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Editorial Staff
Founding Editor
Andrei Guruianu
Poetry Editors
Quana Brock
Judy Baker Goldschmidt
Joshua Lewis
Fiction Editors
Elizabeth Cohen
Sally Crossley
Aaryn-Wynn Nardone
Creative Nonfiction Editors
Diana N. Bean
Libby Tucker
Michele Lesko
Visual Arts Editors
John Brunelli
Felix Eddy
Peg Johnston
Editorial Assistants
Erin Riddle
Alisa Strassner
Web Page Manager
Michele Lesko
Andrei Guruianu
Poetry Editors
Quana Brock
Judy Baker Goldschmidt
Joshua Lewis
Fiction Editors
Elizabeth Cohen
Sally Crossley
Aaryn-Wynn Nardone
Creative Nonfiction Editors
Diana N. Bean
Libby Tucker
Michele Lesko
Visual Arts Editors
John Brunelli
Felix Eddy
Peg Johnston
Editorial Assistants
Erin Riddle
Alisa Strassner
Web Page Manager
Michele Lesko
Staff Bios
Diana N. Bean has a BA in English, Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University, with a certificate in Women's Studies (1981). She is custom publications editor for the Press & Sun-Bulletin, writing for and editing magazines that target specific audiences. She also is a freelance writer. Bean's favorite short story writer is John Cheever. She currently lives in Brackney, Pa.
Quana Brock is currently an English instructor at Binghamton High School, and has been a poet since a much-maligned teacher forced her tenth grade class to write twenty-five original poems. It worked. Quana earned her BA at Cornell University (1994), her MFA at the University of Washington (1997), where she completed her creative thesis with Heather McHugh, and her MAT at Binghamton University (2005), where she experienced Dr. Martin Bidney’s final William Blake class. She is the former owner of Seattle’s Praise Pies (a fresh poem delivered with every order) and mother of Justina Honeybee, a determined eight-year-old chapter book writer.
John Brunelli earned a BFA in studio art and printmaking/drawing & art History from Binghamton University in 1997, and in 2003 acquired atelier training in classical drawing under Brandon Soloff (Soloff/Grimaldi Studios - Studio 126 in New York City.) That same year, John returned to Binghamton after working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) to become the Assistant Director and Curator of Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts. John is a classically trained fine artist specializing in drawing, printmaking, painting, and photography. His photography has taken him to places such as Vietnam, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. John has taught extensively throughout the region. His work is housed in many private collections in the United States and Canada. He is currently continuing his graduate studies in Art History at Binghamton University.
Elizabeth Cohen is the author of Impossible Furniture (Nightshade Press, 1995) and a forthcoming book of poetry, Mother Love. She's the co-author of The Silver Bear and the Scalpel (Bantam, 1998), a biography of the first Navajo woman surgeon, and the author of a memoir, The House on Beartown Road (Random House, 2003). The latter was selected as a New York Times “notable book of 2003” and a Library Journal “best of 2003.” Her poetry has appeared in many journals, magazines and anthologies including Walk on The Wild Side (Scribners, 1997), edited by Nicholas Christopher, and Our Mothers, Ourselves: Writers and Poets Celebrating Motherhood (Bergin & Garvey, 1996). Cohen, who holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, is currently at work on a book of essays about people who change their lives.
Sally Crossley has resided in Binghamton for most of her life and began teaching English at Binghamton High School three years ago. In her previous life, she worked for several years at the Bookbridge, a locally owned bookstore, and many years before that, at The Bookstore in downtown Binghamton. She has also worked volunteered her services for a number of agencies, including Literacy Volunteers. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from StonyBrook University, and her MA in creative writing at Binghamton University, where she studied with John Gardner, Larry Woiwode, and Ron Hansen. She has been writing short fiction and poetry for many years, and currently is assisting with the publication of Binghamton High School’s anthology of student writing.
Robin “Felix” Eddy graduated at the top of her class with a BFA from Alfred University. After college, she worked as a painter for the unique company MacKenzie-Childs, hand painting individual furniture pieces. Her work has been exhibited at art shows in California, Washington, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Recently, she has been immersed in the budding art scene in Binghamton, NY, showing at monthly First Friday events, and collaborating with local artists on new projects. Her website is www.felixeddy.com.
