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BOARD OF EDITORS

Managing Editor Sunny Woan	Fiction Editor Paul Lai
Sunny Woan likes to dote on cats. She has a difficult time maintaining thermal homeostasis. Her creative works have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Blue Earth Review, Houston Literary Review, and SoMa Literary Review, among others; and legal research in Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Law; Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law, Cal. Western Law Review, Santa Clara Law Review and have been anthologized in casebooks. By day, Sunny works as general counsel for a global investments firm. By night (and by way of weekends and holidays), she is a designer of briefcases, power handbags and accessories under the label Taryn Zhang. Contact her at sunny@kartikareview.com.	Paul Lai Paul Lai hopes one day to live in a library. He is pursuing an MLIS degree at St. Catherine University. Previously, he has studied and taught at Yale University, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, and the University of St. Thomas. He has co-edited scholarly journal issues about Asian American fiction and alternative contact between peoples in the Americas. He frequently presents essays on Asian American literature at academic conferences where he has the opportunity to meet other scholars and writers.  His publications include reviews of books about Asian American literature as well as academic essays on notable Asian North American writers. He is on the executive committees of the Circle of Asian American Literary Studies and the Modern Language Association's Asian American Literature Division. Paul lives with his partner and their crazy dog Giles in Minnesota, and he is working on a collection of horror short stories, all featuring dogs. Contact him at paul@kartikareview.com.
Poetry Editor Kenji Liu	Non-Fiction Editor Jennifer Derilo
Kenji C. Liu is a 1.5 generation immigrant from New Jersey. His Pushcart Prize-nominated writing arises from his work as an activist, educator and cultural worker. Kenji’s poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes (Finishing Line Press, 2009) was nominated for a California Book Award. His writing has appeared in Kweli Journal, Doveglion Press, The Best American Poetry Blog, Lantern Review, Flick of My Tongue and other places. He writes, designs and lives in Oakland, away from the San Francisco tundra. Contact him at kenji@kartikareview.com.	Jennifer Derilo received her MFA (creative nonfiction emphasis) from Mills College, where she was its first Jacob K. Javits scholar. She teaches creative writing and English at Southwestern College. While she blogs for the mAss Kickers Foundation, a cancer advocacy and support group, she enjoys reading (and writing) about people and things unseen. She often has nightmares about zombies. And abandoned predicate parts. Contact her at jennifer@kartikareview.com.
	ADVISORY BOARD   Elmaz Abinader Gus Lee Justin Chin Li-Young Lee Peter Ho Davies Min Jin Lee Jessica Hagedorn Ed Lin Randa Jarrar Nami Mun Gish Jen Fae Myenne Ng Elaine H. Kim Lac Su Maxine Hong Kingston Bryan Thao Worra
Editor-at-Large Christine Lee Zilka
Christine Lee Zilka has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies such as ZYZZYVA, Verbsap, Yomimono, and Men Undressed: Women Authors Write About Male Sexual Experience. An adjunct instructor at a local college, she received an Ardella Mills Fiction Prize from Mills College in 2005, placed as a finalist in Poets and Writers Magazine’s Writers Exchange Contest in 2007, and received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open in 2009. Christine earned her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. In addition to writing short stories, she has a novel in progress and writes at the Writers Room in New York City. Contact her at editor@kartikareview.com, with subject line "Attn: Christine Lee Zilka."