Josh McDonald

Josh is a writer, illustrator, cartoonist, and movie-theater manager.  He resides in rural New England with his fiancee, and a rabbit named Ginger.

Kate Gorton

Susan Gray

I've gottawrite. I write by day in an upholstered cubicle. Gratefully. But spare moments are for Lucy, writing my first YA novel, and Gottawrite Girl. If you smell your books and obsess over similes, I'd like to be your friend. And if you've gotta book out, I'll interview you, too!

Keanan Barbour-March

Keanan is a recent graduate from Elizabethtown College in central Pennsylvania, with a double major in Sociology/Anthropology and Religious Studies: Ethics/Society, and a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. He works as a freelance photographer and outdoor adventure education/leader, and has been known to hold boring jobs as an independent contract-driven statistics consultant, but will always be searching for a better (less boring) job.

Marielle Messing

When not planning the wedding from hell, Marielle enjoys sewing, writing, and kicking ass on her little sister's MarioKart Wii. Although she graduated from a hoity-toity journalism school last spring, people still think she attends the environmental college around the corner. Maybe it's the so-worn-out-they're-practically-rawhide leather sandals?

Meredith Matthews

Meredith has been a little busy lately. She runs two businesses while also maintaining a day job as an archivist for a consulting agency. She's had some marginal success as a personal finance blogger , dropped out of college three different times, still holds the chicken nugget eating record for the girls' side at Camp Timber Lake, and produces a wildly unpopular podcast that's been insulted on two different continents (a fact she takes peculiar pride in). When she's not doing any of that, she smokes lots of hookah, eats meat, makes jewelry and gloats over her latest run-on sentence.

And finally, Meredith develops a crush on Jaki Grier roughly once every three months, and hopes to mention that at a cocktail party some day. 

Charles A. Hohman

Cindy Castelli

Cindy enjoys a life exemplifying the "jack of all trades, master of none" concept. She works for a medical publisher and as a freelance copyeditor for another publishing company and for professors at a local university. To express her creative side, she is also a scrapbooking consultant. She also coaches her daughter's soccer team and is trying to repair her 75-year-old house. Any additional free time is spent enjoying time with her daughter and fiance, reading as much as possible (normally things along the young adult/fantasy line), spending time with friends and family, and taking pictures of every move her child makes.

Donnie

AJ Star

AJ spends more money on DVDs than she does on food. She cannot survive without the following: her copy of The Quotable Slayer, the Britney Spears catalog, a DVR, all 3 Law & Orders, Wikipedia, Nine Inch Nails (Halos 11, 19, 24, and 27), thumbs for texting, transcripts of 30 Rock episodes, Netflix, all seasons of Gilmore Girls and Buffy/Angel on DVD, Post-It notes, Amazon.com, and a credit card. AJ believes "cable television" and "an internet connection" should go without saying. She would have liked to include a list of every television series she watches, but you don't have that kind of time. In conclusion, AJ Star is obsessed with television. There is always a chance that television is actually obsessed with AJ Star, but it's too invasive a procedure to find out.

Kelsey Felice Shupe

Kelsey may be a hippie, but she most certainly is not dirty! In her professional life Kelsey works as a graphic designer for a playground manufacturer in Maryland. In her personal life she spends large amounts of time in yoga classes or outside with her husband Justin and her 65 pound lap dog Miss Betty. Kelsey is deeply rooted in an obsession with recycling, conserving, growing, eating, photographing, and loving pretty much anything she can. With her Associate's degree in Graphic Design and her Bachelor's degree in Business, Kelsey dreams of the day that she will grow produce, raise chickens, milk cows, and take care of her environment on a professional level, or at least semi-professional.

Amanda Sample

Jill Kelly

Jill has a B.A. in political science and sociology, but as is common for recent graduates, works a meaningless dead-end job unreleated to either field.

Jaki

Jaki is a Black-American non-monogamous gender-queer/femme hybrid with serious penis envy. She has several mild fixations that include (but are not limited to) minority studies, BDSM, feminism/womanism, politics, atheism, puggles, knives and fruit arranged artfully while covered in melted chocolate. She has no experience with anything so she's therefore qualified to give her uneducated opinion on a variety of topics that all stem back to her previous stated obsessions while equally stroking her over-inflated ego.

Afton Lorraine Woodward

Afton is a copy editor and a freelance music writer. She lives outside of Washington, DC, has an English degree and is approaching the 10,000-song mark in her iTunes library. She feels pretty confident in her knowledge of the following things: Jonathan Swift, iced coffee, They Might Be Giants, present participles, episodes of The X-Files , Irish folk music, paint-by-number logic puzzles, basic arithmetic, NPR podcasts, Wallace Stevens, the beers of Boulevard Brewing Co., the post-modern novel, quoting Arrested Development , making mix CDs, surviving a bear attack, and Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy" on Guitar Hero III . The following areas, however, need some work: Russian literature, throwing a curveball, spelling the word "nauseous," finding a suitable and well-paying job, Arcade Fire lyrics, sleeping enough, William Faulkner, standard deviation, the difference between Riesling and Chardonnay, wearing sunscreen, perfecting a fudge recipe, and Slayer's "Raining Blood" on Guitar Hero III . Her blurb and life are a work in progress.

Lindsay Bergman

Lindsay likes big sunglasses, loud music and shiny objects. After graduating from Washington College with a BA in English, she moved back to Central Pennsylvania, got a mindless job and started freelancing to pay off those pesky student loans. Lindsay's skills are primarily Adobe- and grammar-related. Design is kind of her thing, as she is a total perfectionist. For more information on Lindsay, find a description of "Virgo."

Sara W. Moreno

Sara works for a medical publisher in the NJ/PA area. She knows nothing and everything about nurse percepting and often feels compelled to ask people she randomly sees in scrubs about this experience. During the rest of her 17.5 hours a day, Sara searches the interweb, answers Lucy emails, writes fiction, poetry, and personal essays, rescues rabbits, quotes Pulp Fiction, and spends time with her wonderful husband, Donnie and our newly adopted bunny, Em.

Kate Amann

Kate has a BA in Drama and English, an MSc in Design and Digital Media, and no clue what to do with her life, aside from maybe open a late night chocolate cake shop on a hillside overlooking the Pacific in New Zealand. Yeah. That sounds about right.

She is currently working for the University of Edinburgh website, remodeling her flat, and running this magazine. She's a bit obsessed with food, travel, and Harry Potter. In an ideal world, she'd have a farm full of animals (as pets, not food), a garden full of vegetables, and the ability to apparate anywhere on the planet. Kate lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her boyfriend Scott, who graciously does the dishes every night, because he's about a hundred different kinds of wonderful.