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Liza
Dalby is an anthropologist and a novelist. She is the only westerner
to have become a geisha, which she did in the course of researching her
book, Geisha.
She has also written Kimono — Fashioning Culture, a view of
Japanese culture through dress. Her first novel, The
Tale of Murasaki, was published in Spring 2000.
Dame Darcy is a freelance illustrator and the creator of the comic book "Meat Cake." She has also appeared as an actress in independent films and her music has been released in the U.S. England, Japan, and elsewhere. Her website is www.damedarcy.com.
Trinie Dalton is a writer and visual artist in Los Angeles. She coedited Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is for McSweeney?, and her short story collection Wide Eyed was recently published by Akashic Books.
John Darnielle is lead singer of the Mountain Goats, who are currently on tour. He writes about music here and talks about marriage, pornography and bubble tea here. The New Yorker recently called him "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist." If you haven't bought his latest album yet, you really should.
Stacia
J. N. Decker grew up on a Kansas wheat farm, went to college in
Washington, DC, and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University,
where professors familiar with her autobiographical work have called her "arrogant," "whiny," "indoctrinated" and "repressed."
Nina de Gramont is the author of a collection
of short stories, Of Cats and Men. She has stories this autumn in
The Cream City Review and The Canary River Review. She lives
on Cape Cod with her husband, David Gessner.
Katrina
del Mar photographs people: tattooed women, rock stars, transgendered
punk rockers shaving in the bathtub and so forth. She publishes Plushtoy
Catalog.
Marisa
de los Santos holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a
Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston.
Her poems have been published in Antioch Review, Poetry, Southwest Review
and other magazines. Her book, From the Bones Out, was published
in the 1999 James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series from the University
of South Carolina Press. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jeniffer
DeMeritt is a comedian, pseudo-intellectual and reluctant smut-peddler.
She has performed at HERE, The Westbeth Theater Center, Gotham Comedy Club,
The Atlantic Theater and numerous dives and art-holes in New York City.
Her writing has been featured in Bust magazine.
Rachel
DeWoskin spent five years in Beijing as a consultant and television
producer. She now teaches poetry, analytical and business writing at Boston
University and the Harvard Extension School. She is working on her first
book, Blind China Diaries.
Julian
Dibbell writes a column on technological obsession for FEED.
He is also the author of My
Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World, a Village Voice "Writers on the Verge" selection for 1998. A former long-time resident of
New York City, he now lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and a
shockingly low monthly housing expense.
Betty
Dodson has taught thousands of women and men how to enhance their
sexual expression through her Bodysex Workshops, her current book, Sex
for One: The Joy of Selfloving, and her previous books, Liberating
Masturbation and Selflove & Orgasm. She distributes her own erotic sex-education videos, Selfloving
and Celebrating Orgasm, and manages her own web site, www.bettydodson.com.
She lives in New York City with her chosen family of sexual friends.
Mary
Donnelly was born and raised in San Pedro, California. Her poetry
has appeared in Open City and Bleach. She has also co-written
two feature-length screenplays and works as a writer/producer for Internet
television.
Lesley
Dormen is a writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in Mirabella,
Glamour and many other magazines.
Adam
Drucker is a comedian based in Los Angeles. His one-man show, Playland,
played off-Broadway in New York for one year. He has also appeared on television
and in commercials.
Amy
Dryansky's first collection of poems How I Got Lost So Close
to Home won the Alice James Books' New England/New York Competition.
Her poems appear in The New England Review, DoubleTake, Marlboro Review
and elsewhere. Currently, she's working on a collection of short-shorts
(fiction, not hot pants).
Andre
Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The
Cage Keeper and Other Stories, the novel Bluesman,
and House
of Sand and Fog, from which "A Caring Rescue" is taken. He has published
in a variety of magazines (and been reprinted in both the Best American
Short Stories and Best American Essays series) and has won a
Pushcart Prize and the National Magazine Award for Fiction among other prizes.
He is also an actor and a carpenter, and is married to dancer/choreographer
Fontaine Dollas. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.
Denise
Duhamel is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry. Her
most recent titles include The
Star-Spangled Banner (winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize, 1999),
Kinky
and Girl Soldier. She has been writing poems with Maureen Seaton
for about ten years. Their collaborations have appeared in such magazines
as Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review and American
Voice. Their first collaborative book, Exquisite Politics, was
published in 1997.
Katia
Dunn is an associate editor at the Portland
Mercury newspaper, an excellent rag specializing in smut and gossip.
She is also the owner of a dog named Billy, a black and tan coonhound who
bays very loudly.
Christopher
Durang is a playwright and sometimes actor. His plays include "A
History of the American Film" (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical), "Sister
Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You" (Obie Award), "Beyond
Therapy," "Baby
with the Bathwater" (Obie Award, Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), "The
Marriage of Bette and Boo," "Laughing
Wild," "Durang/Durang" and most recently, "Sex and Longing" at Lincoln
Center. As an actor, he's performed in his cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne,
the Sondheim musical Putting It Together with Julie Andrews, and
in various movies, including The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The
Butcher's Wife and Housesitter. Durang is the recipient of a
Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship and the Lila Wallace
Reader's Digest Writers Award.
Geoff
Dyer's books include But
Beautiful (winner of a 1992 Somerset Maugham Prize), Out
of Sheer Rage (finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award),
and, most recently, Paris
Trance. He looks forward to spending more of his life in (very expensive)
hotels.
