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Rick Rofihe Publisher & Editor-In-Chief  
[ rrofihe@yahoo.com ]
Rick Rofihe is the author of Father Must, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Editor: Jonathan Galassi; Agent: Gail Hochman). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City, Unsaid, Swink, and on fictionaut.com, slushpilemag.com and epiphanyzine.com. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, SPY, and on mrbellersneighborhood.com. A recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, he has taught writing at Columbia University, and currently teaches privately in New York City. He is a member of PEN; an advisor to the Vilcek Foundation for their 2011 prizes in the field of literature; and, for the seventh year, the judge of the annual RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest for Open City magazine at opencity.org/rrofihe.

June Eding Senior Editor
June Eding studied poetry with Andrew Carrigan, and fiction with Charles Baxter at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a BFA in Printmaking. She has written several children's books, including Snow Magic, and is the creator and author of Napoleon Dynamite Sketchbook. She has worked at major publishing houses in New York City, and is currently a freelance book editor.

Carolyn Wilsey Managing Editor
Carolyn Wilsey teaches writing privately and at colleges in New York City, in addition to working as a freelance magazine writer. She's a graduate of Emerson College's MFA program where she focused on short fiction. Her book reviews have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine and Publishers Weekly, and she has evaluated stories for Esquire, Swink, Woman's Day, Open City's RRofihe Trophy, and the Vilcek Foundation's 2011 Literature Prize.

Catherine Curan Associate Publisher
Catherine Curan is a journalist and fiction-writer based in New York City. She has covered business, fashion and real estate for the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, Newsday, WWD, Worth, The Real Deal and Condé Nast Portfolio.com. In 2004, she won the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for a Crain’s special report on the hip-hop economy. She has published creative writing in Fiction, Many Mountains Moving, the SalonZine and Sleet Magazine and has work forthcoming in The Reader and Ozone Park. She has taught English in Athens, Greece and worked as a writing coach at Yale School of Management. She is a volunteer mentor with non-profit organization Girls Write Now.

Wayne Conti Contributing Editor
Wayne Conti's short stories appear on Pindeldyboz.com and anderbo.com, and in Open City. He lives in New York City.

Charity Burns Poetry Editor
Charity Burns earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Madison Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and West Branch. Charity’s blog is The Beauty Works Project. She lives in New York City.

Stacy Muszynski "fact" & Features Editor
Stacy Muszynski graduated with her MFA from Texas State University, where she was schooled by some of her favorite pros, including Tim O’Brien and Denis Johnson. She is web editor for American Short Fiction, and co-curates & co-hosts the award-winning literary series Five Things Austin. She is at work on a collection of short stories and a book of Italian-to-English poetry translations. Find her reviews, interviews and fiction the new-fangled way, by googling.

Elizabeth Skoski Associate Editor
Elizabeth Skoski is currently pursuing an MA in English from City College of New York. She also interns at Open City Magazine & Books. She holds an MA in English Education from Columbia University Teachers College and a BA in English from SUNY Binghamton.

Claire Willett Associate Editor
Claire Willett is a senior at NYU's Gallatin School of Independent Study, where she studies regionalism and new media. Currently the web intern for Allure, she's also interned and written pieces for the New York Post's Page Six Magazine, and for Conde Nast Traveler, and has spent a summer as co-editor of Guest of a Guest's Hamptons site. She lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

Edward Mullany Associate Editor
Edward Mullany lives in New York with his wife, Anjali. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Tampa Review, Barn Owl Review, Hobart, Wigleaf, Johnny America, and Beeswax.

Irina Zhorov Associate Editor
Irina Zhorov, first from Uzbekistan, then Philadelphia, and now, New York, has crossed international borders with a darkroom and a typewriter (though not simultaneously.) She has studied History of Latin America and Geology at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Buenos Aires. She currently works as a freelance writer and photographer.

Kristen O'Toole Associate Editor
Kristen O'Toole recently completed her MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. Her fiction has appeared in Fogged Clarity, Gigantic, and Flatmancrooked's Anthology of Great New Writing Done During an Economic Depression. She is currently working on a young adult novel. She also has a short story on anderbo.com.

Carolyn Silveira Associate Editor
Carolyn Silveira currently works at the Freelancers Union in Brooklyn. She studied literature and creative writing at the University of Chicago and has worked in publishing and public radio.

Aziz Friedrich Associate Editor
Aziz Friedrich is a graduate of The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and of New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied "Writing the Fragment" and "The Letter as Literature" with Professor Victoria Blythe.

Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell Associate Editor (West Coast)
Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell has contributed articles and reviews to Publishers Weekly, Variety, New York Magazine online, New York Theater News and Citysearch.com. She has taught at Fordham University and the Writing Center at Yeshiva University. She has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She grew up in Woodstock, New York.

T.K. Danovich Associate Editor
Tove Danovich currently attends The New School in New York. She received a Silver Award in 2008 from Scholastic for her general portfolio in addition to winning Leeland, Michigan's inaugural Stage Turner contest and Indiana-Purdue's '08 Poetry contest. In addition, she has a short story on slushpilemag.com and a "fact" on anderbo.com.

