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Jen Michalski (Editor in Chief) lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland (BA in English) and received her MS in Professional Writing from Towson University. Her collection of short fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New Media (www.sonewpublishing.com/) and her chapbook Cross Sections: Selections From a Textbook of General Botany from Publishing Genius (www.publishinggenius.com). Her work has appeared in McSweeney's, Failbetter, storySouth, 42opus, The Potomac Review, The Summerset Review, The Avatar Review, Gargoyle, Smokelong Quarterly, deCOMP, The MacGuffin, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, The Pedestal, The Potomac, Hobart, Pank!, Lamination Colony, elimae, Hayden's Ferry Review (online), Monkeybicycle, Fringe, The Houston Review, Smile, Hon! You're in Baltimore!, Hamilton Stone Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Split Shot, Swill Magazine, 10x10x10, Ink Pot, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Apt, Literary Outlaw, 55 Stories, The Swamp, Fiction Warehouse, Lily, Gold Dust Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Litvision, SubtleTea, 13th Warrior Review, Swill Magazine, Skive Magazine, The Harrow, Conte Online, Rokovoko, Bending Spoons, and Scrivener's Pen. This is her first attempt at respectability. For more junk, visit jenmichalski.com
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Catherine Harrison (Senior Fiction Editor) has a BA in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland, an MAT in Secondary English from Goucher, and an MS in professional writing from Towson University and is currently working as a freelance writer and community college instructor. Being a student is her first love, but freelance writing and teaching aren't bad either.
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Jenny Sadre-Orafai (Senior Poetry Editor) writes both poetry and prose. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the following publications: Wicked Alice, Poems Neiderngasse, SubtleTea, Lily, Verse Libre Quarterly, can we have our ball back?, Red River Review, FRiGG, Sein und Werden, and Plainsongs. Her prose has appeared in Rock Salt Plum and in the forthcoming Seal Press anthology, Waking Up American. Her first chapbook, Weed Over Flower, will appear soon. She has hosted numerous open mics, in addition to competing in slams. She has also recorded a spoken word album. Jenny currently lives in Atlanta, where she is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. Ms. Sadre-Orafai is also an Instructor of English at Kennesaw State University. More information about Sadre-Orafai can be found on her web site, my words are better.
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Gary Lehmann (Biography Editor) teaches writing and poetry at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His essays, poetry, and short stories are widely published—about 60 pieces a year. He is the director of the Athenaeum Poetry group, which recently published its second chapbook, Poetic Visions. He also is author of a book of poetry entitled Public Lives and Private Secrets (Foothills Press, 2005) and co-author and editor of a book of poetry entitled The Span I Will Cross (Process Press, 2004). One of his poems has been nominated recently for the Pushcart Prize.
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Adam Robinson (Book Review Editor) is a writer and publisher from Baltimore. He operates Publishing Genius, the chapbook press. He frequently publishes and performs his poetry, and has a book forthcoming from Narrow House Press.
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Alyce Lomax (Associate Fiction Editor) has been writing since she could scribble and has considered that her vocation ever since. Publication credits include short fiction in Scrivener's Pen, The Harrow, Pindeldyboz, Drunken Boat, Lily, and The Paumanok Review. A native of the Washington, DC, area, she attended St. Mary's College of Maryland.
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Pam Pieroni (Associate Fiction Editor) has a husband, three children, and a house in Westchester County, New York. She earned her BS in Social Science from Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York (1992), and became a teacher for a few years. She went on to Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, to pursue a Masters in Elementary Reading and Writing. When her money and ambition began to run out, Pam knew what she was meant to do. Writing had always been her secret passion. She co-wrote and edited her father's WWII memoirs in Good Old Days Magazine, published an essay in The Journal News, and wrote an article for Child Care Magazine. She's now writing short fiction while she considers returning to graduate school.
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Megan Calhoun (Associate Ficton Editor), née Palatas, was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She received her bachelor's in Art History from Ohio University and her master's in Professional Writing from Towson University. Currently, Megan works as an executive assistant for a publishing company and lives in Arnold, Maryland, with her two cats and an indulgent husband. While she hopes to someday be a contributing member of society, she settles, in the meantime, for writing.
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Joshua Conklin (Associate Poetry Editor), a teacher by trade, is currently devoting a year to exclusively work on writing projects, including poetry, short fiction, and a family memoir. His poetry has been featured at Inkwell, SNR Review, JMWW, and Ocean.
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Timothy Quinlan (Associate Fiction Editor), grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He's not sure how he ended up in Baltimore, but that's what happened. He recently graduated from Goucher College with a BA in English, and is about to embark on a MS in professional writing at Towson University. He likes to get mixed up with fiction, art, music, film, and American culture.
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David Erlewine (Flash Editor) lives and lawyers near Annapolis. His beatific blog is http://whizbyfiction.blogspot.com/. He plans to keep writing little stories until he retires on June 13, 2032. Then he will tackle a novel and change his life.
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Adam Fishbein (Proofreader, Facebook Editor) graduated from University of Maryland-College Park in May 2009 and if everything goes as planned, he'll be starting an MFA program in Fall of 2010 for fiction writing. He likes to write but would really like to write better.
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