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Brian Cordell, Managing Editor

Brian Cordell lives in Tuckahoe, New York with his dog, Spoon. When he isn’t busy teaching composition and literature at Bergen Community College, writing a student advice column in the Beijing newspaper, English Weekly, and playing with his dog, he remembers that he is the editor for an online journal and figures that he should probably do some work on that. His poems have most recently appeared in when it rains from the ground up.

Marie McGrath, Fiction Editor

When she's not enjoying hickory burgers at local joints in Oklahoma, Marie McGrath lives, writes, teaches, and drives Ms. Daisy around New York. She enjoys travel, but has no intention of riding the space elevator - whenever NASA gets around to building it. One of her favorite places to visit on Earth is Texas, where she enjoys playing chopsticks with Mike's kids and walking Brian's dog. Marie recently received her MFA in Writing at Vermont College.

Mike Matthews, Poetry Editor

Most of Mike Matthews’s poetry leaks out of his fountain pen in the early morning hours in one of two coffee shops that stay open that late in Austin, Texas. During the daytime hours in the summer, he plays with his young children, Jade and Drae, his two boys, and Sophia, his girl-girl. Since he teaches college English courses in Killeen, Texas, at Central Texas College, he gets to be a big kid and throw his boys in the pool as far as he can during his breaks between semesters. In between his practice sessions for his attempts to become the city’s best unknown saxophone player, he sends his wee-hour poems to obscure places for publication. So far he has published poems in several journals, including one in Seattle called when it rains from the ground up. He has also been working on breaking into Brit. Lit., and has published in Glasgow, Scotland, and Bristol, England in an anthology called The Book of Hopes and Dreams, published by Bluechrome, which features poets like Margaret Atwood and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Check out Dee Rimbaud’s website for info. On how to purchase the book: http://www.thunderburst.co.uk ). Mike Matthews hopes that one day the magical liopleurodon of poetry will sprinkle magic scales on his manuscript so that it might be accepted as a book. When the royalties start rolling in from his poetry as they do for poets, his wife, Venus Demilo, should be able to quit her job as a PT and start her own therapy spa business.

Chris Smith, Fiction Editor

The last we heard from Chris, he had packed up his car with all of his earthly belongings and headed out west, driving, presumably, into the Pacific Ocean.

Marie Masters

Marie Masters is a Michigan-based writer, editor, and college professor. She has written for the Detroit Free Press and various local magazines… has edited numerous publications, including several glossies and an e-zine… and now also teaches journalism, composition, and creative writing at the sixth largest community college in the country. Masters has published several essays and a short story, and recently added a memoir/novel completed as a result of the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts to her growing list of “things I hope to have published soon.”

Stephen Cordell, Graphic Designer

To answer the imminent question, Stephen is Brian's brother. He lives in Irving, TX and works as a printer at a prominent online stationery company. Some think he is a bohemian with a goatee and long hair. He does love music and plays guitar and bass, when he's not playing strategy board games with friends. Stephen also loves art and looks at life from that perspective.

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