The Faces of Hunger Mountain
Miciah Bay Gault, Editor
Miciah Bay Gault is a graduate of the Syracuse University MFA in Writing. Her stories have appeared in Agni and The Literary Review. She lives with her husband and children in Montpelier, Vermont, where she edits Hunger Mountain, teaches at the Community College of Vermont, and writes stories.
Robin Behn, Poetry Editor
ROBIN BEHN is the author of four books of poems, Paper Bird (Texas Tech), which won the AWP Award Series in Poetry, The Red Hour (HarperCollins), Horizon Note (Univ. of Wisconsin Press), which won the Brittingham Prize, and The Yellow House (Spuyten Duyvil), and the chapbooks The Oboist and Naked Writing (DoubleCross Press). She is also co-editor of the Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach(HarperCollins). Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is Professor of English in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama.
Barry Wightman, Fiction Editor
Barry Wightman spent thirty years in high-tech and decades chasing the it of rock ‘n roll. His novel Pepperland, unsurprisingly, is about the birth of the Internet, radical politics and the magic of rock ‘n roll—a revolutionary love story. It’ll be published in some traditional and/or electrickal method someday soon. He blogs and tweets about books, culture and music and, many decades ago, thankfully came to terms with the realization that he would never be Keith Richards. He’s a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a contributing essayist for WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio, is a professional voiceover talent (he loves to read his stuff in public) and he leads a working rock ‘n roll band. You should know that it’s a safe bet that when his writing isn’t happening, he picks up his guitar and plays. He received his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Robert Vivian, Creative Nonfiction Editor
ROBERT VIVIAN’s first book, Cold Snap As Yearning, won the Society of Midland Authors Award in Nonfiction and the Nebraska Center for the Book in 2002. His first novel, The Mover Of Bones, was published in 2006 and is Part I of The Tall Grass Trilogy. Part II, Lamb Bright Saviors, was recently published–and Part III, Another Burning Kingdom, will be published in 2011. His next collection of essays, The Least Cricket Of Evening, will also be published in 2011. His most recent novel, Water And Abandon, will be published in 2012; and he’s just completed another novel, The Long Fall To Dirt Heaven. He also writes plays, over twenty of which have been produced in NYC. Many of his monologues have been published in Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Best Women’s Stage Monologues. His most recent foray into playwriting was an adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts that premiered at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo in 2006. His stories, poems, and essays have been published in Harper’s, Georgia Review, Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, Glimmer Train, and dozens of others. He teaches writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is Associate Professor of English at Alma College in Michigan.
Claire Guyton, The Writing Life Editor
Claire Guyton is a freelance writer and copyeditor currently living in Lewiston, Maine, with her sweet husband and not-so-sweet cat. She’s working on three short story collections and blogs about writers and writing for Hunger Mountain’s Another Loose Sally. Her fiction has appeared in Crazyhorse and elsewhere. Her Hunger Mountain essay celebrating the short story was nominated for a Pushcart. Claire is the Maine Arts Commission’s 2012 Literary Arts Fellow. She earned her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Cynthia Newberry Martin, The Writing Life Editor
Cynthia Newberry Martin lives in Columbus, Georgia. Her fiction, essays, and book reviews have appeared, or will appear, in Gargoyle, Contrary, Storyglossia, and Numéro Cinq, among other places. Both her novels placed in the 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom writing competition, her first novel, The Painting Story, on the Shortlist for Finalists, and her second novel, Between Here & Gone, as a Semi-Finalist. She is the Review Editor for Contrary, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and currently working toward her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as on a new novel. You can find her at Catching Days.
Bethany Hegedus, YA and Children’s Lit Editor
Bethany Hegedus’s Truth with a Capital T (Delacorte/Random House) and Between Us Baxters (starred) (WestSide Books) were both named a Bank Street Books, Best Books in 2010 and 2011. Forthcoming, with Atheneum/Simon & Schuster is the picture book Grandfather Gandhi, co-authored with Arun Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma. Bethany operates The Writing Barn, a writing workshop/retreat space and all around book lover haven. She teaches privately and speaks across the country. A longtime resident of NYC, she now writes from her home in Austin.
Humberto Ramirez, Visual Art Editor
Humberto Ramirez is an artist interested in issues of difference as conceptualized in contemporary art and cultural theory. Humberto’s work presently is concerned with social issues and the power of language in shaping our values and perceptions. Humberto is a multimedia artist working in painting, video and curatorial projects. His work is shown online as well as at traditional venues such as art galleries, museums and film/video festivals. Humberto’s work has been shown throughout the USA as well as in Latin America and Europe. He has lectured on topics including postmodern theory, cultural criticism, psychoanalytical theory and globalization among others. Humberto’s recent and future projects include an invitation in January 2009 to The Chinese American Arts Council in NYC to participate in a panel discussion in the wake of the Obama election. This panel was titled ‘Are You Chinese Enough’ and consisted of artist Ron Choi, artist Ting Yih, architect John Chow, artist/curator Humberto Ramirez and artist Mary Ting. Humberto is scheduled to have a one-person painting/video show titled “Heaven and Earth” at the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, New Hampshire in September 2009. Humberto is also curating a show tentatively titled “Identity After Identity” in collaboration with Ting Yih for the Chinese American Arts council in NYC scheduled to open in November 2009.
Kris Underwood, Social Media Coordinator
Kris Underwood is a poet, mostly, but has been known to dabble in Non-Fiction/Memoir. Previously, she’s been a mentor at the MotherVerse Magazine writing workshops and served as various Editors at mother-centered magazines. She’s been living in Vermont for way too long and is looking into some place warmer with very little snow. You can learn more at her blog, Writing In the Mountains.
Ross McMeekin, Assistant Fiction Editor
Ross McMeekin’s fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Storyglossia, Necessary Fiction, Connotation Press, Monkeybicycle, and other fine journals. He recieved an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Seattle, WA.
Jennifer Bowen Hicks, Assistant CNF Editor
Jennifer Bowen Hicks earned her MA in Journalism from The University of Iowa and is pursing her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She compiled and edited a book of essays titled, Hirkani’s Daughters. She’s a contributing editor at Defunct Magazine where her work can also be found. Currently, she is writing a prose collection about accidental inheritances and unintended dowries. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and two sons.
Rebecca Macijeski, Assistant Poetry Editor
Rebecca Macijeski received her bachelor’s degree in English and Music from Simmons College in Boston, and she earned her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011. Her lifelong studies of classical violin and writing have prompted travel to such countries as Austria, Slovenia, and Japan. She enjoys writing, working, and playing music in central Vermont.
Caroline Carlson, Assistant YA and Children’s Lit Editor
Caroline Carlson writes fiction for young readers and poetry for just about anyone. She earned a BA from Swarthmore College and is a current student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Caroline has served as a writer and developmental editor for dozens of high school and college textbooks. She lives with her husband in the Mid-Atlantic, where she attempts to fill every available inch of space with books.
E. Kristin Anderson, Assistant YA and Children’s Lit Editor
E. Kristin Anderson grew up in Westbrook, Maine and is a graduate of Connecticut College. She has a fancy diploma that says “B.A. in Classics,” which makes her sound smart but has not helped her get any jobs in Ancient Rome. Once upon a time she worked for The New Yorker magazine, but she decided being a grown up just wasn’t for her. Currently living in Austin, Texas, Ms. Anderson is an assistant editor at Hunger Mountain for their YA and Children’s section. With her pal Mirand Kenneally, the co-editor of the upcoming DEAR TEEN ME anthology (Zest Books, 2012), based on the website of the same name. As a poet she has been published worldwide in around two dozen literary journals from the indie-queen Fuselit, to the prestigious Cimarron Review. She is in the process of querying a couple young adult novels and keeps herself busy writing and revising other novel projects. She wrote her first trunk book at sixteen. It was about the band Hanson and may or may not still be in a notebook at her parents’ house. Look out for Ms. Anderson’s work the forthcoming anthology COIN OPERA II, a collection of poems about video games from Sidekick Books.
Gwen Mullins, “Another Loose Sally” Contributor and Assistant Editor
Gwen Mullins is working on a short story collection but has become more engaged in personal essays recently, which is what led her to the blog world. She finds herself writing snippets of essays in longhand during particularly uninspiring conference calls, re-writing the same story to exhaustion on her laptop in her bedroom late at night, and jotting notes in a little red book for ideas that need to steep without being forgotten. She completed her MFA in fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011. In addition to contributing regular blog essays to Hunger Mountain, Gwen works as a claims manager at a disability insurance company, reminding herself that Kafka worked in insurance for a while. She lives in Chattanooga with three dogs, two children, and one husband.
Erica Sabelawski, Intern
Erica Sabelawski is a junior English major at St. Michael’s College. She has extreme publishing aspirations and is an editor of the Onion River Review.
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Caroline Mercurio, Founding Editor
Brian Zeigler, Bird Artist
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