BOARD OF EDITORS
Fiction Editor | Christine Lee Zilka
Christine Lee Zilka is a Korean American writer. She earned her MFA from Mills Colllege where she was awarded an Ardella Mills prize, and her B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley. Her stories and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Verbsap and elsewhere. She was awarded a Hedgebrook writing residency and was selected as a finalist in Poets and Writers Magazine’s WEX contest for the state of California. She currently has a novel and a collection of short stories in progress.
Poetry Editor | Kenji Liu
Kenji Liu is a 1.5 generation Japanese-born Taiwanese American expatriate of New Jersey suburbia. His writing arises from his work as an activist, educator and cultural worker. Kenji’s poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes was published by Finishing Line Press (2009), available on Amazon.com. His writing has appeared in Tea Party Magazine and the 2009 Intergenerational Writer’s Workshop online anthology Flick of My Tongue. Kenji was awarded a writing residency at Blue Mountain Center and was a presenting literary artist at APAture 2009, a multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American art festival. He is currently working on a multi-genre full-length collection of poetry, prose and visual art. He is a freelance graphic designer and also holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation from California Institute of Integral Studies. When not writing, Kenji paints, boulders, chases sunshine and hangs out with puppies. His biggest writing pet peeve is when people don't know the difference between its and it's.
Non-Fiction Editor | Jennifer Derilo
Jennifer Derilo received her MFA (creative nonfiction emphasis) from Mills College, where she was its first Jacob K. Javits scholar. She enjoys reading (and writing) about people and things unseen. She often has nightmares about zombies. And abandoned predicate parts.
Managing Editor | Sunny Woan
Sunny Woan likes to dote on cats. She has a difficult time maintaining thermal homeostasis. Her legal research and writing have been published by The Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Law, Temple Journal of Science, Technology, and Environmental Law, Santa Clara Law Review, Cal. Western Law Review, China Law Digest and have been anthologized in casebooks. Her creative works have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Blue Earth Review, and SoMa Literary Review, among others. Sunny is a corporate attorney who works in-house for a global investments firm and the founder of a designer handbags and accessories company, Taryn Zhang International.
