Christina M. Rau, Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Editor
Christina M. Rau is a full-time professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College and a member of the Creative Writing Project. She also founded and currently directs Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY. She is a poet and avid blogger.
Beth Smith, Fiction Editor / Design and Layout Editor
Beth Smith is a full-time professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College. She is currently chair of the Creative Writing Project at NCC.
Emily Hegarty, Non-Fiction Editor / Subscriptions Director
Emily Hegarty is a full-time professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College.
Tim Wood, Critical Essay Editor
Tim Wood is a full-time professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College. He is co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2008) and author of the book of poems Otherwise Known as Home (BlazeVOX 2010). He has also published articles on Robert Grenier’s graphic poems, Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino’s collaborative work Sight, and Herman Melville’s epic poem Clarel.
Sally Drucker, Lead Copy Editor
Sally Ann Drucker is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of English at Nassau Community College. Her poetry and fiction have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She also has experience as a technical editor and writer and was an editorial assistant at Obsidian II Review.
Matt Rotando, Proofreader
Matt Rotando, an Instructor of English at Nassau Community College, attended Duke University (B.A), Brooklyn College (M.F.A.), and the University of Arizona (M.A.). He spent a year living in Sri Lanka as a Fulbright Fellow on a creative writing grant. He is the co-editor of the book Slippage: A Collection Of Sri-Lankan Writing in English (2001), and the author of a book of poems, The Comeback's Exoskeleton.
Randall Spinks, Proofreader
Randall Spinks, an instructor of English at Nassau Community College, received his Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1993. His primary teaching and research interests are in Composition and Rhetoric, Early American Literature, film, and popular culture. He has published in The Texas Review, Radical Teacher, Literature/Film Quarterly and The International Journal of the Humanities.
Izolda Maksym, Layout Editor
Izolda Maksym, is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Nassau Community College. She holds M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and B.F.A. in Computer Graphics from New York Institute of Technology. She works for numerous web and software design companies in New York City where she designs award winning web sites.