Michael Archer
Michael is an adjunct professor of English and speech at City College (CUNY), New York, where he received his MA in creative writing. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Biography, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Woman’s Day, and Men’s Edge, among others. His fiction has appeared in Epiphany and Promethean. He recently completed his first novel, We Are Very Men.

Joel Whitney
Joel's writing and commentary have appeared recently in The New Republic, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Agni, New York magazine—and on NPR. In 2003, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry. He lives in Brooklyn.

Tara Jepson
Tara Jepson is a creative collaborator, marketing director, research junkie and branding strategist. With extensive experience in making things happen and getting the job done, her interests include clever and efficient design, books, board games, details, dinner parties and traveling. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Skidmore College. Although a proud Oregonian, she currently lives and works in New York City.

Meakin Armstrong
Editor
Meakin Armstrong is a screenwriter, magazine editor, and freelance writer working on his first novel. For 2007, he received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference work-study "waitership." Meakin is also contributor to the book, New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press, 2007). Most recently, his work appeared in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.

Katherine Dykstra
Editor
Katherine Dykstra is a contributor to the New York Post Home section, a teacher at Gotham Writers' Workshop, a freelance writer, and a personal essayist. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Allure, The Independent: Film and Video Monthly, Fodor's Guidebooks and Ironminds.com, among other publications and she holds an MFA in nonfiction from The New School University. She has an essay in the recently published anthology 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers.

Dan Eckstein
Art & Photography Editor
Dan Eckstein was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. After graduating from Skidmore College, he moved to New York and spent an inspiring year assisting Magnum photographers Steve McCurry and Bruno Barbey. His images have appeared in publications such as Time Out, New York Magazine, Esquire, Spin and many others. He also teaches photography for the non-profit organization, Common Ground. His most recent project took him to North Asia where he documented the phenomenal changes taking place in China. He currently lives in New York City.

Nancy Rawlinson
Editor
Nancy Rawlinson has worked as a journalist and freelance editor in both the U.S. and England. She received her MFA from Columbia in 2003. Her work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including The Guardian, Time Out, and Madison magazine. Nancy has been awarded a residency at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and a fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation. She teaches fiction, nonfiction and MFA prep classes as part of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop.

Erica Wright
Poetry Editor
Erica Wright received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in various places such as DMQ Review, ForeWord Magazine, Harpur Palate, Memorious, Paste, Pequod, and Small Spiral Notebook (online). She is currently working on her first collection and teaching at the City University of New York. For up-to-date information, check out her blog, http://ericawright.typepad.com.

Thom Blaylock
Contributing Editor
Thom Blaylock received his M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2007. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Believer, The Irish Times, Libertas, U-Blue and Project Flamingo. A former editor of Columbia: a Journal of Literature and Art, Thom currently teaches writing to graduate students in Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health where he also edits for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He lives in New York.

Joseph Dipalo
Contributing Editor
Joseph studied creative writing at New School University, where he focused on both fiction and poetry. Some of his work has appeared in DIAL Magazine. Joseph is a fan of Pearl Jam, plantains, Chuck Taylors, and the color brown.

David Doody
Contributing Editor
David Doody is a freelance writer and editor, and co-founder and co-editor of InDigest Magazine, a literary and arts online magazine that looks to promote a discussion about and between the arts. He currently lives in Minnesota and spends his time working on anywhere from one to six blogs on any given day.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Contributing Editor
Gibson's articles, poems and reviews have appeared in Backwards City Review, The New Republic, Portland Phoenix, Publishers Weekly, Prairie Schooner, and Time Out: New York, and are forthcoming in Boston Review, Pleiades and Western Humanities Review. His work is featured at fishousepoems.org, an audio archive of emerging poets, and he was awarded the Bellevue Literary Review's Magliocco Prize for Poetry.

Ann Tornkvist
Contributing Art Editor
Ann Tornkvist, born in Bahrain, studied print journalism and photojournalism at Columbia University. Her master's thesis on war photography in the fine art market was published in Guernica and SFoto, the journal of professional photographers in Sweden. Other writing has been published in Gringo, KoreAm, Soma and Swea magazines and in Le Griot, a Harlem-based West African community newspaper. She edited the Magnum Blog before relocating to London where she works as a photo editor.

(Founding) Contributing Editors
Joshua Jones, Elizabeth Onusko

Interns
Maria Atubiga, Swetha Regunathan, Lucy Tang