Arlene Ang lives and writes in Spinea, Italy where she also serves as poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine. Seeing Birds in Church Is a Kind of Adieu, her third full-length collection of poetry, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press. To date, googling her name in private has never earned anyone a death threat or a chicken bucket at KFC. [website]

Valerie Fox has lived in two houses, thirteen apartments, and five rooms. Currently she lives in New Jersey with her husband and young daughter. She teaches at Drexel University in the Department of English and Philosophy. Her writings have appeared in 5_trope, Hanging Loose, Phoebe, qarrtsiluni, West Branch and other journals. [website]

Phyllis Wat is a poet (Shadow Blue, The Fish Soup Bowl Expedition) and a founding co-editor of 6ix (1991-2000), a language-oriented magazine. A graduate of the writing program at Temple University, she migrated to Maureeen Owen's workshop at the St. Marks Poetry Project, and became an aficionado of New York School poetics. [website]

Contributing Editors

Jordan Schilling is a student at Drexel University and is deeply involved in the Drexel Publishing Group. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Maya, Drexel University’s undergraduate literary magazine, and serves as the managing editor of Rittenhouse Magazine. [website]

Dennis Moritz writes poetry plays and poems. His book—Something to Hold onto, Nine Theater Pieces—was published by United Artist Books, the longtime poetry press edited by Lewis Warsh. It is the only book of plays ever published by UAB. Over thirty of his theater works have received professional production. His poems have appeared in The World, Long News for a Short Century, 6ix and elsewhere.

Regular Columnists

Nicole Kline is a multi-tasking secretary and webmaster by day, avid gamer and inhaler of literature by night. Her hobbies include knitting, mastering the slow cooker, and shopping for that perfect pair of jeans. She is a critical fashionista and a digester of Japanese culture, entertainment, and cuisine. You can find her in comic shops, video game expos, and, of course, Anthropologie. [blog]

Susan Smith Nash examines poetics and the convergences of text, media, and culture in recent articles published in Gargoyle, Talisman, Golden Handcuffs Review, and World Literature Today. She functions as managing editor for Texture Press, and maintains an edublog, www.elearningqueen.com where she is assistant to the faithful Corgi, the Queen. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

Robert Anthony Watts is a former newspaper reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Associated Press, who has has written on education, inner-city economic development and race relations. He teaches English and writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Currently, he is working on a novel about the civil rights movement in Mississippi.