responsive-lightbox domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/sundre5/ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Derek Alger<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Derek is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA writing program, and serves as Editor-at-Large to PIF Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Del Sol Review, The Literary Journal, and Night Train, to name a few. He has worked as an editor and reporter for newspapers in the Bronx for over 20 years.<\/p>\n Roberta Allen<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Roberta is the author of eight books, including the novel, The Dreaming Girl, republished in 2011. Her latest story appeared in The Literarian. She is also an artist\/photographer with work\u00a0in the collection of The\u00a0Metropolitan \u00a0Museum. She recently finished a novel called In This Room. She teaches private writing workshops. \u00a0 robertaallen.com<\/a><\/p>\n Johan Bj\u00f6rck<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Johan is an artist and musician living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a BA from at Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts in Ume\u00e5 Sweden. Recent exhibitions include: Miracle & Connelly Presents with Laura Piasta (Vancouver, CA), The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), The Dust Gallery (Ume\u00e5, Sweden), Sasquatch Research Center GBG Convention NO:1 at Vita Rosen Gallery (Gothenburg, Sweden), Carlsson Svensson Contemporary (Budapest, Hungary), Forte Prenestino (Rome, Italy). More about his work can be found at:\u00a0http:\/\/jbjorck.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Phoebe Bright<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Phoebe decided to pursue fiction writing after she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Behavioral Biology and a plan to move to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Phoebe currently works along the Atlantic coast during the warmer months and in a Rocky Mountain ski town when there’s snow. This is her first fiction publication.<\/p>\n David Crabb<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n David is an actor, writer, Moth Slam host, and co-producer of the live storytelling series, Ask Me Stories. He has been a member of the acclaimed Off-Broadway Axis Theatre Company since 2001, starring in productions in NYC and abroad in Paris & Edinburgh. His solo show “Bad Kid” was a 2012 New York Times Critics’ Pick. A memoir based on the show comes out in 2013.<\/p>\n Jim Daniels<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Jims\u2019 recent books include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry (Carnegie Mellon University Press), All of the Above (Adastra Press), and Trigger Man, short fiction (Michigan State University Press), all published in 2011. Birth Marks will be published by BOA Editions in 2013.<\/p>\n Vicky Deger<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Vicky is originally from Australia, and has moved around the world, living in New York, Brazil, and London, until settling in Los Angeles, where she has raised two sons. Her work has appeared in The Coachella Review, The Grove Review, and Gulf Stream Magazine. Currently, she works in the entertainment industry as\u00a0a costume designer, while planning her next adventure.<\/p>\n Ron Drummond<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Ron\u2019s\u00a0Why I Kick at Night\u00a0was a Portlandia Press Chapbook Competition winner.\u00a0His poetry also appears in the Penguin textbook\u00a0Literature as Meaning, in the anthologies\u00a0Poetry Nation,\u00a0Poetry After 9\/11,\u00a0This New Breed,\u00a0and\u00a0Saints of Hysteria,\u00a0and in the literary journals\u00a0Barrow Street,\u00a0Bellevue Literary Review,\u00a0Borderlands,\u00a0Columbia Review,\u00a0Court Green,\u00a0Global City Review, The Journal, Northwest Review,Ocean State Review, among others. His translations, in collaboration with Guillermo Filice Castro, have appeared in\u00a0U.S. Latino Review, Terra Incognita\u00a0and\u00a0Guernica. He has been awarded fellowships from Ragdale, VCCA, and Blue Mountain Center, and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.<\/p>\n Stephanie Eckenrode<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Australian-born New Yorker Stephanie Eckenrode currently works as an advertising copywriter in Manhattan.<\/p>\n Ophira Eisenberg<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Ophira is a comedian, writer, and host of NPR\u2019s new weekly trivia comedy show, Ask Me Another. Selected as one of New York Magazine’s Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny, and featured in the New York Times as a skilled comedian and storyteller with a \u201cbleakly stylish\u201d sense of humor, Ophira has also appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1, E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, and the Discovery Channel. Her writing has been published in five anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics and Heeb Magazine’s collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish. Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy will be coming out in Spring 2014. She is a regular host and teller with The Moth.<\/p>\n Ida Fogles<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Ida lives in Missouri and maintains a belief that the Kansas City Royals will some day rise Her writing has appeared in publications here and there, including Well Versed and The First Line.