Ravi Shankar, Executive Director

Ravi Shankar is co-Director of the Creative Writing Program at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of Drunken Boat. He has published four books of poems, including Seamless Matter, Voluptuous Bristle, Wanton Textiles, and Instrumentality. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond (W.W Norton & Co.), called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been featured in The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education, appeared on the BBC and NPR, and has performed his work around the world. He is currently on the faculty of the first international MFA Program at City University of Hong Kong. Norah Jones is not among his daughters.

Sarah Clark, Managing Editor & Web Editor

Sarah Clark has worked with a number of literary publications, including Open City, The Paris Review, The Del Sol Review, and Blackbird, and edited DB11’s sound art folio. She’s been published here and there, but you’ll have to prise her CV from her cold dead hands to find out where. Sarah is completing a graduate degree in modernist literature at Queen Mary, University of London, or will expat trying. You can see her tweet for Drunken Boat here.

Rob Ray, Art Editor

Rob Ray examines technology in public and outdoors spaces. This examination results in interactive public artworks, experimental films and audio works. His most recent interactive work, GETLOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Cumbria and Lancashire, UK. His video game disguised as ATM, Bucky’s Animal Spirit, was selected for the art.tech exhibition at The Lab (San Francisco), and the (re)load exhibition at Antena (Chicago). Other recent exhibitions include the Without You I’m Nothing show at Green Lantern Gallery (Chicago) and the Squirrel! exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside (Troy, NY). Recent filmworks include Canaries in the Coalmine, exhibited at the Onion City Fim Festival (Chicago) and winner of the DIGIT 2009 Excellence in Cinematography prize.

Rob also collaborates with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom as a member of the Chicago-based circuit-bent multimedia noise trio I Love Presets. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founder and head curator of DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL. DEADTECH’s unique curatorial vision, residency facilities, and exhibition and workshop spaces were all created to cater to the specific needs of the electronic artist and performer. DEADTECH exhibited artists from across the globe including the Beige Programming Ensemble, Trevor Paglen, Norman White, Kevin Drumm, T.V. Pow and Kazuyuki K. Null. Rob is currently attending Rensselear Polytechnic Institute’s Electronic Arts MFA program in Troy, NY.

Michael Bullock, Assistant Art Editor

Michael T. Bullock is a composer, improviser, video artist, illustrator and writer living in Boston, MA, USA. His modes of work include electroacoustic composition, improvisation, drawing, and video. Bullock performs across the US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, steve roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel. Bullock’s music has been released by numerous labels including Cassauna, Winds Measure, Sedimental, Grob, 1.8sec, al Maslakh, and Homophoni. He recently completed the first PhD from the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Deborah Poe, Fiction Editor

Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University. She is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008), as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. She has received several literary awards including three Pushcart Prize nominations for her poetry and the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) for her poetry and fiction.

Deborah’s writing is forthcoming or has appeared in Colorado Review, Sidebrow, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Journal, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Drunken Boat and other journals as well as in the anthologies Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Deborah is also co-editor of the short fiction anthology, provisionally entitled “Between Worlds,” with her colleague Ama Wattley.

Deborah was born a military brat in Del Rio, Texas and has lived throughout the United States and abroad. After her undergraduate studies, she worked in various positions including hostel clerk and bartender in Paris, environmental activist in Austin, a waitress in Taos, engineering assistant at Oregon Steel Mill in Portland, editor and international program manager in Seattle and educator in Washington and New York.

She has taught at Western Washington University, where she received her Master of Arts, and at Binghamton University, SUNY, where she received her doctoral degree. She has also taught as afternoon faculty at the Port Townsend Writer’s Workshop in Washington. More information can be found at DeborahPoe.com, including upcoming readings and audio/video of past performances.

Holly Wendt, Assistant Fiction Editor

Holly Wendt is an English Instructor at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. She teaches and has taught creative writing, composition, and medieval literature at Casper College, at Binghamton University, where she received her doctoral degree, and at Ohio University, where she received her Master of Arts degree.

Previously, she has served as the book review editor and as a reader for Quarter After Eight and as managing editor for Harpur Palate. Her short fiction has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, and she is currently at work on several novel projects. Holly is the co-director for the 2010 Equality State Book Festival.

Heather Bryant, Nonfiction Editor

Heather Bryant is the Spring 2010 Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Randolph College. She won the 2009 Southeast Review Narrative Nonfiction Contest. A fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Visiting Artist in writing at the American Academy in Rome in 2009, she has taught writing at the Youth Action Coalition and the Girl Scout Scholars Program. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming with The Southeast Review, Women Writers, and Seal Press.

Elizabeth Edmonson, Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Elizabeth Edmonson is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2007. She was awarded the Charlotte Paul Reiss ‘38 Memorial Prize for Creativity in Writing in 2004 and the Lucy Grealy Scholarship in 2005. She is finishing a memoir about growing up in a high-demand Christian community on Cape Cod, and hopes to find a publisher in the not-too-distant future. She lives in an apartment filled with sun and books twenty minutes outside of Boston.

