Staff
Sarah Gambito (Executive Director) is the author of Matadora (Alice James Books) and Delivered (forthcoming from Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. A recipient of grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony, she teaches at New York University and Baruch College.
Joseph O. Legaspi (Program Director) holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is a recipient of a 2001 poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Imago, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming in fall 2007 from CavanKerry Press. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, recently in the North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto Del Sol, Poet Lore, Seneca Review, The Literary Review, and the anthologies PinoyPoetics and Titling the Continent. He is also Assistant to the Administrator at The Pulitzer Prizes.
Jennifer Chang (Part-time Staff) is the author of The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia) and has poems appearing or forthcoming in Boston Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized in Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Best New Poets 2005, and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006. She was the 2005 Van Lier Fellow in Poetry at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville with her husband and two cats.
Vikas Menon (Part-time Staff) has published poems in journals such as TriQuarterly, Bitter Oleander, Brooklyn Review, Catamaran, Toronto Review, APA Journal, and Monolid, among others. His work is forthcoming in the first anthology dedicated to South Asian American poetry, Writing the Lines of Our Hands. He received his M.F.A (Poetry) from Brooklyn College in 1997, where he studied with the poets Allen Ginsberg and Louis Asekoff. He received his M.A. in Literature from St. Louis University in 1993.
Advisory Board
Oliver de la Paz has taught at Arizona State University, Gettysburg College, Utica College, and he currently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, The Asian Pacific American Journal, North American Review, and elsewhere. His book of prose and verse, Names Above Houses, was a winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series and published by Southern Illinois University Press. His second book, Furious Lullaby, is the editor’s selection for 2007, published by Southern Illinois University.
David Mura is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. A Sansei or third generation Japanese American, Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Anchor-Random), which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year, and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (1996, Anchor). Among his awards, Mura has received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, two NEA Literature Fellowships, two Bush Foundation Fellowships, four Loft-McKnight Awards, several Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and a Discovery/The Nation Award.