Staff and Contributors
Greg Dember: Publisher, Editor, Contributor
Greg makes music, writes, philosophizes and does computery things in the Seattle area. He wants to experience what the world would be like if everybody stopped lying, like for real.
Greg makes music, writes, philosophizes and does computery things in the Seattle area. He wants to experience what the world would be like if everybody stopped lying, like for real.
Linda Ceriello: Editor, Contributor
Linda currently lives in Houston, Texas, where she is a student of nondual traditions and comparative mysticism. She also creates visual, conceptual and musical art. These pursuits, as well as her penchant for ruthlessly skewering unexamined assumptions, are informed by incessant wrestling with the Rodney King koan – Can't we all just get along? – and vice versa.
Linda currently lives in Houston, Texas, where she is a student of nondual traditions and comparative mysticism. She also creates visual, conceptual and musical art. These pursuits, as well as her penchant for ruthlessly skewering unexamined assumptions, are informed by incessant wrestling with the Rodney King koan – Can't we all just get along? – and vice versa.
Emily Keeler: Assistant Editor
Emily is a poet, essayist and travel writer with a background in literature, philosophy, religious studies and Jewish history from Northeastern University, Harvard Divinity School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to being Artocratic’s Assistant Editor, she is a passionate vegetarian cook, an experimental gardener and a general dreamer looking for the next inspiration fix. Her work appears in PresenTense Magazine, JTNews: The Voice of Jewish Washington, AKitchenInBrooklyn.com, and Examiner.com.
Emily is a poet, essayist and travel writer with a background in literature, philosophy, religious studies and Jewish history from Northeastern University, Harvard Divinity School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to being Artocratic’s Assistant Editor, she is a passionate vegetarian cook, an experimental gardener and a general dreamer looking for the next inspiration fix. Her work appears in PresenTense Magazine, JTNews: The Voice of Jewish Washington, AKitchenInBrooklyn.com, and Examiner.com.
Sarra Scherb: Assistant Editor Emeritus
Sarra is an arts, music and theater geek with a degree in history from the University of Washington. Surrounding herself with all the best culture the Pacific Northwest has to offer, she voraciously reads and writes about whatever comes across her path. She is currently assisting the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, with exhibition design and collections management.
Sarra is an arts, music and theater geek with a degree in history from the University of Washington. Surrounding herself with all the best culture the Pacific Northwest has to offer, she voraciously reads and writes about whatever comes across her path. She is currently assisting the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, with exhibition design and collections management.
William Doreski: Contributor
William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, and Natural Bridge.
William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, and Natural Bridge.
Daniel Grandbois: Contributor
Daniel Grandbois is the author of Unlucky Lucky Days, a Believer Book Award Reader Survey Selection and Indie Next Notable Book, and the art novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir. His work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Boulevard, Mississippi Review, and Fiction. Also a musician, Daniel plays in Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, and Munly.
Daniel Grandbois is the author of Unlucky Lucky Days, a Believer Book Award Reader Survey Selection and Indie Next Notable Book, and the art novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir. His work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Boulevard, Mississippi Review, and Fiction. Also a musician, Daniel plays in Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, and Munly.
Justin Hamm: Contributor
Originally from the flatlands of central Illinois, Justin now lives and writes in Missouri. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of publications, including Cream City Review, New York Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Red Rock Review, and The Brooklyn Review. He recently completed his first collection of poems, Illinois, My Apologies, for which he’s currently seeking a publisher. You can read more about Justin and his work at his website: NoisefForItsOwnsake.
Originally from the flatlands of central Illinois, Justin now lives and writes in Missouri. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of publications, including Cream City Review, New York Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Red Rock Review, and The Brooklyn Review. He recently completed his first collection of poems, Illinois, My Apologies, for which he’s currently seeking a publisher. You can read more about Justin and his work at his website: NoisefForItsOwnsake.
Laura King: Contributor
Laura once held an endowed chair at Yale University but found it too unstable for writing. She is the author of Waking the Witch, a novel officially under review at a major publisher but more likely under the broken leg of a fired editor's desk. As she contemplates whether to re-enter the flattened literary marketplace or distribute the novel free over the Internet, she is working on several new projects, including a novel about Vietnam, a translation of the Wakefield Mystery Plays, and a collection of music videos. She lives on Vashon Island in Washington.
