Conspirators
Editorial Director and Creative Nonfiction Editor
Dan Cafaro
Dan Cafaro is the founder and chief imagination officer of Atticus Books, a fiery multimedia press based in Madison, New Jersey (or wherever Dan is living at the moment). Dan is a rabble-rousing old swordsman with a penchant for satire and sun-dried tomatoes. Despite his eternal hunt for meticulous prose, he is an untrained metaphor grifter and frequent abuser—Strunk & White, take that—of the closed em dash. Atticus Review is his celestial firstborn (and she has sworn to Dan on a stack of City Lights pocket paperbacks and Evergreen Review back issues that she will become a galactic hitchhiker when she grows up). Dan tweets with great flourish and inconsistency @AtticusBooks.
Fiction Editor
Michelle Ross
Michelle Ross’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Arroyo Literary Review, Blue Lake Review, Bird’s Thumb, The Common, Fiction Southeast, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Synaesthesia Magazine, and other journals. Her work has won prizes from Gulf Coast, Sixfold, and Main Street Rag (for the fiction anthology, Slower Traffic Keep Right). She grew up in Texas, in a suburb between Houston and Galveston Island. She earned her B.A. in creative writing from Emory University and her M.F.A. from Indiana University. She now lives in Tucson, Arizona, where besides writing fiction and parenting her five-year-old, she also writes science assessment and instructional content for grades K-12. She can be found on Twitter @michellenross.
Special Issues Editor
Kenneth Rosen
Kenneth Rosen works and writes for The New York Times. His nonfiction and essays appear regularly in the Times and has appeared in, among others, The Atlantic, Narratively, Vice, and is forthcoming in Tin House, Creative Nonfiction and Nowhere Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Popcorn Fiction, Mulholland Books and the Ever After Review. He’s a nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia University and writes a monthly narrative column about late-night eateries in New York City for Brooklyn Based. He’s at work on a memoir.
Features Editor, Fiction
Georgia Bellas
Georgia Bellas is an editor and artist living in Somerville, Mass. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Sundog Lit, Bird’s Thumb, WhiskeyPaper, The Collapsar, and [PANK], among other journals, and her poem in Cartridge Lit received a nomination for the 2014 Best of the Net anthology. You can follow her teddy bear, host of the Internet radio show “Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon,” on Twitter @MrBearStumpy. If you ever meet her, she will probably tell you about her bicycle’s movie star status.
Poetry Editor
Michael Meyerhofer
Michael Meyerhofer’s third book, Damnatio Memoriae, won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. His previous books are Blue Collar Eulogies (Steel Toe Books) and Leaving Iowa (winner of the Liam Rector First Book Award). He has also won the James Wright Poetry Award, the Laureate Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, and five chapbook prizes. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Quick Fiction and other journals, and can be read online at his website.
Poetry Editor, Boo’s Hollow
Lea Graham
Lea Graham is the author of Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books) and the chapbook, Calendar Girls (above ground press). Her poems, collaborations, reviews and articles have been published in journals and anthologies such as American Letters & Commentary, The City Visible, Notre Dame Review and The Capilano Review. Her translations are forthcoming in The Alteration of Silence: Recent Chilean Poetry through the University of New Orleans Press. She is Associate Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a native of Northwest Arkansas.
Mixed Media Editor
Matt Mullins
Matt Mullins is a writer, musician, experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Pleiades, Hunger Mountain, Harpur Palate, Descant, subTerrain, Hobart, decomP, kill author, The San Pedro River River Review and a number of other print and online journals and anthologies. His debut collection of short stories, Three Ways of the Saw is available from Atticus Books. His ever-evolving interactive digital literature project currently lives at lit-digital. He lives in Muncie, Indiana where he teaches screenwriting at Ball State University.
Editor, World Literature
Jayeeta Ghorai
Jayeeta Ghorai is an academic researcher, author, editor, columnist, consummate blogger who rants and woos in fine prose. Her works have appeared in The Times of India, Fringe, Rupkatha Journal, EAST Magazine and University of Leeds Human Rights Journal. She pens a regular column, A-muse-ment, at Mirrorfect and is about to start one for Eye Zine. She has an MA-English from University of Calcutta and is a trained instructional designer. Gleefully abandoning her long career as a learning & development professional, she has recently joined a modern languages academic programme. Now living in Leeds, UK, it is her birth city, Calcutta, that has made her what she is – an out-of-control book-junkie, film guzzler, culture critic, and very wordy-nerdy. Her web home is called An Idiot’s Tale.
Editor, More Than Sports Talk
Joe Lucido
Joe Lucido is a fiction writer from St. Louis, where the Cardinals populate the green fields of his mind and the Blues populate his winters. Some of his work appears or is forthcoming in Wigleaf, WhiskeyPaper, decomP, Hobart, Whiskey Island, Word Riot, Heavy Feather Review, and others. He also serves as Prose Editor for Black Warrior Review. Joe received his MA-English from Missouri State University and currently lives in Tuscaloosa, where he is pursuing his MFA. The Alabama Crimson Tide fill his fall Saturdays, and Nick Saban and Tony La Russa often lecture him on life and writing in his dreams. He can be found on Twitter @JosephLucido.
Book Review Editor
Sam Slaughter
Born and raised in the Jersey suburbs, Sam Slaughter received his BA from Elon University in North Carolina and his MA-English from Stetson University in Florida. He has had fiction and nonfiction published in places such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Four Chambers, Drafthorse, The Southern Lit Review, and The Review Review, among others. He’s a fan of a good bourbon cocktail and works at a brewery where he occasionally gets to make beers with literary names. His guilty pleasure is binge-watching true crime shows. He can be found at his website or on Twitter @slaughterwrites.
Managing Editor
Nick Sweeney
Nick Sweeney finds interesting and unique ways to use his English degree. In addition to working as the community editor for Atticus Books, he writes book reviews for several literary magazines, is an assistant editor at the Summerset Review, and is an active volunteer with PEN America. He’s brave enough to admit he’s a New York Mets fan and is not afraid to say he loves Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Yes, he knows how everyone else feels about that. He is also allergic to dogs and chocolate and yes, he knows how terrible it must be too.
Social Media Editor
Michelle Boring
Michelle Boring is a writer based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a small city outside of Pittsburgh. She graduated with her BA in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and is currently working on her MFA at Chatham University. At Chatham, she’s pursuing concentrations in publishing and teaching because she dreams of opening her own press someday and becoming a professor. Her nonfiction has appeared in Atticus Review and Pendulum. Aside from reading and writing, she likes crocheting, spending time with her Jack Russell, and being pushed around by her niece.
Associate Fiction Editor
Rachel Tanner
Rachel Tanner is a writer from Alabama. Her main hobbies lately include treating her adorable cat like a human, testing the limits of dry shampoo, and finally thinking of the perfect comeback to say to that cashier who made a rude comment to her eight months ago. As a stereotypical millennial, she texts too much and feels entitled to everything that exists in the entire world. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Empty Sink Publishing, Cheap Pop, Pentimento, Atticus Review, The Intima, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Transition, and other awesome places. You can keep up with her by following her on Twitter (@rickit) or adding the username rachelktanner to your Snapchat friends list.
ESCAPEES
Editors-in-Chief Emeritus
Beth Gilstrap (October 2014 to June 2015)
Joseph Gross (January 2013 to October 2014)
Katrina Gray (May 2011 to December 2012)
Former Fiction Editor
Jamie Iredell
Former Managing Editors
Jessica Thwaite
Zoë Henry
Libby Kuzma O’Neill