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FICTION

FALL 2015
Graeme Carey
Travis Dahlke
Jessica Lanay
Edmund Sandoval
Chelsea Sutton

SUMMER 2015
Tyler Barton
John Waddy Bullion
Kendra Fortmeyer
Benedict Noero
Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger

SPRING 2015
Kaj Tanaka
Ron Burch
Willie Davis
Crystal Galyean
Lina Patton

WINTER 2015
Colin Dodds
Abigail Grosse
Paul Hansom
Gaetan Sgro
Hannah Sloane

FALL 2014
Jeremy Cohen
Sara Flemington
Katrina Johnston
Remy Barnes Klein
Meredith Turits

SUMMER 2014
Christopher DiCicco
Joe Halstead
Thomas Kearnes
Marilyn Morgan
Kate Scarpetta 

SPRING 2014
Bizzy Coy 
Andrew Hofmann 
Shaunagh Jones 
Amanda Miska
Robert Wexelblatt 

WINTER 2014
Sarah E. Bode
Mike Flynn
Ilya Lyashevky
Kayla Miller
Robby Nadler

FALL 2013
Todd Covalcine
Joshua Keefe
Monica Macansantos
Barbara Nishimoto
Travis McDonald

SUMMER 2013
Sean Conway|
Tyler Corbridge
Alicia Lawrence
Maggie Wolff Peterson
Kayla Rae Whitaker

SPRING 2013
Kim Farleigh
Adrienne Gunn
Julie Hart
Christopher Murphy
Juli Anne Patty

 WINTER 2013
J. A. Bernstein
Stacie Burroughs
James P. Mullaney Jr.
Paul Stenis
Ned Thimmayya

FALL 2012
Jaylee Alde
Braydon Beaulieu
Leesa Cross-Smith
Matthew Kabik
Nicole Wolverton

SUMMER 2012
Erik Adams
Jessica Hagemann
Michael A. Gonzales
Ben Philippe
David Whelan

PREVIEW ISSUE
Joshua Brooks
Jane Jankie
Nick Kinling
Lauren Saft
Cristina Sciarra

POETRY

FALL 2015
Kate Welsh
Lauren Camp
Jessica Lanay
Lisa Higgs
H.R. Webster

SUMMER 2015
Nolan Allan
J. De Nero
Zebulon Huset
Jacob Johnson
Meggie Royer

SPRING 2015
Andrew Collard 
Steven Perez
Jemy Francillon
Kendra Anne Bartell
Rachel J. Bennett

WINTER 2015
Peter Giebel
Emily O’Neill
Desmond S. Peeples
Suzanne Wise
Greg Zorko

FALL 2014
Peter Friedman
Chase Gilbert
Kyle Kaczmarick
Karen Ladson
Vincent Toro

SUMMER 2014
Hari Alluri 
Christina Olivares 
Caitlin Scarano 
Adrian Sobol 
Danielle Wheeler

SPRING 2014
Dan Encarnacion 
David Hornibrook 
Anastasia Knasiak 
RB Mertz 
Sam Samson

WINTER 2014
David Blumenshine
Clay Cantrell
Ashleigh Lambert
John McKernan
Anthony Ramstetter, Jr.

FALL 2013
Lindsay Daigle
Lenny DellaRocca
Michael Naghten Shanks
Anthony Opal
Jim Warner

SUMMER 2013 
Cassandra Dallet
Merridawn Duckler
Pattie Flint
Dustin Luke Nelson
Benjamin Norris

SPRING 2013 
Jessica Lakritz
Lori Lamothe
Stephen Lewis
Kristi Shewmaker
Adam Walsh

WINTER 2013
O. Ayes
J. Scott Brownlee
Christine Hamm
Carolyn Martin

Jake St. John

FALL 2012
Sara Dailey
Paul Hostovsky
Brent Lucia
Michelle Matthees
Danny Simmons

SUMMER 2012
Barbara Perez
Andrew Reynolds
Tara Rogan
Robert Alan Wendeborn
Lawrence Yoon

PREVIEW ISSUE
Michael Alpiner
Diane Kelly
Natalie Keshlear
Conrad Milhaupt
Yun Wei

GUEST EDITORS

FALL 2015
Ana Maria Caballero is a Colombian writer living in Miami.

Jennifer Hanks writes an ongoing column, Disorder Reigns, for Arcadia’s online sundries blog, is an assistant editor for Sundress Publications, and an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans.

