Michael Archer
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. His first novel, We Are Very Men, was recently completed.

Joel Whitney
Joel's writing and commentary have appeared 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. He's an "insider" on Tina Brown's Daily Beast where he comments on art and politics. Internationally his work has appeared in several languages, including in France's Courrier; his January interview with David Frum appeared in Esquire Russia. Joel has done more than 30 interview for the magazine, including Nobel Prize winners, members of Congress, heads of state, Oscar-nominated filmmakers, and Grammy-nominated singers, from a dozen countries. For his poetry, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.

Jennifer Nix
A former National Public Radio producer ("On the Media") and staff writer for Variety, Jen's also written for New York, The New York Observer, The Nation, Village Voice, National Law Journal, Salon, Huffington Post, AlterNet, OpenLeft, FireDogLake, and DailyKos. As editor-at-large for Chelsea Green Publishing, Jen acquired George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant and pioneered a web-based marketing model, which had Lakoff's work on the New York Times and other bestseller lists for months. In 2006, she acquired and published a second NYT bestseller, Glenn Greenwald's How Would a Patriot Act? with Working Assets Publishing. Jen is currently a fellow at the New Politics Institute, founder of the LiteraryOutpost and a co-founder of the Superdelegate Transparency Project. In between politics and media gigs, Jen's been a contributing editor at the literary journal, Other Voices, a consultant on various political and literary book projects, and she is a vocal advocate for independent media.

Meakin Armstrong
Fiction 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 occasionally blogs for The Atlantic and is a contributor to the nonfiction books, New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press) and Museyon Guides: Film and Travel (Museyon). His fiction is forthcoming in three anthologies: In Our Own Words, a Generation Speaks for Itself, Best of Our Stories Review, and a book of confessional fiction. Most recently, his work has appeared in NOÖ Journal, elimae, Our Stories Literary Journal, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker. You can follow him on Twitter.

David Doody
Blog 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.

Katherine Dykstra
Editor
Katherine Dykstra is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and the anthology 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers, among other places. She teaches at Gotham Writer’s Workshop and in the NYU Continuing Studies program.

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 The New York Times, PBS/FrontlineWorld, New York Magazine, Esquire, Spin and many others. He currently lives in New York City.

Adaeze Elechi
Editorial Assistant
Adaeze Elechi was born in Nigeria and grew up in Assen, Holland. She is a writer and studied journalism at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her stories have aired on Nashville Public Radio. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Wes Enzinna
Assistant Editor
After graduating from college in 2005, Wes Enzinna moved to Latin America, where he worked for two years as a reporter. He then went to New York to work for The Nation magazine, followed by a job as a research assistant to Naomi Klein for her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. His writing appears in The Nation, CBSNews.com, and many other publications, and he’s received numerous accolades—among them two 2009 Project Censored awards—for his foreign reporting. He currently lives in Oakland, California.

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

Kyle McAuley
Editorial Assistant
Kyle McAuley is an editor and writer living in New York. He enjoys wood-fired pizza, mountaineering, intelligent political discourse, and novels (but not all at once). His journalism and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Sun, BOMB, Guernica, and GoodEater.org.

Francis Reynolds
Editorial Assistant
Francis Reynolds is a web and audio journalist living in New York City. He is currently an intern at The Nation magazine.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Shankman
Contributing Art Editor
Mike Shankman is a painter who likes to bring artists together. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been published in Harper's Magazine, Southwest Art, and Canteen. In 2003, he co-founded of Million Fishes Art Collective, an arts organization in San Francisco's Mission District, where he lived and worked for three years. He now lives in Brooklyn.

Tara Jepson
Contributing Art Editor
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.

Michelle Mounts
Contributing Editor
Michelle Mounts is a freelance writer and editor. She is a former editor of Harper’s Magazine, Modern Painters, and Assouline, and her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Phoebe, Modern Painters, and ARTnews, among other publications. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow, and she has received the Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for her writing. After living in Prague and the foothills of the Appalachians in Ohio, she has happily settled into Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Nancy Rawlinson
Contributing 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 residencies and fellowships from the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She teaches fiction, nonfiction and MFA prep classes as part of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. You can check out her blog here.

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.

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.

Anna Ross
Contributing Poetry Editor
Anna Ross holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Southwest Review, AGNI, and Salamander, among other journals, and her translations have appeared in Poetry Wales and Rattapallax. She was the recipient of the 2005 Poetry Revision Fellowship from Grub Street, Inc. and the 2004 GSU Review poetry prize. She lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and teaches poetry and writing at Boston University and Grub Street, Inc.

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.

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.

(Founding) Contributing Editor
Joshua Jones

Interns
Austin Allen and Alex Smith