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Miriam Foley<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Miriam Foley is a graduate of English Literature from the University of Leeds.\u00a0 She lives in Madrid and works as Lifestyle Editor at hellomagazine.com. She is at work on her first novel.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Becki Fuller<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Becki Fuller is a Brooklyn based photographer and co-founder of the street art & graffiti blog The Street Spot. Her interest in the urban arts has taken her all around the five boroughs of New York and beyond, searching for beauty and inspiration in city landscapes. Her photography has been featured in numerous books and exhibited in shows at Pandemic Gallery, Mighty Tanaka, Fresthetic, Mishka, Phantom Audio, and most recently as part of the Billboard Art Project in Atlanta, GA. She is a strong advocate for people taking back public space from corporate America and making it their own once again.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Holinger<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Richard has lived in the Fox Valley west of Chicago for 30 years, where he writes a column for a local newspaper. His poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in The Iowa Review, Boulevard, and The Southern Review, and his work has reviewed three Pushcart Prize nominations.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Jessi Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n Jessi is a New York comedian who appeared on The Showbiz Show with David Spade. She was previously a panelist on VH1\u2019s Best Week Ever, and had her own special on Comedy Central\u2019s Premium Blend. Klein served as Director of Development for Comedy Central and helped shepherd the network\u2019s hit series Chappelle\u2019s Show. She has also worked on staff for the ABC series, Samantha Who? Starring Christina Applegate in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Mary Koral<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Mary teaches at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. She writes about the experience of multicultural, multiracial living since that defines much of her life. She is happy to be published in Ducts, one of the best online journals out there.<\/p>\n Sean Lause<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Sean teaches courses in Shakespeare, Literature and the Holocaust and Medical Ethics at Rhodes State College.\u00a0 His poems have appeared in\u00a0The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly, The Beloit Poetry Journal\u00a0and\u00a0Poetry International.<\/p>\n Monique Antonette Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Monique grew up in Aurora and Denver, Colorado and is a board member of the New York Writers Workshop. In 2011, she created a beginner’s fiction workshop called The Writer’s Corner, based in Brooklyn. She is working on her first novel, Shady Hills. Monique\u00a0received both her MFA and MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, preceded by a B.A. in Technical-Journalism from Colorado State University. She\u00a0lives in Brooklyn and is the\u00a0assistant editor of mergermarket, an online news service of the Financial Times Group.<\/p>\n Valerie Z Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n Valerie is a college professor in New York. A comprehensive list of her poetry and fiction can be found online at valerielewis.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Lee Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Lee is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever, and three other novels, as well as the memoirs, Such a Life, From Our House, and Turning Bones, and the story collection, The Least You Need to Know. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Amalia Melis<\/strong><\/p>\n essays<\/p>\n Amalia is a New Yorker living in Athens, Greece, where she is the creator\/organizer of the Aegean Arts Circle Creative Writing Workshop. She is a freelance writer whose published work includes 2nd place short story award for new writers and an essay in Glimmer Train, and she also makes assemblage sculptures out of found objects.<\/p>\n Joddy Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry<\/p>\n Joddy earned his MFA in Poetry at Texas State University, San Marcos, and a Ph.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University. \u00a0His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Portland Review, American Literary Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Carquinez Poetry Review, and Texas Review. \u00a0He currently teaches writing and rhetoric at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n Jennifer Noel<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir<\/p>\n Jennifer Noel is a mother, psychotherapist and writer living in Maine. Though she has been writing fiction and memoir since she was a child, she has only recently begun to publish.