Editorial Staff
Jessica Fox-Wilson came to poetry in the 11th grade, when she first heard Langston Hughes’ poem, “Theme for English B.” Since then, she dedicated her life to reading, writing and studying poetry. Her highlights include earning an MFA, regular articles about literature published in Uptown Neighborhood News and Poetic Monthly, the founding of an online literary journal, Asphalt Sky, and writing her blog, 9 to 5 Poet . Her lowlights include four years of working retail to support her poetry writing, three boxes of half-finished journals buried in her garage, an addiction to buying good pens, and living without cable TV.
Jo Hemmant has a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature and a Masters in Women Studies (with a thesis on flight and fancy in the novels of Toni Morrison). She worked for many years as a journalist, editor and in publishing management before leaving to start a family. Her literary interests span women’s writing, the contemporary novel, early 20th century writers, literary criticism and poetry. She is currently involved with various writing projects.
Kate Sloan Fiffer is a writer and performer living in Boulder, Colorado. She holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in Translation from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she served as Managing Editor and Translation Editor for Bombay Gin Literary Journal. She is a member of Lamp Mask and Puppet Theater, and is a co-founder of Wednesday Machine Arts Collective. Her reading interests are ever-changing, but currently include experimental fiction and contemporary Italian poetry.
