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Michael Archer (Co-Founder)
Michael’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Biography, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Woman’s Day, Men’s Edge, and The New Yorker, among many others. His fiction has appeared in various journals. He has taught in the Czech Republic (Charles University), Costa Rica, and China. He currently teaches English and speech at the City University of New York.

Lisa Lucas
Associate Publisher
Lisa is a freelance non-profit arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Before joining Guernica, Lucas served as the Director of Education at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) for six years and continues to work in media arts education in her spare time. Lisa is also a member of the non-fiction committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival. You can find her on Twitter.

Bridget Read
Publishing Assistant
Bridget Read is a nonfiction writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012 with a B.A. in English. She has previously worked as a Marketing Assistant for Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts, and as a Web / Editorial intern for PEN American Center.

Andrea Jones
Managing Editor
Andrea Jones is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared on TheNation.com, RollingStone.com, TheAmericanReader.com, and in Guernica. She has worked as a researcher at Rolling Stone, Harper’s, and The Nation, and was previously employed as legal assistant and Spanish translator at a workers’ civil rights law firm. She is on Twitter.

Joel Whitney (Co-Founder)
Editor-at-Large
Joel writes on art and politics. Recent work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Daily Beast, and World Policy Journal. His reporting on the U.S. role in Burma has appeared in The New Republic and The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. Other work appears in New York Magazine, Courrier International in France, The San Francisco Chronicle Books, NPR and The Village Voice. His poems appear in The Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni. For his poetry, he was awarded a “Discovery”/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn. He’s on Twitter.

Katherine Dykstra
Senior Editor
Katherine Dykstra is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Poets & Writers Magazine, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and the anthology 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers, among other places. She won first prize in the 2012 Waterman Fund Essay Contest. She teaches in theNYU Continuing Studies program.

Jina Moore
Senior Editor
Jina Moore is a writer, radio reporter and media critic focused on human rights and on Africa. Her work has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Review, The Walrus, and Best American Science Writing, among many others. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright fellowship and the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Gold Medal.

Tana Wojczuk
Nonfiction Editor
Tana is an essayist and culture critic whose work has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, Lapham’s Quarterly,The Huffington Post, Narrative, The Rumpus, Bomb Magazine, Treehugger and elsewhere. She has received a Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship and Academy of American Poets University Prize. She has taught writing at Columbia University and Yeshiva University in New York.

Katherine Rowland
Editor, Interviews
Katherine Rowland is journalist based in New York City. When she is not working with Guernica, she writes about public health and the environment and is the editor of a website devoted to women and science. Her stories have appeared in the Financial Times, Nature, the Independent, the Guardian, OnEarth, and other publications.

Jonathan Lee
Editor, Interviews
Jonathan Lee is a British writer. His novels Who Is Mr Satoshi? (2010) & Joy (2012) are published by Random House and have been translated into a dozen languages. He’s the recipient of a Society of Authors Award in the UK, has been nominated for various other prizes and awards & is a former Literature Adviser to the British Council in London. He now lives in Brooklyn.

Michelle Koufopoulos
Assistant Editor/Assistant Managing Editor
Michelle Koufopoulos is a writer and editor based in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. with Honors and studied writing at Oxford University. Michelle is also the Managing Editor/Director of Freerange Nonfiction, a monthly nonfiction reading series and online literary magazine, and her work has appeared in Guernica, Feministing, Freerange, The Faster Times, and The Isis, among other places. She works as an editor in the World History/Classics department of Oxford University Press. You can follow her on Twitter

Erika Anderson
Editorial Assistant
Erika Anderson is an online editor for Electric Literature and Hunger Mountain and teaches for the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. She cohosts the Renegade Reading Series and live tweets the Franklin Park Reading Series. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn.

Marisa Carroll
Editorial Assistant, Interviews
Marisa Carroll is a writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in publications including The Nation, The Rumpus, and Guernica. On a more serious note, she also writes jokes. Follow her on Twitter.

Rachel Riederer
Editor, Guernica Daily
Rachel Riederer is an essayist and journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation, Tin House, Mother Jones, The Rumpus, and Best American Essays, among others. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and teaches writing at Baruch College of the City University of New York. She lives in Brooklyn and tweets here.

Katie Ryder
Associate Editor, Guernica Daily
Katie Ryder is a freelance writer and a graduate student in NYU’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. Her work has appeared in Salon, Guernica, NewYorker.com, and others.

Ed Winstead
Assistant Editor, Guernica Daily
Ed Winstead is a writer and editor. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Miami Rail, The American Reader, and Guernica Daily. He’s currently finishing an MFA in fiction writing at NYU, where he is also fiction editor of the Washington Square Review.

Reed Cooley
Editorial Assistant, Guernica Daily
Reed Cooley studied English at George Washington University. He lives in Brooklyn and works in community health.

Meakin Armstrong
Senior Editor – Fiction Editor
Meakin Armstrong is a freelance writer, magazine editor, and screenwriter working on his first novel. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in The Atlantic and many other magazines. He has written two autobiographical pieces, one in Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and the other, 140Max. Among his awards, he received a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study “waitership” for fiction. Meakin is also contributor to four books, including New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press) and Museyon Guides: Film and Travel (Museyon). His fiction has appeared in two anthologies, along with Wigleaf, NOÕ Journal, Our Stories Literary Journal, and InDigest. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook

Catherine Chung
Fiction Editor
Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country, which was an Honorable Mention for the 2013 PEN/Hemingway award, and on the 2012 best books lists of Bookpage, Booklist, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a Granta New Voice, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, and Quarterly West, among others. She lives in New York City and teaches at Adelphi University.

Autumn Watts
Associate Fiction Editor
Autumn Watts has an MFA in fiction from Cornell, and lives in Ankara, Turkey. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Desert Voices, AGNI Online, and Indiana Review, among others, and she is the co-editor of Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of a Global System. Her screenplays include the short film “Rain,” directed by Rahab Elewaly, and she is currently working on a collection of oral Qatari folktales.

Alicia Wright
Editorial Assistant, Fiction
Alicia Wright lives in Brooklyn, New York and is originally from Georgia. She graduated from Middlebury College, and she also attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference on a student scholarship. She works as an assistant book scout.

Mikey Angelo Rumore
Editorial Assistant, Fiction
Mikey Angelo Rumore lives in New York City and comes from Florida, where he recently graduated from the University of Tampa. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Guernica Daily, Quilt, Glass Mountain, Portland Review Online, and Susquehanna Review.

Erica Wright
Senior Editor, Poetry
Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press) and the chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have appeared in many nice places such as Arion, Denver Quarterly, Pequod, and on From the Fishouse. For up-to-date information, check out her blog.

Noah Rabinowitz
Art Editor
Noah Rabinowitz is a photographer based in Brooklyn. He has previously worked as a photography editor with The Wall Street Journal and has also twice interned in The White House (under the Bush and Obama Administrations). His clients/publications have included Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, New York Magazine, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, ELLE, Harpers BAZAAR, The FADER, Interview, VICE, XXL, VOGUE Italy, The Art Newspaper, Teach for America and T Magazine.

Haniya Rae
Assistant Art Editor
Haniya Rae received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she studied Fine Art and Art History. Her work has been published in Art in America : Drawing and was awarded a France-Merrick Fellowship for her work in community arts. Follow her on Twitter @haniyarae

Aaron Leaf
Editorial Assistant, Art
Aaron Leaf is a freelance writer and editor who has reported on human rights issues from Zambia, Liberia, Canada and Peru. He is a graduate of Ryerson University and the former editor of Ricepaper, a journal of Asian Canadian arts and culture.

Kaye Cain-Nielsen
Special Issues Editor
Kaye Cain-Nielsen is a writer and editor living in Queens.

