. He is currently trying to write a "Taoist novel". May he grow wings and fly away!

Peter Landau ("While Cuba Waits") is new to SIGNUM and relatively new to me. For this reason, it really does not behoove me to fake a bio on his behalf. However, I happen to know that he wears truly fabulous ties (and glasses, too). He's the weekly columnist responsible for "Show Business Insider" and will undoubtedly send me some more info real quicklike once he reads this. –TLB

magdalen (Fiction contributor) is one of many transparent pseudonyms used for vague and psychologically unsound reasons by some girl who writes.

Mark Meadows created the initial design for this site, whose logo and illustrative elements have been mutated into its current form. Also known as Pighed, he is a truly wonderful artist whose work sweeps a frightening swath through various genres. Plus he rides motorcycles, surfs, paints, and besides which, the sea creatures speak to him. Can you tell no one sent me their bios yet? —TLB

Andi Olsen (Freezone contributor) is an artist whose assemblages and collages have appeared in galleries and journals across the country and abroad, most recently Berlin, San Diego, and London. Samples of her cyberart reside at http://www.uidaho.edu/~lolsen.

Lance Olsen (Freezone contributor) is author of more than a dozen books of and about Avant-Pop fiction, including the novels Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Time Famine, and Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Writing Fiction. His digital avatar resides at Cafe Zeitgeist: http://www.uidaho.edu/~lolsen.

VX Potenza (WORD columnist) is the founder and publisher of SIGNUM. How much does that rock? It rocks!

Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) is the webmaster on five sites. Then he works for a leftist foundation during the day, like, influencing public policy and stuff. He grew up in Bangkok, which is just terrifyingly cool & interesting of him, don't you think? In his spare time, Oates plays the clarinet in subway stations on the "G" line. –me again

MJ Rose (alt.books column) is the author of Lip Service, the first self-published and Internet-marketed novel chosen by the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs to be a featured alternate selection.

Don Webb (Fiction contributor) is a native born Texan. He's known for Texas based mysteries The Double and Essential Saltes, his 200 or so published SF short stories, having a sex manual dedicated to him, his occult books The Seven Faces of Darkness and Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path, his appearance in the movie Plutonium Circus, his long boring story about being attacked by a razorblade-wielding psycho, his chili, his beautiful wives, his fear of heights, his interest in the Toho Godzilla film series, his shyness in crowds, his habit of bathing in Pine Sol, his hatred of avocados, his list-making, and his fondness for chicken and dumplings. See http://www.fringeware.com/dwebb/ for more.

Scott Westerfeld (WORD columnist) is a novelist and composer. He is the author of Polymorph and Fine Prey, both published by Penguin/Roc. His electronic compositions for dance have been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, P.S. 122, and Jacob's Pillow. He was born in Texas and lives on New York's Lower East Side. Visit http://members.aol.com/fineprey or email sdwestnyc@aol.com.

Miriam Zellnik ("The Golden Age of Not-Hollywood") was born in a New York City taxicab. The driver was so touched by her birth that he knocked 5 bucks off the fare, much to her mother's delight. She spent her earliest years travelling the globe with her parents, part of a troupe of fire-eaters who played before royalty on several occasions, but when Miriam reached the age of 6, her parents decided to retire from the circus life and settle down for good. Clever Mim ran away to the aisle of Portlandia, where she currently writes and lives.