STAFF BIOS

 

Editors:


Laurah Norton Raines is co-founder and head fiction and non-fiction editor of SUB-LIT, and teaches at Georgia State University, the same school that granted her MFA in Creative Writing. Laurah's work has appeared in in or is forthcoming in Fringe Magazine, Night Train,  Post Road, Creative Loafing, and in genre anthologies. Laurah also works for Five Points. Laurah was a finalist for the 2006 Agnes Scott festival prize in fiction, and recently won first place in Creative Loafing's seventh annual fiction contest (2008). Laurah's interests include punk rock, tattoos, retro culture, and dive bars. She feels pressure to write the great American novel, but is worried about her progress, and has quit smoking to allow more time for revision.


John Casey Keyser is founder, publisher, and head online editor of SUB-LIT. He is an OIF II vet, pizza cook, and has traded in his economic textbooks for a knife kit and a pair of chef’s whites. He is currently attending The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of Atlanta. He was weaned on a steady literary diet of Ayn Rand, Ernest Hemingway, Milton Friedman, and Murray Rothbard. There are samples of his writing buried away in the desks of college professors and trash cans all along the east coast.


Kat Hyon assistant fiction editor at SUB-LIT, received her MFA at Florida International University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at Georgia State University.  She also teaches part-time at GSU and has served on the editorial boards of numerous publications.  She is an angry little Asian girl who is working on not being so angry all the time.  Her interests include good books, SciFi (Battlestar Galactica ROCKS!!!), Hello Kitty, pretty shoes, and church sub-cultures (they exist!).  She is currently looking for a patron and agrees to write very flattering things about anyone interested in funding her literary endeavors.


Michael Ogletree, SUB-LIT's poetry editor, is the author of the chapbook This Is Not a Venn Diagram, the initial volume in the Tundra Chapbook Series from Taiga Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, BlazeVOX, Weave, Poetry Midwest, & Death Metal Poetry, & various other places. He lives in Candler Park, a lovely slice of greenery on the outskirts of the Atlanta city limits, and spends his free time talking to his cats & pestering his roommate. He's still crying after watching that show on the History Channel where they debunk all the science in Star Wars.


Amber Nicole Brooks, SUB-LIT’s art editor,  lives and writes in Decatur, Georgia. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Staccato Magazine and The Eudora Welty Newsletter. She received third prize in the 2007 Playboy College Fiction Contest for her story "Love is Like a Rock."


Scott Miles,  SUB-LIT’s assistant poetry editor, is a creative writing student at Georgia State University with a concentration in poetry. He names his shampoo and soaps after famous boxers. This morning, he showered with Apollo Creed.

Chelsea Taylor is a creative writing student at Georgia State University.  Her main hobbies are: watching silent films, looking everything up on Wikipedia, and browsing through Craig's list personal ads.  She also collects owl stuff in her spare time, not that you give a hoot.

Pete Zuppardo,  SUB-LIT’s senior reader and proofing editor, is an English major at Georgia State University with a concentration in literature.  He likes the smell of just blown out birthday candles.  He would rather be a Handy Smurf than a Brainy Smurf.

Joshua Aldridge is a dichotomy of ideals, swaying back and forth, like a novice on stilts, with every step he takes.  When inebriated he sometimes claims, with a puffed out chest, to write poetry and fiction, but really he only mumbles incoherently, through insomniac nights, into the default headset of outdated speech-recognition software. Sometimes the results are elegant, even charming, but always accidental.

Readers:

Addison Williams,  SUB-LIT’s assistant fiction editor, is a recent graduate from the Georgia State University, who now thinks of himself as an important person. Most of the time, he just keeps himself really busy so that he looks like a contributing member of society. He has done nothing valuable with his life up to this day. His severe megalomania leads him to believe that he will one day be a bestselling author/philosopher/rockstar, but that has yet to occur.

Lauren Duffey is a recent graduate of Georgia State.  She now lives in her parents' attic (At least it's not the basement.) where the air quality is poor but where, sometimes, she can hear rain on the roof when she's reading your fiction submissions.  Lauren writes stuff that's sometimes "ehh," sometimes "hmm," and sometimes "ahh."  She urges you not to buy into any of the self-deprecating bullshit contained within several of her esteemed colleagues bios here, because they are all quite brilliant really.  In different ways, at different things.  And so is she.