Mariela Griffor

Publisher

     A native of Chile, Griffor was forced to flee the regime of Augusto Pinochet after the murder of her fiancé by agents of the dictator and threats against her own life. She spent 12 years in Sweden, where she met her husband, Edward Griffor, a native Detroiter and world-renowned mathematician. In 1998 the couple moved to Grosse Pointe Park, where they live with their two daughters.Griffor earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and a certificate in Montessori education, and is completing a master's degree in Media Studies at Wayne State University.She is a co-founder of the Detroit Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University, where she also served as Detroit Urban Woman Writer in Residence in 2003. She is curator of the Poets Follies reading series at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association. She is the author of Exiliana.

Rebecca Brown

Fiction Editor

      Rebecca Brown is very productive. Since beginning her career as a professional writer in the mid '80s, she has published 10 books of prose, with the 11th, The Last Time I Saw You, to be published this November by San Francisco's City Lights. The Gifts of the Body is her most famous work—it has been translated into seven languages and won several awards. Her most recent book, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, which describes the passing of her mother, was published in the U.S. by the University of Wisconsin Press and in the UK by Granta. In 2001, Chicago's About Face Theater turned her early book The Terrible Girls into a play, and Seattle's New City Theater is about to premiere her original two-act play, The Toaster.

     

Sean Tai

Art Director

     Sean Tai has been working as a typesetter for Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart for the last ten years. He has also done freelance book design for Marick Press, The Key Publishing, Luna Publications and others. He was one of the founding editors of Pagitica in Toronto magazine from 1999-2003. Sean grew up in Fredericton, N.B. and now lives in Toronto, Canada.

Elizabeth Myhr

Managing Editor

     Elizabeth Myhr has published work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Kimera, Stringtown, Knock, The Armchair Classicist, Pontoon, and others, and currently serves as poetry editor for The Raven Chronicles and as a Managing Editor for Marick Press of Detroit, Michigan. She is enrolled in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband and son.