Contributors

Largely self-taught, he briey studied painting and etching at the Venetian Accademia di Belle Arti and attended an illustration course at Londons Chelsea School of Art. Since 1988 Marellas work has been widely published in both Italy and abroad. mark morton is the author of Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities (Insomniac Press, 2004) and The Lovers Tongue:A Merry Romp through the Language of Love and Sex (Insomniac Press, 2003). Contributors shin yu pai is the author of Adamantine (White Pine Press), Haiku Not Bombs (Booklyn Artists Alliance), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks), Sightings: Selected Works [20002005] (1913 Press), The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed)), Equivalence (La Alameda), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books). Since 2003 Schinto has been a reporter for Maine Antique Digest, covering auctions, antique shows, and trends in the trade. The following year she served as the McDermott Graduate Teaching Programs Intern at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she co-curated an exhibition entitled Life in Space: Staging Identity.