Kamila Shamsie
London Bureau Chief
Kamila Shamsie is the author of 5 novels, most recently ‘Burnt Shadows’ which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and has been translated into more than 20 languages. She writes for The Guardian and International Herald Tribune, and is Deputy President of EnglishPEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in the UK. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London. She is on Twitter

Alex Halperin
Contributing Editor
Alex Halperin has reported for BusinessWeek, GlobalPost, n+1, Slate, Earth Island Journal, Fortune, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Rebecca Bates
Contributing Editor, Guernica Daily
Rebecca Bates was born and raised in Houston, Texas and currently resides in Brooklyn. She received her MA from Fordham University where she studied creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Wag’s Revue. She tweets.

Mark Dowie
Editor-at-Large
Mark Dowie is an investigative historian and the author of seven books, including Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History, and, most recently, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. During his thirty-five years in journalism Dowie has won nineteen journalism awards, been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and contributed to the London Times, Harper’s, the New York Times, The World Policy Journal, the Wall Street Journal, The Utne Reader, The Nation, Worth, Resurgence, Ms, the Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, and the Washington Post, among many others. He is a contributing editor of Orion magazine and former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. He has taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence at The University of California Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Point Reyes Station, California.

Glenna Gordon
Contributing Art Editor
Glenna Gordon is a photographer and writer who splits her time between Brooklyn and West Africa. Her work has appeared in Time, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and elsewhere. She also blogs about photographic representations of Africa, her own work, and posts music videos from Africa and elsewhere.

J. Malcolm Garcia
Contributing Writer
J. Malcolm Garcia has written about the drug war in Mexico, race relations in Jena, Louisiana, and the poor of Buenos Aires, among other topics. His work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Emily Hunt
Contributing Artist
Emily was born in Amsterdam, Holland and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied Art, Art History, and Creative Writing at the University of Richmond and at Goldsmith’s College of Art. Upon receiving her B.A., she was awarded the Margaret Haley Carpenter Award for Poetry and the Bobby Chandler Award in Art. Emily currently lives in Brooklyn and works for the Academy of American Poets and Action Books’ online literary magazine, Action, Yes.

Amitava Kumar
Contributing Editor
Amitava Kumar was born in Ara, in Bihar, and grew up in Patna, famous for its poverty, corruption, and delicious mangoes. His latest nonfiction book, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, was described by the New York Times as a “perceptive and soulful … meditation on the global war on terror and its cultural and human repercussions.” Kumar’s earlier nonfiction titles include Husband of a Fanatic, an “Editors’ Choice” book at the New York Times; Bombay-London-New York, which was on the list of “Books of the Year” in The New Statesman; and Passport Photos, winner of an “Outstanding Book of the Year” award from the Myers Program. His novel Home Products was published in early 2007 by Picador-India, and was short-listed for India’s premier literary prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. It was published in 2010 in the U.S. under the title Nobody Does the Right Thing. Kumar is Professor of English at Vassar College.

Jamal Mahjoub
Contributing Editor
Jamal’s fiction has won awards in Britain, France and Spain, where he now lives. He has been involved with the Caine Prize for a number of years, shortlisted in 2005 and serving as chair of the judges in 2007. He is also involved in running their creative writing workshops in Africa. Currently he is working on a nonfiction book on the city of Khartoum where he grew up. Next year his crime writing alter ego, Parker Bilal, will debut in the first of a series of detective novels set in Cairo.

Melissa Seley
Contributing Editor
Melissa is a writer and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in BOMB online, Paper Magazine, Gastronomica, The Spectrum Anthology, H.O.W. Literary Journal and The Last Magazine. She was a 2010-2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer-in-Residence and co-curates Ess Ess, a reading series at Cleopatra’s in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Jake Whitney
Contributing Writer
Jake is a writer originally from the Bay Area who now lives in Westchester. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Editor & Publisher, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, and many others. Jake holds a master’s degree in journalism from Iona College. His most recent piece can be read here.

François R. Caron
Website Administrator/Developer
François is the founder and principal consultant of Virtua Design, a web design boutique based in Ottawa, Canada. He is graphic designer, web developer and teacher. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook.