ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Katie Chao and Ben Muessig are Brooklyn-based photographers who document overlooked parts of the built environment. Their award-winning photographs of bleak manmade landscapes have appeared in New York galleries and publications, including The New York Post and Ninja Magazine.

JANUARY 2010

• Editor's Note

FICTION

• Back River Neck by Jennifer Lee

POETRY

• Pipers by Connie Conway
• I do not like New York in June by John Bennett
• Limoncello by Dan Leamen
• Grasshopper Aria by Hemant Mohapatra
• Husking by Olga Rukovets

MEMOIR

• She Was a Beautiful Person by Daniel Parks

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shooting Brooklyn by Katie Chao and Ben Muessig