Janaka Stucky
Publisher
janaka (at) blackocean.org
Janaka is practicing the perfection of effort through the pursuit of pugilism, while joyfully participating in the sorrows of the world. He is also the author of The World Will Deny It For You and Your Name Is the Only Freedom. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty.
Carrie O. Adams
Poetry Editor
carrie (at) blackocean.org
Carrie Olivia Adams is a book publicist by day who at night names her poems for drinks at her favorite Windy City cocktail bar. Despite having perfected the art of procrastination through elaborate cooking projects that involve cheese incubators and 5-gallon water baths, she has somehow authored two books of poetry—Intervening Absence and the forthcoming Forty-One Jane Doe’s. She is learning Japanese in the hope of one day becoming a cartoon samurai.
A. Minetta Gould
Managing Editor
minetta (at) blackocean.org
A. Minetta Gould was raised in the mittens by a beautician. She's since transplanted herself to the West where she worries herself with rust, the epic, and pagination.
Nikkita Cohoon
Online Editor
nikkita (at) blackocean.org
Nikkita makes things: poems, pictures, books, or the occasional herb-infused cupcake. She likes to paste found photos, paper scraps, and her memories of St. Francis’ relics (especially his teeth) on the walls of her pet-friendly Ohio apartment where she lives with her husband and a dog named after Winnie Cooper.
Paige Ackerson-Keily
Editor for Handsome
handsomepoetry (at) gmail.com
Paige collects mourning pins – slivers of metal used to attach black cloth to a hat, clothing, or coffin at the passing of a loved one. She also finds Arctic Exploration Literature among the most relaxing to read. In 2006 she was the winner of both the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the Poets & Writers Exchange.
Allison Titus
Editor for Handsome
handsomepoetry (at) gmail.com
Allison believes that the motel in each of us, that central little vacancy or solitude, is what makes a poem possible. We are grateful that her own inner-motel makes Handsome possible. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with a rough and tumble assortment of skeleton keys and the letter F.
Susan McCarty
Prose Editor
*On Hiatus*
Susan works as a genre book editor in New York. Despite her daily exposure to werewolf romances and cowboy potboilers, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prizein 2005. Since moving to New Jersey five years ago, Susan has developed a fondness for Bruce Springsteen, disco fries and fist fights.
James Daley
Series Editor - Lost Library
*On Hiatus*
James lives the lovely and improbable life of a suburban family man in Newport, Rhode Island, where he edits anthologies, writes fiction, and tries to teach college kids how not to suck at writing. Lately, he's been masquerading as the digital youth until someone blows his cover.