Staff
Paulette Licitra, Publisher/Editor, is a writer and chef, and teaches food literature workshops and cooking classes. She was food editor for the webzine Urban Desires, and food columnist for the Riverdale Press. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Global City Review, Spectacle, Journal of Italian Food, Wine & Travel, TEA a Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and other publications. Paulette completed her professional culinary studies at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in NYC, and has traveled extensively in Europe for culinary research. She published the cult poetry journal poemail®, and also writes for museums, theatre, and television. Paulette's blog
Peter Selgin, Editor & Co-Art Director. Peter's first book of stories, Drowning Lessons (UGA Press, 2008), won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies (Dzanc Books, April 2009), was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the AWP Award for the Novel. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, a memoir in essays, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press/Sightline Books. He is also the author of two books on writing craft, By Cunning & Craft, and the forthcoming 180 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, both from Writers Digest Books. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including Salon, The Sun, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and in the anthologies Our Roots Are Deep With Passion (Other Books, 2006), Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2003), Writers and Their Notebooks, (University of South Carolina Press, Summer 2009), and Best American Essays 2006. He leads an annual writing workshop in Italy, and lives in Spuyten Duyvil, New York. Peter's website; Peter's blog
Cortney Davis, Poetry Editor. Cortney's third poetry collection, Leopold's Maneuvers (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), won the Prairie Schooner 2003 Book Prize. Her other collections include Details of Flesh (CALYX Books, 1997), and The Body Flute (Adastra Press, 1994). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Massachusetts Review, The Sun, Witness, Crazyhorse, Ms. Magazine, Ontario Review, Hudson Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and other publications. She's been awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship and three Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants. I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and their Female Caregiver (Random House, 2001) won the Connecticut Center for the Book Non-Fiction Award in 2002. Her book The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing was published in January 2009 by Kent State University Press. Cortney's website
Claudia Carlson, Co-Art Director, loves to work with words and images, type and graphics. Her first book of poetry, The Elephant House, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in 2007. She co-edited, with Jeanne Marie Beaumont, The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, an anthology of modern fairy tale poems. Court Green, Heliotrope, and Southern Poetry Review, among others, have published her poems. The Same, The Cream City Review, and Gargoyle have featured her photos. Her design with Peter Selgin for Alimentum: The Literature of Food won a best in category award for General Trade Quality Paperback design at the 2008 and 2009 New York Book Shows. She works as a graphic designer and illustrator and lives in Manhattan with her husband, lyricist Jim Racheff. Claudia's website; Claudia's blog
Esther Cohen, Menupoems Editor, loves food and words. Someone is often eating in all that she writes (novels, poems, stories, essays). In restaurants, she wishes that menu words were different. If only poets wrote menus, there would be no more cold crispy salads. Food and all the words that food deserves, all the surprise and the texture, fragile, unforgettable and sometimes even deep bright green, would be part of each menu if poets were in charge. She teaches writing at Manhattanville College and is the author of five published books, most recently, a poetry collection, God is a Tree. Esther's website
Eric LeMay, Web Editor, and Ruth Polleys, Assistant Web Editor, have worked together through many cocktail hours. Eric serves as Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University. His poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard Review, The Nation, Poetry Daily, Gastronomica, and the anthology Best Food Writing 2009. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The One in the Many, and Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese, forthcoming in 2010. Shakespeare fan and compulsive proofreader, Ruth works for the Office for the Arts at Harvard and has served as a reader and copy editor for Harvard Review. Her work has appeared in Charles River Review and Six Word Stories. Her very first poem gave voice to a tomato. Eric's website