<\/p>\n Laura Piasta<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Laura is a Canadian-born artist who works in Sweden and Canada. She is currently completing a several-month residency in Copenhagen at the Factory of Art and Design. She finished her MFA at Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, Ume\u00e5 Sweden in 2012 and her BA from Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada in 2006. Recent exhibitions include: Miracle & Connelly Presents with Johan Bj\u00f6rck (Vancouver, CA), Gallery 60 (Ume\u00e5, Sweden), The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), Konsthall C (Stockholm, Sweden), The Museum of Longing and Failure (Copenhagen, Denmark), Atelierhof Kreuzberg (Berlin, Germany), The Power Plant (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and The Grimm Museum (Berlin, Germany), among others. More about her work can be found at:\u00a0http:\/\/laurapiasta.com<\/a><\/p>\n Stephen Policoff<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Stephen’s 1st novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004.\u00a0 His essay, “Music Today?” won the Fish Short Memoir Award and was published in the Fish Anthology (West Cork University, Ireland) in July 2012.\u00a0 His fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Provincetown Arts, Family Fun, Opium, Otis Nebula, and many other publications.\u00a0 He teaches writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU.\u00a0 This piece is excerpted from his 2nd novel, The Buddha Train.<\/p>\n Karla Siegel<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Karla Siegel is a Philadelphia painter, trained at Tyler School of Art, obtaining her BFA in 2004. \u00a0Her work has been widely exhibited in the Philadelphia region as well as New York. \u00a0In addition to her career as a painter, Karla Siegel has worked with a number of Philadelphia art institutions including the Mural Arts Program, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Main Line Art Center. \u00a0She currently lives in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, where she maintains a working studio practice at the The Church Studios artist co-op.<\/p>\n M.G. Stephens<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n M. G.\u00a0Stephens\u00a0(Michael Gregory\u00a0Stephens) is the author of eighteen books, including the novels\u00a0Season at Coole<\/em> and\u00a0The Brooklyn Book of the Dead<\/em>, as well as such nonfiction works as\u00a0Lost in Seoul<\/em> and\u00a0Green Dreams<\/em>, which won the AWP award in creative nonfiction and subsequently was picked by Joyce Carol Oates as one of the notable nonfiction books of the 20th century in\u00a0Best American Essays of\u00a0the Century<\/em>.\u00a0He recently completed a new novel, a book of stories, and a nonfiction\u00a0cultural history and memoir about downtown New York in the 1960s.<\/p>\n Emily Weiner<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Emily is a New York based painter and writer.\u00a0 Recent and upcoming exhibitions of her work include: Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia PA), The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), Visual Arts Gallery (New York,) Fleisher\/Ollman Gallery(Philadelphia PA) Camac Centre d\u2019Art (France), and Concrete Utopia (New York.)\u00a0 She teaches painting at The School of Visual Arts in New York and at Pratt Institute. Her writing on art has appeared in\u00a0Art Forum, Domus, and\u00a0Time Out New York.\u00a0 She is a member of the Art Book Club.\u00a0 More about her work can be found at:\u00a0www.emilyweiner.com<\/a><\/p>\n Cindy Stockton-Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery<\/p>\n Cindy is a Philadelphia based artist whose recent shows include \u2018Toward Futility\u2019 a solo project at Artspace Liberti (Philadelphia) and \u2018An Island Now Peopled,\u2019 a two-person exhibition at Chashama Chelsea Project Space (New York.) She has shown throughout the US and abroad at venues such as Heskin Contemporary (New York, NY,) PS122 (New York NY,) The Painting Center (New York, NY,) Sandy Carson Gallery (Denver, CO,) Public Fiction (Los Angeles, CA,) and The Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa, FL.)\u00a0 Her writing on art has appeared in ArtNews, NYArts Magazine, The New York Sun, in addition to university and gallery publications.\u00a0 Cindy is currently a member of the curatorial team at Grizzly Grizzly. You can find out more about her work at\u00a0www.cindystocktonmoore.com<\/a><\/p>\n Liara Tamani<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction<\/p>\n Liara ‘s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Apalachee Review, Blackbird, Fourteen Hills, Mythium Literary Journal, and Storyscape Journal. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Duke University. In addition to writing, she has a passion for teaching the healing movement forms of Nia and yoga. She is currently working on her first novel and lives in Houston.<\/p>\n Louis Wittig<\/strong><\/p>\n humor<\/p>\n There\u2019s really not too much to know about Louis Wittig. He\u2019s slightly overweight, his haircuts don\u2019t always make perfect sense, and he thinks he\u2019s a much better judge of character and investments than he actually is. He does try to write, though. His blog is www.mrbutterworth.com.<\/p>\n STAFF<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Jonathan Kravetz<\/strong><\/p>\n editor-in-chief<\/p>\n Jonathan is best known for his ability to scratch his forehead and squint his eyes simultaneously.\u00a0 He is a playwright, editor and some time trumpet player who spends too much time reading long feature stories on the world wide web.\u00a0 He is a co-founder of ducts and founder of the New York based reading series, Trumpet Fiction, held each month at KGB Bar in the east village.