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.

Joel Whitney
Joel writes on art and politics. Recent work includes a book review on Cambodia for The New York Times and an essay on the Western canon and multiculturalism for 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 includes a book review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali for The Village Voice; short pieces on terrorism, torture and Jose Padilla for New York Magazine; interviews on Burma sanctions and Obama’s soft power for Courrier International in France; criticism on poetry, neuro-lit, and an interview on the death of neoconservatism for The San Francisco Chronicle. His poems appear in The Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni—his commentary on NPR. 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.

Kaye Cain-Nielsen
Managing Editor
Kaye Cain-Nielsen is a writer and editor living in Queens, NY.

Justin Alvarez
Editor for New Media and the Blog
Justin Alvarez is a writer and filmmaker currently living in New Jersey. His work has appeared in the Daedalus Review, the Pitkin Review, and Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetics. He is a graduate of New York University and Goddard College. You can learn more about him at justinalvarezfilms.com.

Meakin Armstrong
Senior Editor, Fiction
Meakin Armstrong is a freelance writer, magazine editor, and screenwriter working on his first novel. Among his awards, he received a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study “waitership.” 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). He has an autobiographical piece in Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Most recently, his fiction appeared in two anthologies, along with Wigleaf, NOÕ Journal, Our Stories Literary Journal, and InDigest. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker. You can follow him on Twitter and Fictionaut.

Rebecca Bates
Editor for the Blog
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.

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.

Jamie Goldenberg
Art Editor
Jamie Goldenberg is a photographer and photo editor based in Manhattan. She has previously worked as the Assistant Picture Editor at Orion magazine. Her photographs are frequently featured in the Wall Street Journal among other publications.

Glenna Gordon
Assistant 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.

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.

Sam Kerbel
Assistant Editor
Sam Kerbel graduated from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. As an undergraduate, he served as editor-in-chief of The Current, a quarterly undergraduate journal that covers politics, culture, and Jewish affairs. He is currently the Program Associate at Limmud NY, a nonprofit organization focused on Jewish learning. He is also a freelance writer based in Manhattan.

Christine Larusso
Editorial Assistant
Christine Larusso was born and raised in sunny Santa Monica, California. A poet, Christine is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM and the Mark Doty–edited anthology, New Voices, published by the Academy of American Poets.

Jillian Steinhauer
Editorial Assistant
Jillian Steinhauer is a writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. She has written about art and culture for Modern Painters, The Jewish Daily Forward, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. She is also a graduate student in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Genevieve Walker
Editorial Assistant
Genevieve Walker is a writer and illustrator who lives in Brooklyn. She recently earned a master’s degree in magazine writing from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has written for Salon.com, The New York Times Local Fort Greene-Clinton Hill; and Newsweek International. She is a contributor at Velojoy.com, a New York City cycling blog. She is on Twitter @pickled.

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.

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.

Dan Eckstein
Contributing 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.

Wes Enzinna
Contributing Editor
Wes Enzinna is an associate editor at The Oxford American. He lives in Arkansas.

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.

Chris Lombardi
Contributing Writer
Chris Lombardi is a freelance writer and an editor at the nonprofit website Women’s Voices for Change. Her work has been published by The Nation, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, Women’s Enews, and the American Bar Association Journal, among others; her fiction has appeared in Failbetter.com, Minnesota Review, Lurch, and The Pearl. Her book, I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Soldiers Who Dissent, from George Washington to John Murtha, will be published by University of California Press at the end of 2011.

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.

Suzanne Menghraj
Contributing Writer
Suzanne Menghraj teaches writing in New York University’s Liberal Studies Program and is currently based at the university’s Florence, Italy campus. Before leaving the U.S., Suzanne served for two years on the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s board of directors, and was a consultant for the Vera Institute of Justice and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2008, she received an NYU faculty grant to support her work on a series of essays that appeared in Guernica between February 2009 and May 2010. She is currently at work on a book of personal and critical essays, and a novel. She grew up in the Bronx and in Queens, and will return to Brooklyn in 2011.

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.

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
Carmen García (Blog), Will Carington, Sebastian Castillo, Andrea T. Jones, Alex Hall, Alexandra Weber (Art)