Logan Ryan Smith is editor of small town, and the chapbook press, TRANSMISSION. His first book, The Singers, a serial poem, will be published by Dusie Press in the fall of ’06, and his chapbook, this is affront you pig, will be published by Catfish Press in the winter of ’07. His e-books, ghost spiders &dogs, and, amber faint, were both published by Detumescence Press (detumescence.com). A third e-book, 2 poems from the bottom of the barrel, can be found in Dusie’s 4th online issue (dusie.org). Other work has appeared in New American Writing, Drill, Spell, string of small machines, Bombay Gin, Mirage #4 / Period(ical), Hot Whiskey Magazine, commonweal, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, past simple, the tiny, The Boog City Reader, FRAME, and the anthology, Bay Poetics (Faux Press), among other places. He lives in San Francisco, but can always be found here: theredgummibear.blogspot.com.