The Editor, Howard Junker, was born in Port Washington, NY, a town Fitzgerald called East Egg in The Great Gatsby. He was educated at Horace Greeley, Canterbury, Amherst (a classmate of David Hamilton, editor of The Iowa Review, and a class ahead of DeWitt Henry, co-founder of Ploughshares, and Peter Stine, founder of Witness), Stanford, and the University of San Francisco. He bought his Ph.D for $35 from the Clayton Theological Institute. He served in the Naval Air Reserve as an antisubmarine warfare technician and has written for many magazines, including Architectural Digest, Art in America, Artforum, Esquire, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation, The New Republic, New York, Newsweek, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and Vogue. He has also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a television producer, a P.R. flack, a construction carpenter, a fondue cook, and a junior high school science teacher. He has appeared in the films The Werewolf of Washington and I Am A Sex Addict. He recently made his YouTube debut covering Satisfaction. He founded ZYZZYVA, a journal for West Coast writers and artists, in 1985, and has edited five anthologies of work from its pages, most recently, AutoBioDiversity (Heyday) as well as four ZYZZYVA first novels and three ZYZZYVA first collections of poems. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their daughter, a junior in college in Washington, D.C.

The Managing Editor, Kristin Kearns, grew up in Los Angeles and attended Shakespeare camp in Topanga Canyon. She received a B.A. in English and creative writing from Pomona College and half an M.A. in fiction from the University of California, Davis. After a stint as the proclamations writer for the mayor of New York City, she returned to San Francisco. She has published stories in failbetter, Faultline, Flyway, Calyx, Confrontation, Opium, and Alaska Quarterly Review.