NYC resident Erich Kuersten has worked in the art world, advertising, video editing, styrofoam, voiceovers, dog-walking, claymation and academia. He has written for Scarlet Street, Midnight Marquee, Modern Drunkard, Popmatters.com, and Muze. He also acts, directs, cries, and composes. His films include The Lacan Hour (2004), and Erich Kuersten: A Poet's Journey (an official rejection of the 2003 Palm Springs Film Festival).

Karina Longworth was born and raised in Hollywood, CA. She has lived in every major city in the United States and currently resides in New York, NY. She is going to have her Ph.D by the age of 27 if it kills her. She is currently an MA candidate in the Cinema Studies department at New York University, where she is writing a thesis on power and sluttishness in Hollywood film. Stalk Ms. Longworth at http://www.vidiocy.com

Rebecca Onion lives in Brooklyn and New Hampshire. She has written for Bitch, Maxim, Venus, The New Republic's website and PopMatters.com. She is also a contributing editor to ym, which may somewhat explain her obsession with girl culture.

Jonathan Doughty is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He can be contacted at jrdought@uncc.edu

Sasha, a cerebral gypsy and intermittent recluse, originally hails from San Francisco but currently resides in Brooklyn whilst finishing her BFA in Creative Writing.  Though nocturnal if left to her own devices, some of her work has seenthe light of day on Popmatters.com.

Jaime Mastromonica was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Theatre and English Literature at Catawba College, she moved to Seattle where she worked a number of corporate type jobs.  Finding 9 to 5 life not to her liking, she again crossed the continent to attend NYU, where she is currently pursing a MA in Cinema Studies. After graduation she hopes to be paid to talk about movies, or, failing that, to win the lottery.

Samantha is one of the many socialites of Pratt Institute, armed with intellect and furious with creativity.  Originally from the steamy swamplands of South Florida, she now resides among the brownstones and bodagas of Brooklyn, New York. She's a Jewish girl with "the affections and affinities of a five year old but the attitude of a sexy corporate lawyer who keeps a gun in her garter belt."

Catharine Erway is something in between a freelance writer and full-time publishing assistant, post-grad and pre-grad student (at some point maybe), New York and New Jersey native, American and Chinese, dog person and cat person, and doesn't categorize herself very easily. She thanks the editors of Acidemic.

Laruqi is a writer, performance artist, publisher,  actor and acupuncturist.  Her book Xero is available by contacting laruocco@cs.com

Severine Benzimra was born and raised in Montpellier, France,  the place where Truffaut directed The Man Who Loved Women. She was introduced to movies through Woody Allen, Hitchckock, Orson Welles and various westerns, because her father didn't like Disney and her mother didn't have time. She introduced herself to Ingmar Bergman, Luchino Visconti and Satyajit Ray as soon as possible. It never ended. Today she is an aspirant historian of the law as well as an aspirant historian of cinema.