MASTHEAD
 OLIVER BENDORF (Editor-In-Chief) is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he holds the Martha Meier-Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Anti–, The Journal, Quarterly West, Fugue, and Drunken Boat, among others. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow. |
 SARAH CROSSLAND (Managing Editor/Webmaster) was invited to read her poetry at the Library of Congress in March 2011. She plays the harp. |
 JESSE DAMIANI (Outreach/Reviews Editor) is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the recipient of the John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. His work has appeared or will appear in Fourteen Hills, the minnesota review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, and The Southeast Review, among others. |
 MARIAN PALAIA (Prose Editor) is in her second year as an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was nominated in 2010 for an AWP Intro award; is the recipient of a Seattle Arts Council Individual Artists Award; won first place in Red Sky Poetry Society's open reading competition; has published stories in Passages North, River Oak Review, Ergo, and elsewhere; has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's fiction contests; and has received scholarships to attend both the Napa and Squaw Valley Writers' conferences. Marian also holds a rather ancient MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is currently at work on a novel in stories and a collection of narrative essays. |
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 HANNAH OBERMAN-BREINDEL (Poetry Editor) has coached track, walked dogs for a broadway producer, edited comics at Pantheon books, volunteered on an organic farm, and sung jazz standards at various venues. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various online and print publications including The Comstock Review, Stirring, Crab Creek Review, and Prick of the Spindle. |
 LYDIA CONKLIN (Comics Editor) is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Astraea Foundation and Harvard University. Her fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, New Letters, The New Orleans Review and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |
 YUKO SAKATA (Production Editor) is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A recipient of the August Dereleth Prize and a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, she writes fiction and is also a dancer and translator. |
 LAURA EVE ENGEL (Senior Editor) is the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, LIT, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Cream City Review and elsewhere. [Spoiler Alert], a chapbook she co-authored, is forthcoming from The Collagist/Dzanc Books. |
 NICOLE CULLEN (Senior Editor) was raised in Salmon, Idaho. She earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas–Austin, where she was the Fiction Editor of Bat City Review. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and The Dublin Review. Currently, she is the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |
 REBECCA HAZELTON (Senior Editor) attended the University of Notre Dame for her MFA in poetry, and recently completed her PhD at Florida State University. She recently completed a year as the Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Institute, and currently teaches Creative Writing at Beloit College. She has been published or forthcoming in AGNI, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and others. |
 JOSH KALSCHEUR's (Senior Editor) poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Cincinnati Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, andNotre Dame Review among others. His work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is originally from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and now resides in Madison. |
READERS & REVIEWERS | Mark Cayanan, Vanessa Merina, and Meghan O'Gieblyn ADVISORY BOARD: Quan Barry, Brittany Cavallaro, Louisa Diodato, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Amaud Johnson, Ron Kuka, Judith Claire Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Jacques Rancourt, Nancy Reddy, and Ronald Wallace |
ZACCARIA FULTON (Poetry Editor) was born and raised in Virginia. Over the years he has worked as a golf cart attendant, demolition worker, painter, carpenter, substitute teacher, lab technician, soil compaction tester, driller, sandwich maker, glass cutter, building master, and roller coaster expert. His poetry has appeared in ENNUI magazine and The Turtle Review. Linda Bierds has said of his work: "I really think these are poems." He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin.