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CAROL NOVACK (1948 - 2011) founded Mad Hatters’ Review in 2005, was the former recipient of a writer’s award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, and an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in New York City. In 2010, she moved from a Greenwich Village co-op to a mountain residence (a future ＂retreat＂ for individuals and collaborators) in Western North Carolina, importing her KGB Bar reading series, ＂Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes＂ to The Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center, and founding the non-profit arts organization, MadHat, Inc.

Carol’s collection of fictions, fusions, monologues and poems, Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack, was published in 2010 by Spuyten Duyvil Press. The book is beautifully illustrated, mainly by artists who’ve graced the pages of Mad Hatters’ Review. The late poet Hugh Fox called the collection: ＂The most seductive, original, impacting work I have seen for years... Magnifique!＂

TOM BRADLEY’s latest books are Family Romance (Jaded Ibis Press, illustrated by Nick Patterson), A Pleasure Jaunt With One of the Sex Workers Who Don’t Exist in the People’s Republic of China (Neopoiesis Press), Even the Dog Won’t Touch Me (Ahadada Press), Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch (Dog Horn Publishing) and Put It Down in a Book (Drill Press, 3: AM Magazine’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2009). His next novel, with secret title and hidden nature, illustrated by the alchemical artist David Aronson, is coming next year from the occult publisher, Mandrake of Oxford. Further curiosity can be indulged at tombradley.org.

NICK PATTERSON is a visual artist whose love of twisting minds and turning heads has led him to explore all the darkness the human experience can muster, through high contrast ink drawings. With no official training in the visual medium, Patterson’s art is loosely tethered to reality, although it is very detailed. His inspiration is drawn from an amalgam of cartoons, comics, and movies. Carrying a sketchbook with him everywhere, he lets no flicker of imagination escape. Nick Patterson’s art has been published in several small magazines and novels. He currently lives in a city full of flowers on the western edge of Canada.