Kamden Hilliard is a poet/essayist running through Hawaii, New York, and Hong Kong with his woes.

LaTroya Lovell is a rising senior at Eugene Lang College of The New School.

Shannon Sommers is a high school sophomore and young writer in New York City.

SUMMER 2015
Joy Donnell is a producer and content strategist based in Los Angeles, California, where she currently serves as Chief Operating Officer and Editorial Director for Parajin Media Corp, overseeing fashion lifestyle publication Vanichi Magazine and the luxury interior design-focused Vanichi Style magazine as Editor-in-Chief.

Jeremy Jusek will be graduating with his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arcadia.

Katherine Liu is a student at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Illinois and a national reader for Polyphony HS.

Molly Schulman graduated from The New School in 2009 with a degree in creative writing, and since then, has published several poems and become a professional fiction editor.

Alan Semrow lives in Wisconsin and is a graduate of English from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

3rd ANNUAL e-CHAPBOOK CONTEST, NEWARK ACADEMY
Emma Hoffman is a rising senior.

Katy Kim is a rising sophomore.

Lauren Oliner is a rising sophomore.

Rose Parker is a rising sophomore.

Chris Pyo is a rising junior.

Durga Srivatsan is a rising sophomore.

Jordan Rhodeman is a rising junior.

Katelynn Rodriguez is a rising senior.

Anne Ruble is a rising junior.

Nick Wecal is a rising junior.

Betsy Zaubler is a rising junior.

Abbey Zhou is a rising sophomore.
 

SPRING 2015
Drew Crownover is a trial attorney in Dallas, TX, and is editing his first novel, a historical fiction drama set in Austin in the 1840’s.

Yovani Flores is a queer Afro-Borikua writer, poet and performer from Chicago. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she re-imagines storytelling as performance with a community of fiercely talented women.

Heather Freudenthal  is a filmmaker and film programmer from Brooklyn.

Dalton McGee is the host of Outward/In.

Jess Schmonsky is a graduate student in cultural/medical anthropology in San Francisco.

WINTER 2015
Jacob Brower is an MFA candidate at New York University, where he teaches undergraduate creative writing and serves as fiction editor for Washington Square Review.

Sarah Harris is a single mom raising two kids and mapping her first novel with NaNoWriMo.

Rebecca Jones is a native Southern Californian and is back in her hometown as a partner and divisional sales associate for a global asset management firm.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is currently the Creative Director of Mambu Badu, the Arts Editor for Spook Magazine, a volunteer docent at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, an educator at the Brooklyn Museum and a full-time instructional coach in NYC public schools.

Emily Zhang is a high school junior in Maryland.

FALL 2014
Samantha Bignola is an Assistant Buyer at Mulberry North America.

Matt Nelson and Jacob Perkins run, operate, over-cooperate on Mellow Pages Library and have published fiction most recently in Hobart Pulp and the Brooklyn Rail, respectively.

Brook Stephenson is an educator and cultural critic practicing creative writing, photography, videography, and journalism, is putting the finishing touches on his debut novel and is founding a writer’s colony.

Billy Wirasnik is an award-winning sound designer based out of Boston. His work has been heard in film festivals in Pakistan, Brazil and throughout the United States. He is the sound designer of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody award-winning interactive documentary Hollow.

Leslie Yoon is a native Southern Californian living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is a former journalist, currently working in Post Production.

SUMMER 2014
Kima Jones lives in Los Angeles and is writing her first poetry collection, The Anatomy of Forgiveness.

Melanie Kostrzewa is a former public school teacher turned stay-at-home mom of three, Etsy shop owner and blogger, living in New Orleans.

Sheena Sahibdeen holds a BA in English from Tufts University and is a Global Marketing Manager for a consulting firm in Manhattan.

Ian Sautner is a Senior IT Recruiter/Account Manager and freelance photographer based out of Brooklyn, NY. 

Ryan Welch is a native New Yorker living in Los Angeles, CA. He works in advertising sales.

2nd ANNUAL e-CHAPBOOK CONTEST, NEWARK ACADEMY
Josh Collin is a rising junior.

Erin Eagle is a rising sophomore.

Elina Hoffmann is a rising junior.

Alicja Madloch is a rising senior.

Rebecca Mandelbaum is a rising junior.

Casey Maslan is a rising junior.

