Janaka Stucky
Impresario
janaka (at) blackocean.org
Janaka is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean. Rooted in Boston, he spends his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Janaka likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty. He is developing the perfection of effort, and is ever ready to serve you by word.
Carrie O. Adams
Poetry Editor
carrie (at) blackocean.org
Carrie lives in Chicago where she works incognito at a university press, roots for the Cubs, and writes poems on the Green Line. She's also our official Chicago liaison; if you're in or near the Windy City and would like to be a part of a Black Ocean event, she's your girl.
Susan McCarty
Prose Editor
susan (at) blackocean.org
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 Prize in 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
james (at) blackocean.org
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.
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.
A. Minetta Gould
Associate Editor
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.