Tom Bair – Editor
Tom Bair is a freelance writer, editor, copy editor, proofreader, and basketball player. Four of the above are true. Clearly, he is not as clever as he'd like to be. He even finds his penchant for self-deprecation pedantic. Please hang up and dial again.
Dana Jaye Cadman – Editor
Dana Jaye has always been a writer and a waitress. She is an owner of cats and a player of casual flash games. She is currently working on a book of invented poem forms and a sitcom pilot.
Carmen Mojica Fabian – Contributor
I am an Afro-Dominican woman born and raised in the Bronx. I am a writer and certified birth doula. I am a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), a sister of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc., and the Intangible Collective. The focus of my work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. I utilize my experience as a birth doula to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for womyn of color, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States. In October 2009, I completed and self-published my literary work called ‘Hija De Mi Madre’ (My Mother’s Daughter), which is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that not only explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint but also shares my life as a living example. I am working on returning to school to become a certified nurse-midwife to continue to advocate for womyn and their overall well-being.
Zev Noah Gottdiener – Contributor
Zev Noah Gottdiener was born in Southern California in a log cabin he built with his own two hands. As an anthropologist, writer, and musician Zev Noah's work has been described as: “slaughtering the sacred cow, with good taste“. Zev is currently conducting fieldwork with the Ejido Isla de la Piedra, Sinaloa as a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow in GIS and Anthropology at the University of Buffalo. His research interests are place making in everyday life, cultural heritage, and the political economy of land use.
Dana Frances Haitkin – Editor
Dana Frances Haitkin is a teacher from Shaolin. She is a prolific writer of apocalyptic fictions, focusing on time travel, the hypothetical scientifically proven existence of God, and the young adult psyche. She lives with a guinea pig named Milhouse and a human named Steve.
lewis levenberg – Editor
lewis levenberg doesn't capitalize his name and if you don't agree with it, you can capitalize his name.
Sophie Nusinov – CFO
Sophie Nusinov is an arts educator and performer based in New York and D.C. She specializes in Music, Dance, and Theater and has performed internationally. She can fly, and her favorite color is yellow.
Leigh Phillips – Contributor
Leigh Phillips is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College with the City University of New York. Her stories, memoirs, poems and criticism most recently appear in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, Rhino, and So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. She is currently writing an epistolary novel in verse, for which she received a generous grant from the CUNY Research Foundation.
Tracy Soren – Contributor
Tracy Soren aspires to write, act, and film things. She is a fervent supporter of temping and tells all those facing rough economic times to become temporary. She gained many useful things from temping, ie. an umbrella, free peach lotion, a rented tuxedo, a Starbucks gift card, independence, employment, cash papa dollas, left over food, soul-enriching relationships, and a tote bag she always uses! After years of performing spoken word and competing in poetry slams, she randomly signed up for a sketch writing class AND finally read the Harry Potter series. Needless to say, both were life-changing. She is now following her childhood dream of being in comedy and banking with goblins.Tracy is currently studying improv, sketch comedy, and video sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in New York. In her free time, people tell her the endings to the books she is reading.
