Michael Archer
Michael is an adjunct professor of English and speech at City College (CUNY), New York, where he received his MA in creative writing. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Biography, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Woman’s Day, and Men’s Edge, among others. His fiction has appeared in Epiphany and Promethean. He recently completed his first novel, We Are Very Men.

Joel Whitney
Joel's writing and commentary have appeared recently 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. In 2003, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry. He lives in Brooklyn.

Tara Jepson
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.

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
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, 2007). Most recently, his work appeared in Sweeeeet, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. It will also be in an upcoming book on movies.

Katherine Dykstra
Editor
Katherine Dykstra is a contributor to the New York Post Home section, a teacher at Gotham Writers' Workshop, a freelance writer, and a personal essayist. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Allure, The Independent: Film and Video Monthly, Fodor's Guidebooks and Ironminds.com, among other publications and she holds an MFA in nonfiction from The New School University. She has an essay in the recently published anthology 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers.

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 Time Out, New York Magazine, Esquire, Spin and many others. He also teaches photography for the non-profit organization, Common Ground. His most recent project took him to North Asia where he documented the phenomenal changes taking place in China. He currently lives in New York City.

Elizabeth Onusko
Managing Editor
Elizabeth Onusko earned an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Fordham University, where she teaches. She has been published in Poetry East and was named a finalist for the 2008-2009 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship.

Nancy Rawlinson
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Contributing Editor
Gibson's articles, poems and reviews have appeared in Backwards City Review, The New Republic, Portland Phoenix, Publishers Weekly, Prairie Schooner, and Time Out: New York, and are forthcoming in Boston Review, Pleiades and Western Humanities Review. His work is featured at fishousepoems.org, an audio archive of emerging poets, and he was awarded the Bellevue Literary Review's Magliocco Prize for Poetry.

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, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 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 freelance journalist living in Ossining, NY. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Editor and Publisher and New York magazine. He holds an Masters in Journalism from Iona College.

(Founding) Contributing Editor
Joshua Jones

Intern
Rubaiyat Kabir