Editor-in-Chief

Minna Proctor has been an editor and consultant in publishing for over ten years. She was editor of Colors, managing editor of Bomb, and recently consultant on the launch of Good. Her book on the idea of religious calling in America, Do You Hear What I Hear?: Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father was published by Viking in 2004. Her essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Aperture, Bookforum, The LA Times Book Review, Guilt and Pleasure, The Nation, American Scholar, and The New York Times Book Review. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Bogliasco in Italy. Minna's translation of Love in Vain, Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi (New Directions) won the PEN Poggioli Prize. Her other translations include Bruno Arpaia's novel, The Angel of History (Canongate).

Editor Emeritus

Walter Cummins has close to 100 stories in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly, Other Voices, Crosscurrents, Florida Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, South Carolina Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Confrontation, and on the Internet. His previous story collections are titled Witness and Where We Live. The most recent, Local Music, was published in 2007.  Early in his career, he published two novels. He also has published essays, articles, and reviews.  A chapbook of his stories is available on Web del Sol. With Thomas E. Kennedy, he is co-author of The Literary Explorer (Del Sol Press), and with George Gordon, co-author of Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity (Praeger). His website is www.waltercumins.com.

Editor-at-Large

René Steinke is the author of two novels, The Fires (William Morrow) and Holy Skirts (William Morrow) which was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in fiction. Her work has also been published in such places as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsday, and TriQuarterly. Her essay "The Peppy Girls of Friendswood, Texas" was published in With Love and Squalor: Writers on the Work of J.D. Salinger, and her essay "What Coco Ate" appears in the book Dog Culture.

Poetry Editors

Renée Ashley's books of poetry include Salt, The Various Reasons of Light, and The Revisionist's Dream. Her novel, Someplace Like This, was published by Permanent Press in 2003. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and the Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review. A former poetry editor for Tiferet, she was the Assistant Poetry Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

David Daniel's full-length collection, Seven-Star Bird, was published by Graywolf Press (distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He has been called, by Harold Bloom, “an authentic heir to Hart Crane. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. He received degrees from Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Virginia, where he was a Hoynes Fellow. He is the Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University and former poetry editor of the literary journal Ploughshares. His website is www.daviddanielpoetry.com.

Review Editor

Jena Salon's work has appeared in various journals such as n+1 and Philadelphia Stories, and in the literary anthology Upstart Crows. She is an adjunct professor of creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she received her MFA.

Assistant Editor

Jody Handerson has a widely varied background in the visual and performing arts. She currently applies her literary talent as a technical writer and editor for an environmental consulting company. She is an MFA student in the Fairleigh Dickinson University creative writing program.

Editorial Assistants

Katherine Sauchelli is a fiction writer starting Fairleigh Dickinson's MFA program this fall; she also teaches composition at Raritan Valley Community College.  

Ian Stone has had various publications in small press literary journals. He is a poetry student in the Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA creative writing program..

Contributing Editors

John E. Becker is author of Hawthorne's Historical Allegory: An Examination of the American Conscience, former literary editor of Worldview and founding editor of Founding Editor, IDOC-North America.  His essays have appeared in many publications.

Martin Green, a medievalist by training, has branched out during his career into other areas, such as communication and American Studies. His recent research interest is the history of American periodicals and most recent publication is an article about American periodicals from 1870-1920 in American History Through Literature.

Harry Keyishian is the author of Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies, 1931-2001 (2003); The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare (1995; reissued in paperback, 2003); Critical Essays on William Saroyan (1995); and Michael Arlen (1975). He also is the director of Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Marjorie Deiter Keyishian has published poetry, fiction, and articles in a wide variety of journals, including Fiction, The Literary Review, The English Record, New York Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and The New York Times, among many others. Her books include Stephen King, A Young Person’s Biography of the Popular Author. For eleven years she served as editor of the The New Jersey Journal of Poets

Michael Morse has published poems in various literary magazines, including the Antioch Review, Field, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. He has been a fellow at the Millay Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Ledig House International Writers’ Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and the Willard Espy Literary Foundation. 

William Zander is the author of Distances (poetry, Solo Press). His poems and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Audubon, Connoisseur, Fly Fisherman, Yankee, Poetry Northwest, New Letters, kayak, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Defined Providence, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner.

Advisory Editors

Beth Bjorklund is the author of A Study in Comparative Prosody (1978) and Contemporary Austrian Poetry (1986). She is the translator of literary works by the contemporary Viennese authors Mayröcker and Welsh, published in English as Night Train (1992) and Constance Mozart: An Unimportant Woman (1997). She also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Politics in German Literature (1998). Her recent essays are on semiotics, free verse, and the poetic prose of Mayröcker.

Andonis Decavalles (in memoriam) was considered one of the most important contemporary poets of the Greek diaspora.  The English version of his selected poems is titled Ransoms to Time  His critical studies include Odysseus Elytis: From the Golden to the Silver Poem.  The Andonis Decavalles collection is housed in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. 

Lane Dunlop is a leader translator of Japanese fiction.  His translations and co-translations include Autumn Wind & Other Stories by Kafu Nagai, Floating Clouds
by Fumiko Hayashi, and Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata.

H.E. Francis is the author of many novels and story collections, including Goya, Are You with Me Now, The Invisible Country, The Itinerary of Beggars, The Sudden Trees and Other Stories, The Disturbance of Gulls and Other Stories, and I’ll Never Leave You: Stories.  He also is a well-know translator of writing in Spanish. 

Thomas E. Kennedy has published the four novels of the Copenhagen Quartet.  His other books include Crossing Borders (novel), Unreal City (stories), A Weather of the Eye (short novel), The Book of Angels (novel), Drive, Dive, Dance & Fight (stories), Murphy's Angel (stories), Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction, Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction,and Robert Coover: A Study of the Short Fiction. Forthcoming are a novel, A Passion in the Desert, and a story collection, Cast Upon the Day.  His many stories have won O. Henry and Pushcart awards. He also has published essays, interviews, and photographs.

Bharati Mukherjee’s novels include The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Jasmine,  The Holder of the World, Leave It to Me, Desirable Daughters, and The Tree Bride.  Her story collections are Darkness andThe Middleman and Other Stories, which won the National Book Critics Award.  She is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

J.P. Seaton is a major translator of Chinese poetry.  His books include The Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, I  Don’t Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei, and The Essential Chuang Tzu (co-authored with Sam Hamill), which has also been published in translation in Spanish, Portugese and Dutch. Many of his poetry translations have recently been anthologized in A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz, in the Norton Anthology World Poetry, and in the Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.

Sudeep Sen is the 2004 recipient of the prestigious 'Pleiades' honour at the world's oldest poetry festival — the Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia — for having made "significant contribution to modern world poetry." Winner of many international and national prizes, he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA) for poems included in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins). He has been translated into many languages, and his new books include: Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and Rain. His other writings have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Independent, Herald, London Magazine, and Literary Review. Sen was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the editor of Atlas, editorial director of Aark Arts, and lives in New Delhi. His webite is www/sudeepsen.net.

Charles Simic has published more than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad, among them My Noiseless Entourage; Selected Poems: 1963-2003, for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems ; Night Picnic; The Book of Gods and Devils; Jackstraws, which was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times; Walking the Black Cat, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; A Wedding in Hell; Hotel Insomnia; The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Selected Poems: 1963-1983; and Unending Blues.

Ilan Stavans teaches at Amherst College, where he is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture. His books include The Hispanic Condition,  Tropical Synagogues, The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, The One-Handed Pianist. On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language; The Essential Ilan Stavans; and The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories and The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and the recipient of the Latino Literature Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors.