Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia

Stacey Levine is a Seattle-based author whose books include My Horse and Other Stories and Dra--, a novel. Her second novel, Frances Johnson, was published in 2005 by Clear Cut Press of Portland. With Seattle musicians Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson she co-wrote an opera based on the NW Quilyeute tribes vs. Russian fur traders in the 1800s. The Girl with Brown Fur, her second collection of stories, will be released in 2009.

Interview with/excerpt from Frances Johnson:
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw060907stacey_levine

Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and the forthcoming Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse), in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, and a forthcoming nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality (Other Press). Her collaboration with artist/performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is collaborating with conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film “Murderous Square Dance at the Spiral Jetty.” Place is a co-founder of Les Figures Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”

www.lesfigues.com/lfp/28/dies-a-sentence
fc2.org/place/medusa/reviews.htm