Judy Baker Goldschmidt earned a BA in Magazine Journalism from the S. I. Newhouse School of Communications and a BA in Psychology from Syracuse University. She also holds an MA in Creative Writing and English Literature from Binghamton University. She has published various articles and book reviews and has one book published, Rubies: A Memoir in Poems (Keshet Press, 2005). She lives in Binghamton, NY with her family and is at work on a memoir and a children’s book.
Andrei Guruianu is a Romanian-born author living in Vestal, NY. His first book of poetry, Days When I Saw the Horizon Bleed (FootHills Publishing), was published in 2006. His work has also appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry project (Column #12), Dogmatika, Confluence (an anthology of NY writers), and was a semifinalist for the 2007 Boston Fiction Festival. He has a BA in English from Binghamton University, a MS in Journalism from Iona College, and a MS in Education from Elmira College. Andrei has worked as a reporter and columnist for the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, and as a lecturer at Iona, Ithaca, and Broome Community colleges. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the English and creative writing program at Binghamton University in Fall 2007.
Peg Johnston is a founding member of Cooperative Gallery 213 in Binghamton. She has been taking photographs from an early age, and comes from a family of photographers where art critiques were part of Sunday dinners. Most recently, Johnston has been using photography as a component of art installations, creating a context for the photos. Her most recent exhibit, "Lost and Found: Images from our Industrial Past," was an exploration of the legacy of factory life with iconic images of buildings, assemblages of factory workers' lives, and poetry. A previous show, "Faithfully yours, Elisabeth Freeman, Suffragette, Civil Rights worker, Pacifist," recreated turn of the century activist Freeman's scrapbook. Other exhibits include "Details," “Diners: The Buildings and the People in them,” and "Arts of Africa." Johnston has also won various prizes for environmental subjects.
Michele Lesko received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she studied poetry with Renee Ashley & creative non-fiction with Laurie Stone. The ongoing debate about what can be labeled creative non-fiction or the “fourth genre” does not stop her from relishing this highly contemporary style of writing. Michele was an instructor at the Palm Beach Community College before moving “up north.” Her poems and short stories have been published in various journals such as Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, The Pedestal Magazine, Storyglossia, Lily Literary Review & Literary Mama.
Joshua Lewis is currently working on his PhD in English at Binghamton University. In his spare time, Josh takes time to read poets who range from the likes of Theodore Roethke and Adrienne Rich to John Ashbery and W.S. Merwin. He is in the middle of revising poems to send off for publication. He got his first poem published in the Paterson Literary Review. Also, he has recently become the events organizer for the Graduate Reading Series, a conglomeration of writers associated with Binghamton University who are dedicated to bringing graduate readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to venues on and off campus.
Aaryn-Wynn Nardone is a recent graduate of Binghamton University’s creative writing master’s program. Her short stories, “The Bedroom,” and “The Gumdrop Cabin,” were recently nominated for the Best New American Voices award, and her story, “Twelve,” was awarded Honorable Mention in the AWP contest. Aaryn moved to Broome County from Johnson, Vermont, where she worked with elementary school students as a one-on-one paraeducator. She now resides in Vestal, NY, with her two ferrets, Bentley and Austin.
Erin Riddle grew up on a dairy farm in Salamanca, NY, a small town nestled in the rolling green hills of Western New York. She received her B.A. from Ithaca College in German Language & Literature, with minors in Spanish Language and Literature and Art History, in 1998. From 1998-2005 she worked for Snow Lion Publications, a book publisher and retailer in Ithaca, NY, related to Tibetan Buddhism and Culture. She completed her M.A. in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University in May 2007, where she is currently working on her PhD in Translation Studies.
Libby Tucker is a member of the English Department at Binghamton University. Her publications in folklore include Campus Legends (2005) and Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses (2007). She has published creative non-fiction in Paterson Literary Review and in anthologies; she has also published a few poems. Reading the work of creative writers is one of her greatest delights.
