Charles Deemer (Editor) writes plays, screenplays and fiction. He is a three-time finalist for the Oregon Book Award, most recently for Seven Plays (2001). He's considered a pioneer in hyperdrama, a career culminating with the electronic publication of The Seagull Hyperdrama, an expansion and interpretation of the Chekhov play. Deemer teaches screenwriting at Portland State University and his screenplay Earthly Desires is currently optioned. [more]
Jeremiah Rickert (Asst. Editor) still lives in Newberg, Oregon, the town he was born in. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and is currently the series editor for Night Shade Books' "Lost Wellman" anthology series.
Primus St. John (Poetry Editor) is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Communion: Poems, 1976-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999), which won the Western States Book Award and Dreamer (1990), which received the 1990 Hazel Hall Award for Poetry. He is editor of the anthologies From Here We Speak(1993) and Zero Makes Me Hungry (1976). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has taught writing and literature at Portland State University for almost 30 years. [more]
Michael McGregor (Creative Nonfiction Editor) holds an MFA from Columbia
University and has served as editor-in-chief of three magazines, including
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. His writing has appeared in Poets &
Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Seattle Review, StoryQuarterly, South
Dakota Review, American Theatre and The Dictionary of Literary Biography and
earned both the Daniel Curley Award and an Illinois Arts Council grant. He
teaches nonfiction writing at Portland State University.
Joshua D. Weber (Fiction Editor) has an MFA in Fiction from Oregon State University. He taught writing at Oregon State and Phoenix Community College and worked with at-risk youth in New York. His short fiction has appeared in Inkpot: A Literary Journal.
John D. Nugent (Music Editor) is the composer of the operas Dark Mission and Varmints, as well as several musicals and a large amount of orchestral music. His piano
music has been published in anthologies for music teachers. He studied at
the University of Charleston (WV). He is a member of the American Composers
Forum. [more]
Harriet Levi (Art Editor) paints in acrylic and multi media. She taught for 21 years at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, where she expanded Women's Studies into a Certificate Program. She is active in the Portland chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art. She began her artistic career as a costume designer in the Boston area and was the designer for the Charles Playhouse.