Tamiko Beyer, Poetry Editor

Tamiko Beyer is the author of the poetry collection bough breaks (Meritage Press). Her poems have appeared in H_ngm_n, Sonora Review, Copper Nickel Review and elsewhere. She has been a Kundiman Fellow, a recipient of a grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and an Olin and Chancellor’s Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis where received her M.F.A. She is a founding member of Agent 409: a queer writing collective in New York City. She leads writing workshop for at-risk youth and is a mentor with Girls Write Now.

Michelle Brown, Assistant Poetry Editor

Michelle Chan Brown’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Prism Review, Tampa Review, KNOCK, Gertrude, Broken Bridge Review, The Concher, Yemassee, and textsound. She earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she received the Michael R. Gutterman prize. She lives in Pomfret, Connecticut, where she is the Writer-in-Residence at Pomfret School. Her chapbook The Clever Decoys is now available from Love Among the Ruins press.

Jean-Jacques Poucel, Contributing Editor at Large

Jean-Jacques Poucel is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Jean-Jacques Poucel teaches French language and literature at Yale University. He is the author Jacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory (UNC Press, 2006) and has completed studies on several members of the Oulipo, some of which appear in Yale French Studies and Poetics Today, both of which he co-edited. He is a member of the collective Double Change. His is currently working on a study of French lyric poetry from the early nineties to the present.

Claire Zoghb, Graphic Designer

Claire Zoghb’s collection, Small House Breathing, won the 2008 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award. A chapbook, Dispatches from Everest, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. Her poems have appeared in Connecticut Review, CALYX, Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America (The Lebanon Issue), Natural Bridge, Through A Child’s Eyes: Poems and Stories About War, and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. She holds an MALS from Wesleyan University. A freelance graphic artist/book designer, Claire lives in New Haven’s Morris Cove neighborhood and works across the harbor as Graphics Director at Long Wharf Theatre.

Ann Bogle, Fiction Reader

Ann Bogle’s short stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Fiction International, Gulf Coast, Black Ice, Big Bridge, Mad Hatters’ Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Metazen, Wigleaf, and other journals. Her prose poem chapbook, XAM: Paragraph Series, was published by Xexoxial Editions in 2005. Her poetry chapbook, dog barks up a tree at the apple left in it under a deerslim moon, was published by Orium Press for the Dusie Kollektiv in 2008. Solzhenitsyn Jukebox, a collection of five stories, was published by Argotist Ebooks in 2010. She studied writing at University of Wisconsin at Madison with Lorrie Moore, at Binghamton University with Larry Woiwode and Jerome Rothenberg, and at University of Houston with Rosellen Brown and James Robison. Her M.F.A. is from University of Houston in 1994. She edits creative nonfiction and book reviews at Mad Hatters’ Review. She published her weblog, Ana Verse, as a book in 2009. Some of her new and reprinted work appears at Fictionaut.

Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine, Fiction Reader

Stephanie received her MFA in Writing & Literature from Bennington College, where she was the editor of the Bennington Review. Her novella Ghost Bite was the winner of the 2005-06 Quarterly West Novella Prize. She currently lives in Philadelphia and on the web at StephanieKing.net.

Joseph Truscello, Fiction Reader

Joseph Truscello grew up in Wallkill, New York, between a horse farm and a hayfield. He has a degree in English literature from Pace University and is currently finishing his Masters of Arts at Brooklyn College. His thesis is “The Commodified Self: Identity in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus.” As a writer and scholar, he is interested in the interaction between the self and socially constructed apparatuses—namely distinctions of class, gender, and race. He is a Bikram yoga enthusiast and jogs regularly in vibram five finger shoes.

Judy Yu, Fiction Reader

Judy Yu has an MFA in writing fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught writing workshops to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth; domestic violence survivors; and at after school programs. Judy is a member of Agent 409, a multi-racial, queer writing group that has performed and presented workshops in New York City; Washington D.C.; Boston, MA; and Atlanta, GA. She has been a featured reader at the blogger reading and performance showcase, WYSIWYG, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City in June 2006. She has two essays in Visible: A Femmethology, published in 2009 by Homofactus Press. Judy is currently working on a novel about the first Chinese woman on record to come to the United States who was put on display as a “living curio” in New York City.

Ann Fine, Poetry Reader

Ann M. Fine’s book of poems, A Nest This Size, was published by Shearsman Books in November of 2009. Her poems have appeared in the journals Diner, Nocturnes Review of Literary Arts, Sonora Review, Cue, on-line at NoTell Motel, La Fovea, and The Drunken Boat, Moria, Action, Yes! and elsewhere. She is an MFA graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont, where she studied poetry and architectural history and theory. She has been the director of two community writing centers, Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, Arizona (which she also co-founded), and InkTank World Headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently teaches college English and Poetry courses in Tucson, Az.

Daniel Lin, Poetry Reader

Daniel Lin is a NYC poet with a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books. He publishes Love Among the Ruins, a small press.

