Lizzie Stark

Lizzie Stark is the Editor-in-Chief of Fringe and a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. Currently she’s working on a narrative nonfiction book about LARP. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College, and an MS in new media journalism from Columbia University. In addition to her literary pursuits, she enjoys making soap, cooking, and blogging about books and nerdularity at LizzieStark.com.

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Dara Cerv

Dara received her MFA in 2006 from Emerson College in Boston, and has continued to live and work there. Outside of writing poetry, she’s a full-time massage therapist, an avid bicycle commuter, and a lover of animals of every shape and size.

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Jill D'Urso

After taking far too long to decide what to do with her life post-college, Jill ended up at Emerson College, where she received an MA in Publishing and Writing in 2008. When she’s not toiling away in the college textbook industry, she can be found discussing the finer points of pop culture, attending live shows around Boston, eating copious amounts of cheese, and blogging at Boston Bookbean.

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Llalan Fowler

Llalan is a graduate of Emerson College with a degree in Publishing and Writing. She has been published several times in Boston’s Weekly Dig including several inflammatory Soapbox columns. Llalan is the editor of the Globe Corner Bookstore blog, a co-founder of Emerson’s Vernacular blog, and is the beer columnist for Bostonist.com. The American Double IPA is her favorite brew.

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Joanna Green

Joanna Green holds a BA in English from the University of Minnesota and an MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Apart from interest in queer theory, women’s studies, and ecocriticism, she spends her days working at Beacon Press, an independent nonprofit publisher.

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Julia Henderson

Julia Henderson graduated from Vassar with a BA in History in 2001 and received her MA in writing and publishing from Emerson in 2006. Her passions are print production and electronic publishing, and she passes her days working as a media producer for a textbook company. Julia spends a lot of time planning dream vacations, badmouthing corporate media, and training her baby boy to be a good little feminist like his mama.

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Anna Lena Phillips

Anna Lena Phillips received an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2006 and moved back south as soon as she could thereafter. She is the recipient of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry. She writes, bikes, and plays oldtime banjo in Piedmont North Carolina.

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Shuchi Saraswat

Shuchi Saraswat has a BA from Franklin and Marshall College and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. When not reading or writing, she enjoys movies, photography, and walking around Boston. Currently, she is working on her first novel.

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Janell Sims

Janell Sims earned her MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College and since then, her love affair with Boston has turned into a sustained five-year relationship. She is currently Publications Coordinator at the Shorenstein Center in Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and a graphic designer on the side. She is actively involved with her local church and enjoys hosting parties, advocating feminism while sipping martinis, and listening to local music in her favorite Somerville neighborhoods.

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Cat Mooney

Cat Mooney received her BA in English and French from Simmons College in 2006. Since then she has dabbled in marketing, publishing, and freelance writing. When not working in higher ed publishing, she can be found writing about events for various Boston blogs, trying new restaurants, and checking out local bands’ shows.

Sadaf Ahsan

Sadaf Ahsan is a student at the University of Toronto where she is studying English and psychology. When she’s not writing, she spends her time listening to music, watching Johnny Depp movies and Russell Brand shows, and laughing with her friends.

Nellie Bellows

Nellie Bellows holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English from Guilford College. When she’s not writing poems or thinking about them, she’s probably drinking coffee, reading YA novels, and pretending to be otherwise engaged.

David Duhr

David Duhr reviews books and lit mags for a variety of websites, including Chamber Four and The Review Review. He has lived in Milwaukee, Denver, D.C. and Boston, but is currently holed up in a tiny Florida town that is nothing but strip malls and monster trucks. Next stop is Austin. Or Tucson. Or Albuquerque.