Ira Sukrungruang

Founding Editor Ira Sukrungruang is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, a memoir, and co-editor of the fat books What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. His favorite candy is anything that has sour-sucking power and unhinges his jaw because of extreme gumminess.

Katherine Riegel

Founding Editor Katherine Riegel—who also goes by Katie—got her MFA from an institution in the Midwest, has published poems and essays in some cool places edited by awesome people, and believes that heaven is made of chocolate. Castaway (FutureCycle Press, 2010) is her first book of poetry.

K.C. Wolfe

Founding Editor K.C. Wolfe earned his MFA at an institution in the Midwest, after considerable layovers in the western parts of these United States. He currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY, birthplace of the 24 second shot clock, the salt potato, and the loafer. His favorite sandwich at the Brooklyn Pickle is the Brooklyn Pickle Special.

Gloria Muñoz

Gloria is an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida and recently received the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize and the Bettye Newman Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in Dark Phrases, The Brooklyn Review and The Sarah Lawrence Review.Gloria enjoys traveling, cozy thunderstorm tea and making things with her hands.

Claire Stephens

Claire is a creative writing student at the University of South Florida. She likes gummy bears, science fiction, and english breakfast tea, and doesn't care for vinyl. In the case that reincarnation is the upshot, she'd like to come back as a redwood, and failing that, a basset hound. Her poetry and graphic poetry is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle.

Zachary Lundgren

Zachary Lundgren is a MFA student at USF, and on the down low, an aspiring musician. He likes to walk around with his headphones on and gets distracted by little things like birds and commas. He is also known to break cell phones and hearts, in that order.

Ruth Awad

Ruth Awad spends most of her time in the company of her two Pomeranians who are the queens of her heart. In addition to being a tattoo artist, she also teaches and works on her MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Her favorite sweet treat is vegan red velvet cake, but in a pinch, she'll happily settle for a handful of (dark) chocolate chips.

Melissa Carroll

Melissa dreams of swimming in a vat of chocolate pudding with a giant graham cracker for a raft, but will settle for cookies and beer any day. She teaches yoga and is currently in the MFA program at University of South Florida, where she is busy being enamored with words and sunlight.

Enaam Alnaggar

Enaam enjoys critiquing junk mail from a design perspective. When she’s not ranting about hideous color schemes and bad typography, she’s writing, snacking, or watching anime or Asian dramas. She prefers her desserts to be aesthetically pleasing.

Jim Miller

Jim loves to read, loves to write, but yet has few kind words for arithmetic. He teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at various institutions of learning and in his free time…uhm…uh…in his free time?

Jared White

Jared was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and, though he has resided in various regions around the country, his poems are often informed by the natural world there. When Jared isn't writing, reading, or teaching poetry, he enjoys tennis, basketball, and playing card games with his wife. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida and attends the University of South Florida as a MFA student in poetry.

Kirsten Holt

Kirsten Holt is a first-year graduate student studying poetry at the University of Central Florida. Her chapbook "Overwintered" was the winner of the 2010 Annual Chapbook Contest and is available from YellowJacketPress.org. She is a reader/editor for The Florida Review. Outside of school, she can be found swing dancing or knitting, if not pretending to be Batman. She also enjoys video games, painting, D&D, and the Oxford Comma. Kirsten will be found most ripe in winter, and though she has been a Florida resident her whole life, still finds these summers incorrigible. She drinks copious amounts of tea to manage.

Brittney Buckley

Brittney has a BA in creative writing, an unhealthy penchant for the color teal, and two very spoiled cats. She is a pop culture junkie and a connoisseur of Chicago pizza. When she's not writing poetry or applying to grad schools, she's finally getting around to reading those hundreds of books she keeps collecting.