About the Editors

Jen Michalski (Editor in Chief) lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland (BA in English) and received her MS in Professional Writing from Towson University. Her first collection of short fiction, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, is available from So New (2007), her second, FROM HERE, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books (2014), and her collection of novellas is forthcoming from Dzanc (2013). Her novella MAY-SEPTEMBER (2010) was published by Press 53 as part of the Press 53 Open Awards. Her chapbook CROSS SECTIONS (2008) is available from Publishing Genius. She also is the editor of the anthology CITY SAGES: BALTIMORE (CityLit Press 2010), which won a 2010 "Best of Baltimore" award from Baltimore Magazine. She is cohost of the monthly reading series The 510 Readings in Baltimore. 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 College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and an MS in professional writing from Towson University and currently teaches at Coastal Carolina University. 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 first chapbook, Weed Over Flower, was chosen for publication by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: Wicked Alice, Lily,Verse Libre Quarterly, can we have our ball back?, FRiGG, Plainsongs, Literary Mama, Poetry Midwest, Dash, Boxcar Poetry Review, slant, Caesura, Gargoyle, ouroboros review, h_ngm_n, and other fine journals. Sadre-Orafai's prose has appeared in Rock Salt Plum, in the Seal Press anthology Waking Up American, and in the All Things That Matter Press anthology Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Adam Robinson (Book Review Editor) is a writer and publisher from Baltimore. He operates Publishing Genius, the chapbook press. He frequently publishes and performs his poetry, and his book ADAM ROBISON AND OTHER POEMS is from Narrow House Press (2010).

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.

Megan Calhoun (Associate Fiction 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. While she hopes to someday be a contributing member of society, she settles, in the meantime, for writing.

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.

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.

Nathan Pensky (Associate Flash and Fiction Editor) is a recent graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at Mills College and has been published, or has work forthcoming, in such periodicals as McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Defenestration, Yankee Pot Roast, MONKEYBICYCLE, The Foghorn, Journal of Truth and Consequence, Spilling Ink Review, and Johnny America. He is also a blogger and frequent contributor for the pop culture website PopMatters.

Linda Simoni-Wastila (Associate Flash and Fiction Editor) crunches numbers by day and churns words at night. You can find her poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction in Tattoo Highway, The Sun, The Shine Journal, Boston Literary Magazine, Every Day Poets, and Six Sentences, as well as in several anthologies. She muses on writing and the mind at Leftbrainwrite. She lives and loves in Baltimore, a town where her Northern birthright and Southern upbringing comfortably comingle.