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Maria Stratienko Maria Stratienko has a perceived audience, as well as terrible cockroach perception. She carries grapes in her purse and rapes countless pages with sweet and swirly nothings. Her gay brother lover came from England, and she came from Pennsylvania. She's emo and writes a lot. She reads Urban Outfitter's blog and wears tall socks. Pretty much, she's a poet.

Claire Samuels You inquired as to which person your biography should be written in. You were told that it should be written in second person. This is what you came up with. Why the hell do you call yourself a writer?

Sarah Thomas Sarah's ideal novel would have to be a cross between Great Expectations and the Catcher in the Rye. She would commend any attempt to create such a novel because, frankly, she doesn't think it can be done. Always composed after midnight, her poetry incorporates a distinct level of verbosity with ambiguity that, some way or another, manages to revolve around one central point. Maybe she just chucks nice-sounding words on the page instead - your guess is as good as anybody. If you hear her listening to Opera in her car while the windows are rolled down, try not to point or make a face, because you're probably just too obtuse to appreciate the complexity and radiance of real, ambitious music.