MASTHEAD : Requited

Amanda Marbais (Managing Editor, Fiction Editor) received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has done editorial work for South Loop Review. Her most recent work has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Hobart web, Kill Author, Fiction at Work, The2ndHand, Fictionville, Staccato and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago. You can visit her website at amandamarbais.com.

Heather Momyer (Nonfiction Editor) reads fiction for Hotel Amerika and is an editor for Slash Pine Press, a publisher of poetry chapbooks based out of Tuscaloosa, AL. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Collagist, H_NGM_N, Moria, JMWW, trnsfr, and Exquisite Corpse, among others. A new essay is forthcoming in Ekleksographia, and an article on Tarantino’s Kill Bill is forthcoming in the Popular Culture Review.

H.V. Cramond (Poetry Editor) has an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute and has a background in theatre and performance. She currently reads for South Loop Review, Pegasus Theatre's Young Playwright's Festival and Bailiwick Theatre's Second Sex Series. She is interested in writing that explodes off the page and resists conventional genres in her own work. You can read more of her writing at www.hvcramond.com.

Kevin Kilroy (Drama Editor) reads writes and thinks too much about reading writing and thinking too much. Then he stops this stuff and hangs out and laughs. His poetic plays have been published in Bombay Gin, Pinstripe Fedora, and Bimbo Gun. His play, The Silence of Malachi Ritscher, was produced in Chicago by Theatre 5.2.1. He is also co-editor/co-founder of Black Lodge Press. www.blacklodgepress.org

Robin Morrissey (Guest Video Editor) lives in Chicago, IL. She has an MFA in Poetry, which she completed mostly from a locked video-editing carrel in the Media lab at the University of Michigan – avoiding the English Dept. Her first video performance was in 1999, in downtown Detroit’s I/O café, on Woodward under the People Mover. Her second was in Belgium. She never imagined a future so interdependent on screens. She supports transparency. Her writing and dramatic and visual work have appeared in pheobe, Columbia Poetry Review, Park Yourself, Lincoln Square Arts Center, Around the Coyote, Matrix Gallery, and the no project.

Lynda Wellhausen (Guest Sound Editor) has published nonfiction about music and art in Mule and M Magazine. She lives in Chicago.