Laura once held an endowed chair at Yale University but found it too unstable for writing. She is the author of Waking the Witch, a novel officially under review at a major publisher but more likely under the broken leg of a fired editor's desk. As she contemplates whether to re-enter the flattened literary marketplace or distribute the novel free over the Internet, she is working on several new projects, including a novel about Vietnam, a translation of the Wakefield Mystery Plays, and a collection of music videos. She lives on Vashon Island in Washington.
Matthew Lawrence: Contributor
Matthew Lawrence lives on Vashon Island, Washington with his wife and two children. In a moment of genius, he followed his heart to the west coast in 2002 from his native land of Chicago. Food was the main reason for his departure from Chicago and has driven his passion ever since. Armed with a BA in Documentary Video from Columbia College Chicago, he has grown veggies, raised and slaughtered animals, made beer and wine, and attempts to put it all together just about every night for dinner.
Matthew Lawrence lives on Vashon Island, Washington with his wife and two children. In a moment of genius, he followed his heart to the west coast in 2002 from his native land of Chicago. Food was the main reason for his departure from Chicago and has driven his passion ever since. Armed with a BA in Documentary Video from Columbia College Chicago, he has grown veggies, raised and slaughtered animals, made beer and wine, and attempts to put it all together just about every night for dinner.
Michael Nagasaka: Contributor
Born in Tokyo, raised in Vancouver, Canada and now based in Cambridge (UK), Michael Nagasaka is a 3D Animator and Director, with credits in both film (The Watchmen) and games (Silent Hill - Shattered Memories). He began his studies of classical animation at age 13 and has since then been obsessed with anything that moves through both real and imaginary spaces.
Born in Tokyo, raised in Vancouver, Canada and now based in Cambridge (UK), Michael Nagasaka is a 3D Animator and Director, with credits in both film (The Watchmen) and games (Silent Hill - Shattered Memories). He began his studies of classical animation at age 13 and has since then been obsessed with anything that moves through both real and imaginary spaces.
Robert Pepperell: Contributor
Robert Pepperell, Ph.D, is an artist and writer. Trained at the Slade School of Art, he has exhibited widely and published many articles and books, including The Posthuman Condition (2003), The Postdigital Membrane and Screen Consciousness (2000/2006, in collaboration with Michael Punt). He is a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, The British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Reader in Fine Arts at University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK, where he is also Head of Fine Arts.
Robert Pepperell, Ph.D, is an artist and writer. Trained at the Slade School of Art, he has exhibited widely and published many articles and books, including The Posthuman Condition (2003), The Postdigital Membrane and Screen Consciousness (2000/2006, in collaboration with Michael Punt). He is a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, The British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Reader in Fine Arts at University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK, where he is also Head of Fine Arts.
David Sklar: David Sklar lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and a geriatric cat. His publications include work in Wormwood Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Space & Time, as well as the novella Shadow of the Antlered Bird. He is also coediting the conjoined anthology Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic for Drollerie Press (see the call for submissions).
For more about David and his work, please visit http://davidwriting.com.
Marc Vincenz: Contributor
Marc was born in Hong Kong of an English mother and Swiss father, and received his bachelor's degree in creative writing at Duke University in the USA. Having previously lived in China, he now resides in Iceland, where he writes for the local English-language monthly. He has several projects in the works, including a nonfiction book covering the influence of the occult in Iceland, a collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel written in Mandarin, slated for publication in China.
Marc was born in Hong Kong of an English mother and Swiss father, and received his bachelor's degree in creative writing at Duke University in the USA. Having previously lived in China, he now resides in Iceland, where he writes for the local English-language monthly. He has several projects in the works, including a nonfiction book covering the influence of the occult in Iceland, a collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel written in Mandarin, slated for publication in China.
E.R. Womelsduff: Contributor
E.R. Womelsduff is a student attending Azusa Pacific University, double-majoring in English and cinematic arts. She writes novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry, with the goal of portraying truth in fiction. She has recently completed a vampire novel, Velvet, and hopes to complete the Velvet trilogy before she graduates college.
E.R. Womelsduff is a student attending Azusa Pacific University, double-majoring in English and cinematic arts. She writes novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry, with the goal of portraying truth in fiction. She has recently completed a vampire novel, Velvet, and hopes to complete the Velvet trilogy before she graduates college.
