is a writer of fiction and theatre living in Brooklyn. He is a regular contributor to Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse and an associate editor at Akashic Books. His theatrical works have appeared in The Midtown International Theatre Festival, The Manhattan Theatre Source, Improvised and Otherwise (a festival of sound and form), and The New York Solo Play Lab. His debut book, The Session – a novella in dialogue, was published in March of 2007 to critical acclaim.
Management
Dan Piepenbring
- Editor
lives in Brooklyn and works as an editorial assistant at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A former researcher at the Institute for the Future of the Book, he also contributes to The Onion A.V. Club New York. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Scholar, Six Little Things, Identity Theory, Foghorn Magazine, and The Pinch, where Brian Evenson awarded it the 2009 Fiction Prize. In 2010, Mitzvah Chaps will publish “Hedonic Calculus,” a collection of his flash fiction. He cannot be followed on Twitter.
Alex Rose
- Co-founder, Editor, Designer
has published stories and essays in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Believer, Fantasy Magazine, The Reading Room, North American Review, The Providence Journal, The Forward, Obit-Mag and others. He has also directed a number of short films, videos and animations which have appeared on HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, ShowTime and the BBC, as well as in over two dozen festivals worldwide. His debut short story collection, The Musical Illusionist (Oct. 07) was described by Library Journal as “a potential cult classic” and by the Village Voice as “uncanny.” His story, “Ostracon,” was included in the 2009 edition of The Best American Short Stories, and his essay, “Stranger in a Strange Land” is set to appear in New York Stories, an anthology of features from the New York Times.
David Willems
- Co-founder, Contributing Editor