About the Editors

Jen Michalski (Editor in Chief) lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a BA in English in 1994 and received her MS in Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. Her collection of short stories, Close Encounters, is available from So New Media (www.sonewpublishing.com/) and her chapbook Cross Sections: Selections From a Textbook of General Botany from Publishing Genius (www.publishinggenius.com). Jen's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, Failbetter, storySouth, The Summerset Review, The Avatar Review, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, The Pedestal, The Potomac, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Fringe, The Houston Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Split Shot, Swill Magazine, 10x10x10, Ink Pot, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Apt, 55 Stories, The Swamp, Fiction Warehouse, Lily, Gold Dust Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Litvision, SubtleTea, 13th Warrior Review, The Harrow, Conte Online, Rokovoko, Bending Spoons, and Scrivener's Pen. This is her first attempt at respectability. For more junk, visit jenmichalski.com

Catherine Harrison (Senior Fiction Editor) has a BA in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland, an MAT in Secondary English from CONDOM, and an MS in professional writing from Towson University and is currently working as a freelance writer and community college instructor. Being a student is her first love, but freelance writing and teaching aren't bad either.

Jenny Sadre-Orafai (Senior Poetry Editor) writes both poetry and prose. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the following publications: Wicked Alice, Poems Neiderngasse, SubtleTea, Lily, Verse Libre Quarterly, can we have our ball back?, Red River Review, FRiGG, Sein und Werden, and Plainsongs. Her prose has appeared in Rock Salt Plum and in the forthcoming Seal Press anthology, Waking Up American. Her first chapbook, Weed Over Flower, will appear soon. She has hosted numerous open mics, in addition to competing in slams. She has also recorded a spoken word album. Jenny currently lives in Atlanta, where she is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. Ms. Sadre-Orafai is also an Instructor of English at Kennesaw State University. More information about Sadre-Orafai can be found on her web site, my words are better.

Gary Lehmann (Biography Editor) teaches writing and poetry at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His essays, poetry, and short stories are widely published—about 60 pieces a year. He is the director of the Athenaeum Poetry group, which recently published its second chapbook, Poetic Visions. He also is author of a book of poetry entitled Public Lives and Private Secrets (Foothills Press, 2005) and co-author and editor of a book of poetry entitled The Span I Will Cross (Process Press, 2004). One of his poems has been nominated recently for the Pushcart Prize.

Adam Robinson is a writer and publisher from Baltimore. He operates Publishing Genius, the chapbook press. He frequently publishes and performs his poetry, and has a book forthcoming from Narrow House Press.

Alyce Lomax (Associate Fiction Editor) has been writing since she could scribble and has considered that her vocation ever since. Publication credits include short fiction in Scrivener's Pen, The Harrow, Pindeldyboz, Drunken Boat, Lily, and The Paumanok Review. A native of the Washington, DC, area, she attended St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Pam Pieroni (Associate Fiction Editor) has a husband, three children, and a house in Westchester County, New York. She earned her BS in Social Science from Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York (1992), and became a teacher for a few years. She went on to Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, to pursue a Masters in Elementary Reading and Writing. When her money and ambition began to run out, Pam knew what she was meant to do. Writing had always been her secret passion. She co-wrote and edited her father's WWII memoirs in Good Old Days Magazine, published an essay in The Journal News, and wrote an article for Child Care Magazine. She's now writing short fiction while she considers returning to graduate school.

Megan Calhoun (Associate Ficton Editor), née Palatas, was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She received her bachelor's in Art History from Ohio University and her master's in Professional Writing from Towson University. Currently, Megan works as an executive assistant for a publishing company and lives in Arnold, Maryland, with her two cats and an indulgent husband. While she hopes to someday be a contributing member of society, she settles, in the meantime, for writing.

Joshua Conklin (Associate Poetry Editor), a teacher by trade, is currently devoting a year to exclusively work on writing projects, including poetry, short fiction, and a family memoir. His poetry has been featured at Inkwell, SNR Review, JMWW, and Ocean.