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Mental Contagion |
November 2006 • Issue #74
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Karen
Kopacz• kkopacz@mentalcontagion.com
Director | Designer | Featured Artist
Editor
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Karen is an art director
and designer living
in Saint Paul, MN. She was co-curator of Re:Connect (a
multi-media event featuring work by visual artists, filmmakers,
writers, and musicians) and a panel member for Fostering
New Culture on the Internet in SXSW's
2005 Interactive Festival. Her web design has been featured
in the design anthology "Portfolios Online". Karen
is a former columnist and photographer for Pitchfork and
a former art director and writer for First
Avenue In-House Magazine. Her writing and photography have
appeared in a variety of publications.
Karen is the featured artist editor for Exhibitionist. |
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Gene
Dillon • gdillon@mentalcontagion.com
Producer | Writer
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Gene Dillon lives in
Boulder, CO. with his wife and 2 children. A native of Chicago, Gene moved out West for a multitude of reasons he does not yet understand.
At the present time, Gene is working on the publication of a collection of his stories in print. The working title is "Opening the Can," and he has decided to document the entire process in his monthly column until the work is complete. Gene has been writing for Mental Contagion since November of 2002. In October of 2003, he assumed the duties of editor and co-producer, a level of involvement that continued until October of 2006. For most of 2006, Gene also conducted an interview/conversation feature known as The Shovel.
Gene is the producer of Mental Contagion and writes the column Tin
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Wendy
Lewis • wlewis@mentalcontagion.com
Writer | Featured Writer Editor
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Wendy Lewis relocated
her family in 1998 from the urban lively of Minneapolis to
the mysterious haven of Cannon Falls, a small farming community
on the Cannon River, 50 miles southeast of the twin cities.
She migrates regularly from small-town life to the cities to
commune with friends, perform with her band Redstart (Princess
Records) and work a day job regularly enough to pay the
bills. There is nothing she loves more than a ravaged table,
guests flush with food and wine and conversation late into
the night. The river runs. The door is open. The dogs are friendly.
Urban-girl-gone-country was the inspiration for Wendy's column Rūs.
Wendy is the featured writer editor for Pure
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Dean
Pajevic • dpajevic@mentalcontagion.com
Writer
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"Everybody tells you
kids are going to change your life. 'Yeah, sure. Whatever.'
you say. Then they come along. And your life changes."
"I look at her big, three-year-old eyes and I don't want to
sit the fence anymore. I want her to grow up in a world where
nature and people are not lashed to the mast of that sinking
ship called History. So I write. It's like jamming a crowbar
into my heart and soul, prying back those stinking rotten planks,
and feeling as much joy and life as I can stand. And sharing
it."
Dean is presently working on a book about love, death and redemption
(with car chases and sex). A creative library of his work is
available on his Web site deanpajevic.com.
Dean writes the column Mags . |
Kristine
Lambert • klambert@mentalcontagion.com
Managing Editor
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Kristine is a public
interest attorney working in the Twin Cities area. She
has a B.A. in Spanish and Humanities with an emphasis on
philosophy. She spent part of her undergraduate in
Madrid, Spain studying theater, literature and art history. During
law school, she completed law review and wrote academic papers,
one of which examined ways that education can break the cycle
of generational poverty. She spent time in Los Angeles
enjoying the arts and working in casting for the A&E
channel. Kristine is a music journalist for www.howwastheshow.com,
an Internet magazine that publishes reviews of live concerts.
Kristine
has an interest in arts genres of all kinds and is the managing
editor for Mental Contagion.
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Geoff
Herbach • gherbach@mentalcontagion.com
Podcast Host
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Geoff is a writer and
teacher living in Minneapolis, MN. He is co-founder of the Lit
6 Project, a group that writes and performs
the Electric Arc Radio show around the country and most notably
at the Ritz
Theater in Norheast Minneapolis. He is a regular guest
of the Talking
Image Connection reading
series. He has read stories on Minnesota Public Radio. His
short fiction has appeared in American Nerd, Bathtub
Gin and in other publications. Geoff is currently polishing
off a book of fictional suicide letters. At one time, Geoff
was a notable national expert on land use and urban gardening.
Geoff hosts the podcast inteview series Hearing
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Sam
Edsill • sedsill@mentalcontagion.com
Interviewer
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Sam Edsill is a recent
graduate of the University of Iowa, where he studied English
literature, creative writing and journalism. Sam was a
staff writer for The
Daily Iowan and spent a summer writing in Dublin; he
vows to return. Currently living in Iowa City, he spends
his free time traversint the Midwest and contemplating the
vast unknown of the future.
Sam discusses art and the environment
with artists in the interview column Cause & Effect. |
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