\u00a0 His plays have been produced in New York, Dallas and Brighton, England.\u00a0 He teaches creative writing in New York.<\/p>\n Derek Alger<\/strong><\/p>\n essays editor<\/p>\n Derek Alger is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA writing program, and serves as Editor-at-Large to PIF Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, Del Sol Review, The Literary Journal, and Night Train, to name a few. He has worked as an editor and reporter for newspapers in the Bronx for over 20 years.<\/p>\n Lisa Kirchner<\/strong><\/p>\n memoir editor<\/p>\n Lisa is the producer and host of New York\u2019s only reading and improv series, The Next Chapter. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon.com, BUST Magazine, The New York Post, Budget Travel, Kirkus Reviews and TheHuffingtonPost.com, among numerous others. Before moving to the Persian Gulf, she was the religion editor for Pittsburgh\u2019s gay and lesbian newspaper, the bridal editor for its society rag, and an alt newsweekly dating columnist. Her flash essay, \u201cMy Husband: My Moto,\u201d appeared in the compilation Learning to Love You More (Prestel Publishing, 2007). Her solo show, CRANKY WHITE GIRL IN QATAR, is the basis for her memoir. She currently lives in New York City.<\/p>\n Amy Lemmon<\/strong><\/p>\n poetry editor<\/p>\n Amy is the author of two poetry collections:\u00a0Fine Motor\u00a0(Sow\u2019s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and\u00a0Saint Nobody\u00a0(Red Hen Press, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel ofABBA: The Poems\u00a0(Coconut Books, 2010) and\u00a0Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation\u00a0(Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in\u00a0Rolling Stone,\u00a0New Letters,Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Barrow Street,\u00a0and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy is professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens.<\/p>\n Anne Mironchik<\/strong><\/p>\n assistant<\/p>\n Anne is much more renowned for her songwriting, which reaches back to capture the classic brilliance of favorite hits by Carole King and Laura Nyro.\u00a0 She blurs the lines between jazz, country, rock and R&B, weaving melody and rhythm together in masterful ways. Her rich alto voice leads listeners from one genre to another as she explores the struggles, loves, fears and joys of everyday heroes.\u00a0 When she\u2019s not writing great music, Anne is busy crunching numbers for ducts!\u00a0 Anne\u2019s new CD “Find Me” is now available and can be found at www.annemironchik.com.\u00a0 4newsongs@earthlink.net.<\/p>\n Cindy Stockton Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n art gallery editor\/illustrator<\/p>\n Cindy is a Philadelphia based artist whose recent shows include ‘Toward Futility’ a solo project at Artspace Liberti (Philadelphia) and \u2018An Island Now Peopled,\u2019 a two-person exhibition at Chashama Chelsea Project Space (New York.) She has shown throughout the US and abroad at venues such as Heskin Contemporary (New York, NY,) PS122 (New York NY,) The Painting Center (New York, NY,) Sandy Carson Gallery (Denver, CO,) Public Fiction (Los Angeles, CA,) and The Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa, FL.)\u00a0 Her writing on art has appeared in ArtNews, NYArts Magazine, The New York Sun, in addition to university and gallery publications.\u00a0 Cindy is currently a member of the curatorial team at Grizzly Grizzly. You can find out more about her work at www.cindystocktonmoore.com<\/p>\n Kat Rodies<\/strong><\/p>\n humor editor<\/p>\n Kat Rodies is a nurse practitioner, medical writer, and short fiction enthusiast who has been called the ideal person to have with you in a POW camp.<\/p>\n Tim Tomlinson<\/strong><\/p>\n fiction editor<\/p>\n Tim\u2019s fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, North American Review, Libido, and elsewhere.\u00a0 He’s published haiku in Modern Haiku, Time Haiku, and Black Bough.\u00a0 He’s an occasional journalist, and a full time teacher, working at both NYU and the New York Writers Workshop.<\/p>\n Illustrators<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Daniella Batsheva <\/strong><\/p>\n Daniella is an illustrator and designer born and raised in Philadelphia, working in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Brought up in a clash of cultures from various different countries, her work subtly reflects the frenzy of her home and family.\u00a0 She graduated from The University of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration in May, 2011. Inspired by bad horror films, eastern culture, and candy, Daniella concocts edgy pieces with color palettes brighter than your mom\u2019s 80\u2019s jumpsuit.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Frost (humor section<\/strong>)<\/p>\n When not reminiscing about life in the old New York, Chris Frost designs and crafts handbags. His illustrations have appeared in Ducts and Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium Of Imaginary Fights. He currently resides in Bushwick, but dreams of a move to Puerto Varas.<\/p>\n Yuliya Kashapova<\/strong><\/p>\n Yuliya has been working in the design field for past 6 years as a graphic artist and illustrator. In 2005 she received BA in Design and Studio Art from UVA, and went on working on various projects in TV, film, and music industries in NYC, San Francisco, LA, and New Jersey. 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