Dana Press is a rising sophomore.

Sophie Rosenberg is a rising junior.

Samantha Sidi is a rising junior.

Valery Tarco is a rising junior.

Sheila Vazir is a rising junior.

Mollie Wohlforth is a rising senior.

SPRING 2014
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow, the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013), and co-editor for HER KIND at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

Jenny Boissiere is a dancer, performer and Pilates Instructor living in New York City.

John Bussman is a criminal defense attorney in Orange County, CA.

Flannery James is a high school senior at Newark Academy.

Jason Polan is the founder of Taco Bell Drawing Club.

WINTER 2014
Jason Kichline is the Emmy award-winning producer of the web-tv series Reporting AIDS and serves as the Senior Finishing Editor for Oxygen’s On-Air Promotions & Marketing department.

Mary Sotnick is a candidate for a Masters degree in English at California State University, Long Beach, where she is executive editor of Watermark. 

Lara Taubman Wisniewski is an arts editor and curator, currently living in Belgrade, Montana.

Eric Vasquez works as an Art Director at World Wrestling Entertainment and is a regular contributor of professional design tutorials for PSDFan.com.

David Whelan holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and lives and writes in London.

FALL 2013
Kevin Burdette received a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from the Julliard School and is a bass who will be returning to the Metropolitan Opera this fall in The Nose.

Shannon Caley is a community college student, focusing on bringing eco-friendly innovations into everyday living.

Natalia Cortez Burdette received a law degree from the University of Michigan and is the associate general counsel at Teach for America in New York.

Patty Dann is the author of three novels, STARFISH (forthcoming), SWEET & CRAZY, and MERMAIDS, which was made into a movie, starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. She currently teaches at the West Side YMCA in NYC.

Cate Norian holds a BA in photography from Brooks Institute of Photography, a BA in political science from Kenyon College, and is a photo editor and photographer currently working in Los Angeles.

SUMMER 2013
Harry Cheadle is an associate editor at VICE Magazine and a graduate of the creative writing program at Pratt Institute.

Paige Hart works in investment management and holds an MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Amelia Jane Nierenberg is a high school junior at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a fiction reader for The Adroit Journal, and the fiction editor and co-founder of the Fieldston literary magazine, The Icebox.

Gina Park is currently creating innovative sweaters for the Heritage department at Forever21.

Rider Strong is an actor and filmmaker, best known for his roles on Boy Meets World and in Cabin Fever, and is co-host and founder of the books podcast Literary Disco.

SPRING 2013
Jamie Brisick is a writer and director based in New York City.

Sara Fuentes is AYP Program Director, Community Association of Progressive Dominicans.

Alex Lemke is a 2013 MFA in Art candidate at California State University, Los Angeles.

Eric Nelson is the author of The Silk City Series (Knickerbocker Circus, 2010) and The Walt Whitman House (Crumpled Press, 2013).

Evan Shoemake is a writer and weight loss consultant.

WINTER 2013
Hillary Eaton lives and writes in Los Angeles and is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Undertow Magazine.

Matt Goodmark works in media and has performed independent stand-up and sketch comedy for over seven years.

Amy Linden is a music and culture critic/journalist, the former co-host of VH1′s 4 on the Floor, and founder of the Brooklyn-based monthly reading series, (reading) our words.

Lara Stapleton is a writer of prose, poetry, and screenplays, including The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing, which won the Pen Open Book Award.

Charles Torres-Chae is a contract analyst at NYU Medical Center.

FALL 2012
Stephen Paul Miller is the author of several books of poetry and prose and is Professor of English at St. John’s University.

Fernando Perez III is a writer and Major League Baseball player (currently on sabbatical), working on his first novel.

Jasmin Rosario is currently working as a Volunteer Manager for CFY, a national educational nonprofit organization.

Cheryl Wilson works in fashion as a freelance consultant for Limited Brands.

Tiphanie Yanique is a fiction writer, poet and essayist. She is a professor in the MFA School of Writing at the New School.

SUMMER 2012
Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator. She is the director of the MFA Program at Adelphi University.

Mark DeGasperi is Executive Director of Media Development International and teaches screenwriting at New York City universities.

Frank Sautner is a native New Yorker and works as a union steamfitter.

Rachael Vrooman is an Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident in Columbus, Ohio.

Rachel Young is Coordinator – Business Affairs & Distribution for Turner Broadcasting.