PF Potvin, Poetry Reader

PF Potvin teaches writing, serves as Writing Center faculty consultant, and chairs the Writing Awards at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of The Attention Lesson by No Tell Books (2006). His poetry and fiction have appeared in the Boston Review, Born Magazine, MiPOesias, Slope, Sleepingfish, Sentence, No Tell Motel, An Introduction to the Prose Poem, (Firewheel Editions) and elsewhere. His manuscripts have been finalists for the New Issues Press Competition and the Poetry Center Prize. He has received residency scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and Casa Libre en la Solana. He has run marathons and ultramarathon races in Iceland, Germany, New Zealand, and throughout the U.S.A. He currently resides in Ann Arbor and can be spied at www.pfpotvin.com.

Christina Rizzo, Poetry Reader

Christina Rizzo was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Bennington College and is the author of the chapbook No Such Person is Likely to Appear (Finishing Line Press 2008). She works as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst serving children with developmental disabilities.

Hayden Saunier, Poetry Reader

Hayden Saunier’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in 5 A.M., Beloit Poetry Journal, Margie, Nimrod, and Rattle. Her first collection of poetry, Tips For Domestic Travel, was just published by Black Lawrence Press. Also an actress, her film and television credits include The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, The West Wing, and Hack and her most recent voice-over adventure finds her as the voice of an aging, burnt-out oven for Ikea. More can be found at her website.

Kendra L. Tanacea, Poetry Reader

Kendra L. Tanacea, an attorney in San Francisco, holds an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, where she completed her first poetry collection, If You’re Lucky Nobody Gets Hurt, a finalist for the Starrett Prize. Kendra’s poems have appeared in 5AM, Rattle, Pearl, Pebble Lake Review, and other literary journals and she frequently performs public readings of her work. She has a BA in English from Wellesley College.

Jeff DeLargey, Nonfiction Reader

Jeff DeLargy is a software engineer and writer residing in Austin, Texas. He recently completed an MFA in nonfiction at Bennington College and his work has appeared in Sorin Oak. A long journey on foot—The Roads to Sata, for example—is his current passion.

Caitlin Leffel, Nonfiction Reader

Caitlin Leffel is a writer, editor, and co-author of The Best Things to Do in New York: 1001 Ideas (2006) and NYC: An Owner’s Manual (2008). This year she officially became a bicoastal writer with the publication of Flair, an entertaining guide she wrote with Los Angeles interior designer Joe Nye. She has written for Blackbook , Time Out New York , Fashion Week Daily , and Mademoiselle , and was recently named as a runner-up in the Southeast Review’s 2010 nonfiction contest. She’s a founding member of the online literary happy hour “Five on Friday,” a graduate of Amherst College, and a very recent graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.

Christina Saraceno, Nonfiction Reader

Christina Saraceno received her MFA degree from Columbia University. She lives in New York and is at work on a collection of short stories titled From the Same Place.

Amanda Dambrink, Nonfiction Reader

Amanda Dambrink is an MA candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. She also teaches at OU, reads for Quarter After Eight and New Ohio Review, contributes to the online essay anthology at essays.quotidiana.org, and works with Kim Dana Kupperman over at Welcome Table Press.

Brett Haymaker, Illustrator & Proofreader

A Master’s Candidate in Drew University’s MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation low-residency program, Brett recently moved to Chicago, Illinois. His work has been published in Willows Wept Review, the Philadelphia CITYPAPER, Maya, and The 33rd, among others. His illustrations include artwork for poet Harriet Levin, novelist Peter Damian Bellis, The Saucon Valley Community Gardens Association, the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride (PNBR) 2010, and Drunken Boat.

Joseph Pascale, Editorial Assistant

Joseph Patrick Pascale is a fiction writer from New Jersey. His work has been published or is forthcoming in South Jersey Underground, Thaumatrope, 365 Tomorrows, Tweet the Meat, PicFic, Off The Rocks, and Prism literary journal. He is currently studying toward his Master of Arts degree in English Literature at Centenary College where he teaches first year writing courses. More information is available at josephpascale.pyraliss.com.

Rebecca Padrick, Editorial Assistant

Rebecca Padrick is studying English Literature at Metropolitan State College of Denver. When she is not obsessing over the written word, she enjoys vegan food and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Brent Canle, Editorial Intern

Brent Michael Canle is a poet/writer from Long Island, NY. After a brief stint in the MFA program at The New School, he has since left to make careless mistakes all over the world. He maintains and rambles in a blog at reallysmallprint.blogspot.com. His work has appeared in your Inbox.

Maia Livengood, Editorial Intern

Maia Livengood is an undergraduate at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completing her BS degree in Finance and Economics. Following a one-year internship with the Painted Bride Quarterly, she worked as their editorial co-op under the direction of Kathleen Volk Miller, Editor-in-Chief. She is a current Arts and Entertainment staff writer for Drexel’s student newspaper, The Triangle, and is an editor/staff writer for Ask, the journal of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Luke Albertson, Editorial Intern

Luke Albertson is a poet and literature enthusiast majoring in English at Central Connecticut State University. He enjoys hiking, ice cream and Emily Dickinson, and can likely be found running the trails of New Britain, CT. Follow his ecocritical ponderings at www.naturecroons.com.

Xinyi Yu, Public Relations Intern

Xinyi Yu is a graduate student in public relations at Iona College. She completed her undergraduate degree in media management and mass communications at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, China.