Authors

Lisa Jarnot is the author of several books of poems. She lives in Queens and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ. 

Lisa Simmons is the author of the novella, Sugar Weather, and has published poetry in Local Express (AALR), Rattapallax, Minetta Review, and other publications. She has read her work at the New School, Bard College, Barnard College, CUNY Graduate Center, and the Nuyorican Poets Café, and has read her poetry at the KGB Bar. She is the former co...

Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Miss New York Has Everything (Warner/Hatchette 2006) and a poetry collection, The Regulars (Liquid Paper Press 2001). Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tears in the Fence (U.K.) and...

Lorna Owen is a writer, editor, and author of the popular blog Mouse Interrupted. Previously she was Senior Editor for Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. She received an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, studied studio arts and art history, and served a year's stint managing the workshop of an Italian artist in New York...

Luke Pearson is a soon-to-graduate illustration student and comics artist from the UK. He has been writing and drawing his own comics seriously for about a year and intends to continue doing so alongside his illustration career.

Lynne Sachs makes films and writes poems that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Between 1994 and 2006, she produced five essay films that took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel, Italy, and Germany — sites affected by international war — where she looked at the space between a community...

M.C. Mah is a book critic and novelist with work in Full Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Rumpus. He lives in Brooklyn.

Madeline Cash is the editor of Forever Literary Magazine. 

Madeline McFarland is a writer and a professor of creative writing at New York University.

Maggie Beauvais is a freelance writer and Assistant Literary Events Editor for Slice Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, is good with babies, and takes unreasonably long walks.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is one of the rare American writers who has received a visa to visit North Korea, which she did in 2009. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, and The Nation. She teaches writing at Columbia and Brown University, and her novel is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in 2015.

Marina Read Weiss studied English and creative writing at Amherst College, and lives in Brooklyn. Her poetry and criticism can be found or are forthcoming in 34th Parallel, Boston Review, Brink Magazine, Caper Literary Journal, Clapboard House, Explosion-Proof*, and elsewhere. She received a Fulbright in 2008.

Marshall Mallicoat is a poet from the Kansas River valley. Their poems have appeared in Queen Mob's Teahouse, NY Tyrant, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Marshall lives in Chicago where they work with computers. You can find them online at marshallmallicoat.com

Martha Silano is the author of four poetry collections, including The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception and Reckless Lovely, both from Saturnalia Books. Her work has also appeared in Paris Review, North American Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Best American Poetry 2009, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor...

Mary Durocher is a poet and writer. She’s a senior at Marymount Manhattan College, where she studies Creative Writing and Journalism. Her work has appeared in The Carson Review, Better Than Starbucks Literary Magazine, and Laid Off NYC. She currently resides in New York and she can usually be found in a coffee shop or park.