Editors
Nick Martens
Nick Martens received a traditional American education. His curriculum comprised old Simpsons reruns, violent videogames, and obscure websites of dubious quality. He feels perfectly at home in the modern world.
Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen’s only marketable skill is an above-average knowledge of European geography. He has been useless since the introduction of the atlas in 1477. Reach him by email or follow his Twitter account.
Assistant Editor
Darryl Campbell
Darryl Campbell once got called “an elitist young author” by John Stossel after writing this. Nevertheless, he managed to take it in stride.
Writers
Jordan Barber
Jordan Barber is proud that the internet allows him to criticize, admonish, and irritate people from his own living room. And though this immense power only comes to the few, he promises to wield his hammer of judgment with a standoffish, thoughtful outlook.
Caitlin Boersma
Caitlin Boersma is studying political science and English, but spends most of her time analyzing pop culture. Her premise for a new reality TV show, Killing Andy Milonakis, has yet to be picked up by VH1. She is notorious for spending a week’s wages on a ticket to see Morrissey live.
Locke McKenzie
Locke McKenzie is an English graduate from the University of Puget Sound. Currently, he is on a Fulbright scholarship in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an English teaching assistant at a local school. In his free time, Locke continues to push forward with his pursuit of a penniless writing career.
Jeff Merrion
While he excels in most other areas, Jeff Merrion’s spatial logic falls within the lower third percentile of United States citizens. He is a Religious Studies major and, as such, has a long life of administrative assistantship awaiting him. To potential employers: Jeff makes a mean cup of coffee.
Contributing Writers
Daniel Adler
In late 2008, Daniel Adler traveled between South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, China, and Vietnam to study the effectiveness of Sister City relationships. As he left America, he was told that “Sister Cities don’t do anything,” but having traded shots of ginseng liquor with the mayor of Gunsan, South Korea, he believes he has disproved that theory. Images from Daniel’s travels can be viewed at his personal photography website, Adlerography.
Whitney Carpenter
Whitney Carpenter is an English graduate of the University of California at Davis, where her crowning achievement was never wearing her overpriced university sweatshirt on campus grounds. She now spends her time starting great cubicle conversations with questions like “Which soda do you think is the classiest?” and venting trivialities over the internet.
Colin Cronin
Colin Cronin originally contemplated a career as a concert pianist and studied Music Performance at the University of Puget Sound. Realizing his heart belonged not to the stage but rather to student debt, Colin returned for a fifth year and acquired an only slightly more relevant major in Politics & Government. You can experience more of such brilliance at his blog, Tabris’ Corner.
Jack Eichorst
Jack Eichorst is currently a student of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is actively involved in student government, and is always searching for any other opportunities to be labeled as “ineffective” and “self-aggrandizing.” In his free time, he is mostly ineffective and self-aggrandizing.
Josh Fischel
Josh Fischel lives near Boston and used to teach English. He has written for several print and web publications, including The Believer and Monkeybicycle.
Alexa Fritzsche
Alexa Fritzsche can often be found with her head buried in a biology textbook or a Times crossword.
Ralph Gamelli
Ralph Gamelli is of average height, weight, and intelligence, and requires the average amount of time to grow a respectable mustache. His ability to write an interesting bio, however, is far below average.
Drew Gemmer
Drew Gemmer is a psychology graduate from the University of Puget Sound. He resides in the rose-colored city of Portland, Oregon, where he spends time serving food to rich people and acting as an assistant editor of The St. Johns Sentinel.
Chris George
Chris George is pursuing his graduate studies in American Government at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Jonathan Gourlay
Jonathan Gourlay is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he first became fascinated with raising pigs. Turns out that raising pigs is difficult work, not suited to poets. He is now studying Linguistics in Chicago after living eleven years on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia.
Emily Guerin
Emily Guerin works as an environmental educator and newbie journalist in Maine, where she actively works to disprove the stigma that all people from Massachusetts are “Massholes.” When she leaves New England, she gravitates towards Latin America or the American West.
Hudson Hongo
Hudson Hongo lives in the Pacific Northwest, and it will stay that way if he can help it. He has written for McSweeney’s and The Morning News. Hudson maintains a web presence here.
Tim Lehman
Tim Lehman is a graduate of Macalester College. In his spare time, he attempts to relive the four months he spent studying in Amsterdam by drinking Grolsch and eating sub-standard Minnesota falafel. He may well be missing the point.
Bowman Leigh
Bowman Leigh hails from Portland, OR but is currently in Australia studying sustainability. Talents include a knack for public embarrassment, fig-tree climbing, and obsessive cleaning, but her passion is in perfecting “bush-dance” moves.
Brandon Lueken
Brandon Lueken is a graduate from the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. He has done many things, including editing his college newspaper, writing and directing a short play, angering large groups of people en masse, and acting as both the good and the bad shoulder angel. One day, Brandon hopes to give people their dreams, but whether this is literal or figurative, no one knows.
Zachary Martin
Zachary Martin is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. His fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Fourth Genre, Lumina, Washington Square, Zaum, The Southeast Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He teaches at the College of Staten Island and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Andrew McGill
Andrew McGill is a journalism student at Penn State. On the job, he’s interviewed accused murderers about their shoe preferences and published the phrase “a pilferer’s tickle.” Google it!
Whitney Medved
Whitney Medved is currently living in the hills of Central Slovakia on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship grant, “teaching some English and hanging out with old people.” Word on the street is students refer to her as “the Hurricane.”
Greg Merrell
Greg Merrell enjoys music equivalent to post-modern art, believes the spoon is a superior eating utensil to the fork, and believes the analog synthesizer is the song of god. He currently plays in the bands $2,000 Puma and Mellowtron and the Harp.
Carrie Miltenberger
Carrie Miltenberger is currently a senior at the University of Puget Sound majoring in Creative Writing. After living abroad for a year, she is struggling with regular life in America and is trying to figure out a way to live and work in the EU.
Dan Minch
Dan Minch reinforces his existence as a Theology and Classical Studies major at Villanova University with an epic addiction to Fair Trade coffee. His thinking is split between dead languages and bits of Thai picked up from being the only white person at an Asian restaurant. He hopes to one day be paid to drink coffee and read the Bible.
Chloe Novak
A double major in philosophy and political theory, Chloe Novak spends much of her free time paralyzed by existential terror. She also enjoys baking cobblers and reading about neuroscience and astrophysics, grasping roughly 30% through conjecture and a cursory knowledge of Latin and Greek roots.
Adam Restad
Adam Restad is 22, bi-curious, and has had poems and short stories published in two editions of the crappiest literary magazine at the University of Puget Sound.
Alice Stanley
Alice Stanley is an English major and a theatre minor at Principia College in the bustling metropolis of Elsah, Illinois. She digs improv comedy and is strangely unbeatable at Pac-Man.
Michelle Stoler
Michelle Stoler lives in Chile, where she spends most of her time trying not to look like a gringa. She enjoys making up false identities to strangers and has an uncanny ability to guess what time it is.
Lucinda Stroud
Lucinda Stroud is a creative writing major and holds the firm belief that it is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
David Tveite
David C. Tveite, Esq. is an English and history student at the University of Puget Sound. His coming of age was badly stunted by Hollywood fame when he appeared at age fourteen on the hit CBS series Survivor: The Moon. He still considers himself a celebrity, and it’s beginning to make his family and friends sad.
Filmmakers
Emmett Kerr-Perkinson
Emmett Kerr-Perkinson is a filmmaker living in Austin, Texas. You can find more of his work on his website or follow him on Twitter.