Alan Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), and.echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous other chapbooks, books and articles. His videos and films have been shown internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past several years, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, sexuality, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn; he lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online writing community, originating in Nottingham, England. He is currently Associate Editor of the online magazine Beehive, and assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has been recently screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as a number of universities and other venues. Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program, and last year was at Florida International University in Miami. He currently in video, cdrom, performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration.

PETER FINCH

Peter Finch is a poet and short story writer living in Cardiff, Wales. He works in both traditional and experimental forms and is a performer on the reading circuit. In the sixties and seventies he edited the ground-breaking literary magazine, second aeon, exhibited visual poetry internationally and toured with sound poet Bob Cobbing. In the eighties he embraced performance poetry, was a founder member of Cardiff's Cabaret 246 and of the trio Horse's Mouth. This was work with props owing as much to theatre as to literature. But Peter Finch could never actually leave the book. While others recited their work by rotes he chose (and still chooses) to work from the written text. Today he is much in demand as a reader as well as a lecturer at festivals and venues up and down the country.

Finch is author of a number of works on poetry and book publishing, compiles the poetry section of Macmillan's annual Writer's Handbook and the self-publishing section for A&C Black's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. He is a regular book reviewer and writes on the business of poetry. His poetry is widely published in magazines and anthologies. His most recent books are the very well received Food (Seren) and the innovative post-modern Antibodies (Stride).

In addition to the readings Finch also delivers a number of entertaining presentations on the poetry publishing scene, on the history of sound poetry, on the writing of short fiction and on the history of the small press. He works with schools and has led young people's writing squads in co-operation with local authorities.

Finch is currently working on historical, topographical and fictional material concerned with Cardiff. His Real Cardiff will appear next year from Sere Books. His Great Cardiff Poem project involving hundreds of writers across the city is currently being developed by Cardiff 2008, the City's bid to become European Capital of Culture.

For thirty years Peter Finch ran Oriel, Wales' specialist bookshop and gallery in Cardiff. Since 1998 he has headed Academi, the Welsh national Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers.