BLEED: Education channel, featuring innovative writers, artists, and related experimental videos. Produced by Jaded Ibis Productions and Debra Di Blasi (www.debradiblasi.com)

Debra Di Blasi (www.debradiblasi.com) is the recipient of many awards, including a James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Thorpe Menn Book Award, and Diagram Innovative Fiction Award. Her books include The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions; Drought & Say What You Like; and Prayers of an Accidental Nature, praised by The New York Times Book Review for its "clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor." The short film based on her novella, Drought, won a host of national and international awards, and was one of only 6 US films invited to the Universe Elle section of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Her innovative fiction has been anthologized and adapted to film, radio, theatre, and audio CD in the U.S. and abroad, and her essays, art reviews and articles published in a variety of international, national and regional publications. Debra is president of Jaded Ibis Productions (http://jadedibisproductions.c om) producing fictive audio interviews and music, videos, print, web and visual art, and ironic consumer products, and the innovative literature and arts vodcast, BLEED. She frequently lectures on innovative literature.