Rowland Miller Associate Editor
Rowland Miller is a writer, musician and photographer, whose work can be found in Anderbo’s Photography section. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and directs Open City Magazine’s annual summer reading series, Park Lit.

Jason Hinkley Associate Editor
Jason Hinkley received a B.A. in English from SUNY New Paltz. A freelance writer and critic living in New York City, he reviews, somewhat regularly, for NewPages.com—a online resource for independent presses and publishers.

Melody Feldman Associate Editor
Melody Feldman is an MFA student at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she is the Assistant Editor of The Literary Review. Her short story "Pie" won the 2008 Fulton Prize for Fiction from The Adirondack Review. She also has had a story published in 34th Parallel.

Jennifer Doerr Director of Online Publicity and Outreach
Jennifer Doerr studied fiction with Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser and Kathryn Davis and has contributed pieces to The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Self, Shape, The New Haven Advocate, Publishers Weekly, Mediabistro.com, Short Story magazine, and more. She currently works as a Publicity Manager in a major literary publishing house in New York City and is working on a collection of short stories.

Emma Stockman 2011 Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest Assistant
Emma Stockman is currently a sophomore studying to receive her BA in English at New York University. She is also studying Creative Writing in the College of Arts and Sciences at NYU, and has studied under the tutelage of Jonathan Safran Foer. She currently lives in Mantattan's West Village.

Editors at Large:

Jessica Cary
Jessica Cary is a freelance writer, editor and reporter. Her work has appeared in Self and The Linewaiters Gazette. With a background in holistic nutrition and yoga, her non-fiction focuses on health and wellness issues. She is a graduate of Hollins University where she studied creative writing under Cathryn Hankla, Adrian Blevins and Jeanne Larsen. She studied short story writing with Deborah Emin in NYC.

Sasha Graybosch
Sasha Graybosch holds a B.A. in English: Creative Writing from the University of Kansas, where she edited the art and literature journal Kiosk, and studied fiction writing with David Ohle and Deb Olin Unferth. She has worked in university writing centers as a writing consultant for the past three years, and is currently providing her services to the students of the Fashion Institute of Technology. She resides in New York City, writes short fiction, dabbles in publishing and poetry, and is looking for a cat.

Amanda Shank
Amanda Shank holds a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College, where she co-created and edited Thread, Emerson's first script anthology. With a background in playwriting, including an invitation to perform at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, she also writes for This Recording and currently works for Pomegranate Arts, a music and performing arts production company. Amanda lives in New York City.

Jennifer Hanks
Jennifer Hanks recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. Jennifer just finished an internship with Seven Stories Press and currently works at Lush where she sells expensive handmade soap. She also writes reviews for Growler, an online poetry review site. Jennifer enjoys writing poetry about sunken ships and is torn between pursuing a career in publishing or marine biology.

Leslie Newton
Leslie Newton is a recent graduate from Huntington University, holding her B.A. in English. Leslie currently works as an intern for FinePrint Literary Management in New York City, a book agency specializing in YA, fantasy, science fiction, spirituality, and non-fiction novels. Leslie has presented essays on Virgina Woolf at Sigma Tau Delta conferences and plans to continue her study with literature in graduate school in Fall 2009.

Darren Miller
Darren Miller is a student at The George Washington University, majoring in Dramatic Literature, and minoring in Theater and Creative Writing. Darren leads, writes and performs with various comedy groups, and produces and writes for beast.Films. He is also a co-founder and contributing editor of The Colonialist, a blog concerning student life at The George Washington University, as well as Find He-Man, a blog concerning the pursuit of a "real-life superhero" in Manhattan.

Julia Harbo
Julia Harbo studies creative writing at Salisbury University on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She recently traveled to India and has been working on writing about her experiences there, amongst other things. She lives just outside of New York.

Caroline Batten
Caroline Batten is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing MFA program, where she also taught undergraduate fiction. She writes short stories, mostly set in Maruyama, Japan, where she lived for three years. She is also currently working on a novel. She was a finalist in the Writers at Work Fellowship Competition, judged by Steve Almond, and a winner of a Fellowship Position at Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, judged by Margaret Atwood. Caroline was Anderbo's second Managing Editor.

Chalcey Wilding
Chalcey Wilding is a native of New York and a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she pursued poetry in theory and practice. She was 2007 Anderbo Poetry Prize Contest Assistant.

Julia Carrie Wong
Julia Wong has been Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate.

Sophie McManus
Sophie McManus lives in Brooklyn and has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches writing and is currently finishing her first novel.

Catherine Foulkrod
Catherine Foulkrod studied hypertext fiction with Robert Coover, and cinematic literature with Carole Maso at Brown University, where she received a BA in Art Semiotics and Creative Writing. She currently lives in Lower Manhattan's Little Italy.

Phoebe Bronstein
Phoebe Bronstein has a B.A. in English Literature and History from UCLA in sunny California.