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 is 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, and his January interview with David Frum is forthcoming in Esquire Russia. 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 is also contributor to the book, New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (Dist U of Chicago Press). Most recently, his work appeared in Our Stories Literary Journal, InDigest, Sweeeeet, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. His work is forthcoming in NOÕ Journal and an upcoming book on movies. For eight years, he worked at The New Yorker. You can follow him on Twitter.

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.

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

Elizabeth Onusko
Managing Editor
Elizabeth Onusko received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Fordham University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry East, 42opus, The Briar Cliff Review, Poet Lore, and Coal Hill Review. She is a fundraiser for a non-profit arts center.

Swetha Regunathan
Assistant Editor
Swetha Regunathan hails from New Jersey and Mississippi. She holds a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and works in the perilous publishing industry. Her writing has appeared in The Jackson Free Press, The Columbia Daily Spectator, Tablet, and Quarto. She happily reads, writes, and lives in Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

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
Adaeze Elechi, Jordan Hirsch, Kyle McAuley, and Francis Reynolds