Masthead

This is a list of names to which you can address your cover letter if you are the polite sort.
And also there’s a little more about us if you’re curious about who is reading your work:

 

Jane-Rebecca Cannarella – Editor – is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. In her spare time, she is a candy enthusiast and cat fan. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones (Thirty West Publishing House),  Thirst & Frost (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), and others.

Marie Marandola
 – Managing Editor – Marie is a badass feminist poet who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees from the ground and giving them to people.

 Branden Boynton – Managing Editor – A son of the West Coast, Branden holds an MFA from San Diego State University. He’s interested in writing about theme parks, platonic truths, pop culture, the macabre, and of course that old standard: heartbreak beyond compare

 


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Founders: 


Amanda Vacharat
– Editor/Co-Founder/Art Director – has worked as an editorial assistant at a Fiction/Nonfiction Editing company. She has also taken fiction classes at the John Hopkins Creative Writing graduate program, and interned at the Potomac Review. Her work has been published in elimae and Monkeybicycle. She attended Swarthmore College, which crystallized and expanded her quirkiness, creativity, and eclecticism.  She majored in psychobiology and theater.  Afterwards, she moved to New York City, where it turned out people weren’t quite as nice as at Swarthmore.  She eventually moved to Baltimore, where people actually were as nice as at Swarthmore—and similarly quirky.  She took up writing seriously, taking fiction classes at John Hopkins University.  Now she lives her dream come true (outside of Philadelphia): she works on about 1,000 different creative projects.  And eats Thai food when possible.

Dorian Geisler – Co-Founder – is a professor of poetry in Arcadia University’s MFA program. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Believer, Hayden’s FerryReview, LVNG, and the Berkeley Poetry Review.   He grew up in Dallas, Texas before attending U.C. Berkeley where he baffled his future self and all his relatives by majoring in philosophy.  Afterwards, he moved to New York to teach high school English as a New York City Teaching Fellow.  He only lasted one year, and by the end of the next he was back in Berkeley, eating peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and working on a writing sample to apply to M.F.A. schools in creative writing–one of which actually accepted him!  He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he learned a lot about writing and how to integrate . . . and not integrate . . . what other people thought about his writing.  After graduating he moved back to the east coast, first to New York, then to Baltimore, and then to the greater Philadelphia area, where he now resides.

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4 Responses to “Masthead”
  1. djt32 says:

    insomnia, writer. s. philly. like what i read on your site.
    cheers

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