What We Call A Masthead
Felicia C. Sullivan, Editor & Publisher
Felicia C. Sullivan is a New York based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other publications. Recently, an excerpt from her memoir was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 collection. Algonquin Books will publish her memoir, THE SKY ISN'T VISIBLE FROM HERE in February of 2008. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine & SLS Literary Seminars.
Wah-Ming Chang, Production Editor
Wah-Ming Chang is the co-director of the PAGE reading series at the National Arts Club, and has had fiction published in Mississippi Review, Tank, and Arts & Letters. She lives and works in New York City.
Lorissa Shepstone, Designer
A South African designer, photographer and the co-founder of Expressions (a popular photoblogging service), Lorissa currently lives in England with her husband and their feline-brat, Pelei. Her work has been featured in various publications, including PC Magazine, Digital Camera Shopper, 28mm, U&I Magazine and Create Your Own Photoblog. Lorissa also founded All Things Girl (an arts e-zine created for women, by women), and continues to add projects to her never-ending "to-do" list.
Jess deCourcy Hinds, Founding Editor, Literary Features & Contributing Writer
Jess deCourcy Hinds has written for Ms., Newsweek, New York Press, USA Weekend, Teachers & Writers, Snake River Review, Oatmeal & Poetry, The Artful Mind and Seventeen, which awarded her a fiction prize in 2001. She graduated from Smith College and received an M.F.A. from Michael Cunningham's fiction program at Brooklyn College. Contact: Jessdecourcy@gmail.com
Jaclyn Thomas, Fiction Reader
Jaclyn Thomas received a BA in English from Vassar College. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia University. She lives in New York.
Jennifer Uhlich, Fiction Reader
Jennifer Uhlich was born in New York City and currently lives in Alameda, CA. She has had work published in such places as Things Asian, Transfer, and Slurry, and is currently at work on a novella.
Julia Cohen, Fiction Reader
Julia is an editorial assistant at Palgrave Macmillan and the Managing
Editor for Nightboat Books (www.nightboat.org). Her first chapbook,
If Fire, Arrival released with Horse Less Press this summer. Her
poems and prose have recently been published or are forthcoming in
5_trope, Mississipi Review online, Hanging Loose, The Tiny, Word for/
Word, Pindeldyboz, and Typo. She lives in Brooklyn.
Paul A. Toth, Fiction Reader
Paul A. Toth lives in Michigan. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and Best American Mystery Stories. Credits include Exquisite Corpse, The Barcelona Review and Drunken Boat. His novel, Fizz was published in late 2003. A short film based on Fizz has been directed by special effects wiz John Tissavary (The Matrix) and will be released soon. For more information and complete credits, please see www.netpt.tv.
Cara Seitchek, Fiction Reader
Cara Seitchek is a freelance writer and editor, and an instructor for UCLA Extension and the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD. She is the newsletter editor for the National Postal Museum and the Assistant Fiction Editor for the Potomac Review. She received an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University.
Krista McGruder, Fiction Reader
Krista McGruder is the author of Beulah Land and the proud guardian of bulldogs Wilbur and Harriett. She lives in New York with her boyfriend, Tiger John Miller.
Lainie Goldwert, Fiction Reader
Lainie Goldwert received her MFA from the New School in 2005 and will begin a PhD in Psychological Anthropology at the University of Chicago this fall. She lives in Brooklyn and hopes to move the entire borough to Chicago. She believes this may be possible.
Tiff Holland, Fiction Reader
Tiff Holland teaches creative writing at Kent State University. Her poetry and fiction is widely published both in print and on the web.
Carlin M. Wragg, Contributing Writer & Fiction Reader
Carlin M. Wragg received her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004, where she concentrated in literature, creative writing and classical philosophy. She works for the literary organization Poets House and the Sarah Lawrence College Language Exchange. She lives in New York City.
Anastassiya Andrianova, Contributing Editor, Literary Features & Contributing Writer
Born in Ukraine, Anastassiya Andrianova holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from The City College, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, with a focus on late nineteenth century fiction and drama. She also teaches classics at Queens College.
Adam Goldwyn, Contributing Editor, Literary Features & Contributing Writer
Adam Goldwyn recieved a BA in History from Pomona College and an MA in Ancient History from University College London. He is currently working towards a PhD in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Adam also serves as an adjunct lecturer in English and Classics at Brooklyn College.
Abigail Holstein, Contributing Writer
Abigail Holstein is an assistant editor at Ecco and co-founder of SALTGRASS, a bi-annual literary journal in print and online.
Michael Signorelli, Contributing Writer
Michael Signorelli is an editorial assistant at Ecco Press and Harper Perennial. There he manages the Cruelest Month (www.cruelestmonth.com) and Olive Reader (www.olivereader.com). His work has recently appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Co-op Magazine, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood.
Summer Block, Contributing Writer
A proud Los Angeles native, Summer Block is a writer currently living in Shanghai, China. Her work has appeared in artnet, ALARM, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek (China edition), Identity Theory, Verse, Rain Taxi, and many other publications. She studied Medieval English Literature at the University of Chicago. Her work can be found at www.summerblock.com.
Horam Kim, Contributing Writer
Horam Kim is an editor at Timber Press. He received his MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Reese Kwon, Contributing Writer
Reese Kwon has written for Narrative Magazine, Commentary and The New York Sun, and has received a fiction award from The Atlantic Monthly. She currently is a candidate for an MFA in Michael Cunningham's program at Brooklyn College, where she won a Himan-Brown award for creative writing. She graduated with a BA from Yale University in 2005; at Yale, she was awarded the Wallace Prize in fiction.
Jessica Allen, Contributing Writer
Jessica Allen works as an editor in educational publishing. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Bitch, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and New York Press, She lives in New York City with her husband and their cat.
Maggie Hill, Contributing Writer
Maggie Hill is a writer and editor in NY. She is currently completing her first novel.
Scott Esposito, Contributing Writer
Scott Esposito's work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Rain Taxi Review of Books, Boldtype, and The Chattahoochee Review, among others. He hosts the literary blog Conversational Reading and edits The Quarterly Conversation.