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Editor of Not Just Air

Parris Garnier worked as a writer and editor in business consulting for 20 years. His writing can be found in numerous journals, including online at Stirring, Story Bytes, Mindmills, Rogue Scholars, and Exquisite Corpse, is frequently featured at reading venues in Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, N.Y., and has guest edited at Stirring. He has published three chapbooks, “Yard Sale,” “The Long And Short Of It,” and “Through A Glass Head Darkly,” and is writing a novel based on the legend of the steel driver, John Henry. With Christina Wos Donnelly, he is creator and editor of Not Just Air. He writes under a grey fedora on his balcony in southwest Washington, watching the Odyssey on the Potomac downstream from Great Falls.

	Founder and Editor of Stirring: A Literary Collection Erin Elizabeth Smith is the author of the book The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press 2008) and is currently a PhD candidate at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Florida Review, Third Coast, Crab Orchard, Natural Bridge, West Branch, The Pinch, Rhino, and Willow Springs among others. She is the managing editor of Stirring and the Best of the Net anthology.
	Editor of Wicked Alice Kristy Bowen Kristy Bowen lives in Chicago, where she also runs dancing girl press, devoted to publishing chapbooks by women authors. She is the author of the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) and feign (New Michigan Press, 2007), as well as in the bird museum, forthcoming from Dusie Press later this year. Her work has appeared in Swink, Cranky, Rhino, Stirring, Caffeine Destiny, Diagram and others. In addition to poetry, she occasionally makes vague attempts at collage/book arts and is obsessed with with victoriana, carnivals/sideshows, horror films, Joseph Cornell, archives, old scientific & botanical illustrations, postcards, and all things paper.
	Editor of Not Just Air Parris Garnier worked as a writer and editor in business consulting for 20 years. His writing can be found in numerous journals, including online at Stirring, Story Bytes, Mindmills, Rogue Scholars, and Exquisite Corpse, is frequently featured at reading venues in Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, N.Y., and has guest edited at Stirring. He has published three chapbooks, “Yard Sale,” “The Long And Short Of It,” and “Through A Glass Head Darkly,” and is writing a novel based on the legend of the steel driver, John Henry. With Christina Wos Donnelly, he is creator and editor of Not Just Air. He writes under a grey fedora on his balcony in southwest Washington, watching the Odyssey on the Potomac downstream from Great Falls.
	Editor of Not Just Air Christina Woś Donnelly has lived on two rivers: the Niagara and the Potomac. She’s worked as a writer and copyeditor. Since her emergence from the poetry closet, her poems have appeared in over a dozen print and online publications, including Lilliput Review, Slipstream, Stirring and The 2 River View, as well as six anthologies, most recently Susan B & Me (Big Kids Publishing). A “sucker for the instant gratification of a live reading”, she’s been featured at Buffalo, Baltimore and Washington, DC venues including the Library of Congress. She was an Artvoice Artist of the Week, twice guest-edited Stirring, and, with Parris Garnier, is Founding Co-editor of Not Just Air. Her 2002 chapbook, Venus Afflicted, was revised in 2005.
	Editor of 21Stars Review Letitia Trent is a 2004 Bucknell Younger Poet's Seminar fellow and a current MFA candidate at Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Shampoo, 42opus, Pinstripe Fedora, Stirring, and other small literary journals. Her poem "Study of Absences" won third place in WebDelSol's IPBC "Poem of the Year" competition in 2003. Letitia's photography has been featured in Circle Magazine and Stirring.
	Editor of 21Stars Review Christopher Wells grew up in rural Michigan and studied classics at Kalamazoo College, Hope College (where he received a B.A.), and the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a computer technician, library clerk, guitar instructor, tutor, janitor, and grader of green beans. His work has been published in DIAGRAM, 5_trope, Eucalyptus and elsewhere. Since 2000, he has lived in central Ohio with his wife and animals.
	Editor of Small Town Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco, where he swoons regularly at the immense beauty of the place and publishes the poetry magazine, small town. His chapbook/ long poem, ghost spiders &dogs, can be found online at Detumescence Press (detumescence.com). Other poetry has appeared in Bombay Gin, New American Writing, Drill, commonweal, Matter, Boog City, BOTH BOTH, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Transfer, Bimbo Gun, and the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press).
	Editor of Blaze Tania Rochelle holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in several print magazines, including New York Quarterly, Iris, and Snake Nation Review, as well as in online journals such as Blue Moon Review, The Drunken Boat, Three Candles, and Stirring. Her work has been included in the anthologies, We Used to be Wives, edited by Jane Butkin Roth, and Split Verse, edited by Meg Campbell and William Duke. She teaches writing at Portfolio Center, in Atlanta, and lives in Marietta, Georgia, with her blended family -- husband, three daughters and a son, a Chihuahua, a Jack Russell, a Lab-Chow, and a Guinea pig. Every time she starts to get a grip on her life, she adds another member.
	Editor of Samsara Quarterly Sharon Shahan once lived in an avocado green Swinger in Los Padres National Forest, she now resides inside a 1900 square foot box on the east coast of Maryland, kissing Delaware and all roads in between. She has a mad crush on Regie Cabico, May Swenson and the music of Patti Smith and the Cocteau Twins. Her poetry appears infrequently but can be found at Pedestal Magazine, Poet's Canvas, and Blue Fifth Review.
	Editor of supralurid nicoLe sativa kurlish never knows what to say about herself. She grew up mostly in central New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, with a brief stint during fourth grade in Florida. Now, she lives in a tiny two bedroom, spiders on our walls, barely room to breathe apartment in the suburban ghetto of West Chester, PA with her husband and three cats. Her poetry and photography have been featured in Stirring, and Shadyvale Press published several of her poems online, as well as one in a lovely anthology chapbook. She is a threetime winner of the (now missing) Great New Hope Poetry Slam. Eventually, she hopes to crack the world open and pull out a whole new language full of concision. Or maybe she'll just stick to publishing.
	Editor of Mentress Moon Jen Ross is the former editor of Mentress Moon, an online journal by women which ran from June 1999 - July 2002. She comes from Kingston, Canada and has lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Louise and the cats, for the past five and a bit years. She works as a web designer and an editor and sometimes a Mac-fixit-goddess. She's going be studying part time at the Open University starting in February, when she takes up the reins of her wayward Literature degree.