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Mental Contagion |
February 2007 • Issue #77
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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, Minnesota. 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. She has been featured on KFAI's
radio program Art Matters, also heard as a podcast on
mnartists.org. A member of AIGA and MIMA,
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, Colorado with his wife and 2 children. A native of
Chicago, Gene moved out West for a multitude of reasons he
does not yet understand.
Gene has been writing for Mental Contagion since November of 2002. From 2003
to 2006 he was editor of Mental Congation and he conducted interviews in a conversation
feature called The Shovel in 2006. Gene is currently working on publishing
of a collection of his stories in print. Documenting the process from start to
finish, Opening the Can will replace his monthly column until the stories
are published. Gene loves baseball and has an unhealthy addiction to the Chicago
Cubs. He
is also learning about Tibetan Buddhism and practicing meditation.
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 Hash. |
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, Minnesota. He is co-founder
of the Lit
6 Project, a group that writes and performs the Electric
Arc Radio show around the country, most notably at the
Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. He is a regular guest
of the Talking
Image Connection reading series and has read stories on
Minnesota Public Radio. His
short fiction has appeared in American
Nerd, Bathtub Gin and in other publications.
At one time, Geoff was a notable national expert on
land use and urban gardening. Geoff's novel Saint Rimberg is
to be published by Crown/Three
Rivers Press in April of 08.
Geoff hosts the podcast interview 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. Currently
living in Iowa City, he spends his free time traversing the
Midwest and contemplating the vast unknown of the future.
Sam discusses art and the environment in the interview column Cause & Effect. |
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