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, Agni, New York magazine—and on NPR. Internationally his work has appeared in several languages, including in France's Courrier International; his January interview with David Frum appeared in Esquire Russia. For his poetry, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He was a 2010 judge for the Overseas Press Club’s Ed Cunningham Award for magazine writing, and is a board member of OPC America. He lives in Brooklyn. He’s on Twitter.

Elizabeth Onusko
Co-Founder/Assistant Publisher
Elizabeth Onusko received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Fordham University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, featured on Verse Daily, and published in 42opus, Poetry East, The Briar Cliff Review, Poet Lore, and Coal Hill Review. She is working on her first collection.

Francis Reynolds
Assistant Managing Editor
Francis Reynolds is the editorial producer at The Nation magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Meakin Armstrong
Senior Editor, Fiction
Meakin Armstrong is a freelance writer, magazine editor, and screenwriter on his first novel. For 2007, he received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference work-study "waitership." Meakin is also contributor to five books, including New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press) and Museyon Guides: Film and Travel (Museyon). Most recently, his work appeared in NOÕ Journal, Our Stories Literary Journal, InDigest, Sweeeeet, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. His work is forthcoming in Wigleaf. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker.
You can follow him on Twitter.

Rebecca Bates
Editorial Assistant
Rebecca Bates was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She is in her second year of graduate school at Fordham University where she studies creative writing.

Katherine Dykstra
Senior 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
Senior Editor, Art & Photography
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.

Rachel Louise Ensign
Editorial Assistant
Rachel Louise Ensign is a native New Yorker who recently graduated from Cornell University. She is an intern at Slate magazine.

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

Alex Smith
Editorial Assistant
Alex Smith is a senior at the University of Virginia studying architecture. After growing up in DC her interests include the connections between politics and architectural spaces, and the way public spaces guide human interactions.

Erica Wright
Senior Editor, Poetry
Erica Wright is the author of the forthcoming 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.

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.

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.

Santi Suthinithet
Assistant Art Editor
Santi Suthinithet's work has appeared in Asian Week, Planet Magazine, Urb, Beautiful Decay, Art Exit, the San Francisco Examiner, and BigThink.com, among other places. His writing on arts and culture was featured in the anthology The New Face of Asian Pacific America (Asian Week and UCLA Press). Santi was born in Laos and is currently based in New York City where he works as an editor and journalist.

Jamie Goldenberg
Art Assistant
Jamie is the design associate at Orion magazine. She has also previously worked for The Aperture Foundation. Her photographs have been published in a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal and Organic Gardening. She lives in Great Barrington, MA. Her website is jamiegoldenberg.com

Tara Jepson
Contributing Art Editor
Tara Jepson is a branding and marketing strategist who founded Inclined to Create in 2007 based on the concept of building and positioning brands through customized storytelling, creative thinking and innovation. She travels the world any opportunity she gets in search of emerging trends, consumer culture and the best street food she can find. 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 with her husband and their pug Matilda.

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.

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's chapbook, Hawk Weather, won the 2008 New Women's Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press and the 2009 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Paris Review, The New Republic, AGNI Online, Dogwood, and Barrow Street, and her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both 2008 and 2009. She teaches in the Writing, Literature & Publishing program at Emerson College, and is a Visiting Poet at Stonehill College.

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
Patrick Burns, Angela Chen, Rebecca Ebstein, Eline Gordts, Carolyn Keogh, Kelie Montalvo, and Sarah Secunda.