Jackie Corley - Editor-in-Chief/Publisher (editor AT wordriot.org)
Jackie Corley was born in 1982. She developed Word Riot in March 2002 with the help of Paula Anderson. Word Riot Press, an independent publishing press, evolved out of the magazine in January 2003. Jackie's writing has appeared on-line at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and SerialText, and in print in Consumed: Women on Excess (SNM), BOOM! For Real (BNS) and most recently in The Flash (Social Disease). She lives in Freehold, New Jersey. Visit her personal website at jackiecorley.wordriot.org.
Charles P. Ries - Poetry Editor (poetry AT wordriot.org)
Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred and seventy print and electronic publications. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing. He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory and five books of poetry -- the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore (www.woodlandpattern.org). He is a member of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and a founding member of the Lake Shore Surf Club, the oldest fresh water surfing club on the Great Lakes. You may find additional samples of his work by going to: http://www.literati.net/Ries/.
Kevin O'Cuinn - Fiction Co-Editor (wr DOT submissions AT gmail.com)
Kevin was raised in Ireland but now lives in Frankfurt, Germany, where he teaches English and tries to keep his nose clean. Links to his work around The Web can be found at Kevsville.
Timmy Waldron - Fiction Co-Editor (wr DOT submissions AT gmail.com)
Timmy's work has appeared in So New Media's Words V, Monkey Bicycle, Word Riot, Snow Monkey, Futures Mystery Anthology, Slow Trains, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, Fiction Warehouse, Thieves Jargon, Hack Writers, Soma Literary Review, Zygote in my Coffee, and The Journal of Modern post.
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Brian Ames - Fiction Co-Editor
Brian Ames has a book called "Smoke Follows Beauty," a Dalmatian named Frannie, and a bass guitar he built himself. He lives in Missouri. His second book, "Head Full of Traffic," comes out in Spring 2004.
David Barringer - Fiction Co-Editor
David Barringer has written for Details, Mademoiselle, Playboy, and The American Prospect. He's written fiction for Epoch, Nerve, Wisconsin Review, In Posse Review, CrossConnect, Tatlin's Tower, and many others. His latest book is The Human Case (Brainpan Publishing). Word Riot Press will soon publish his fiction collection, We Were Ugly So We Made Beautiful Things. He lives in Michigan and maintains a website at www.davidbarringer.com.
G.A. Ingersoll - Creative Non-Fiction Editor
A past Pushcart nominee, G.A. Ingersoll's work has appeared in CutBank, Snow Monkey, Pindeldyboz, West Wind Review and Whalelane.
