Editors

Michal Mahgerefteh, Editor

Photo by Ben Mahgerefteh, January 2009

Michal Mahgerefteh is an award-winning artist and poet, born in israel and has lived in Virginia since 1986. Her work has been published in many literary magazines, including The Jew Blue Yorker, Fiddler on the Roof, Women in Judaism Contemporary Writings, University of Toronto, Sounding Collection published by the Open Page Poetry Group at Old Dominion University, Women's Journal at www.chabad.com, Ardent Journal, The Shofar Review, The Israeli National Radio Blog, Women Poetry Project Blog by Mindworm Press, and in many antholgies, including VOICES Israel, Skipping Stones, The Poet's Domain, The Poetry Society of Virginia 20th Anniversery Collection, and Mima'mmakim. Michal recieved many awards for her poetry, more rescent from The Green River Writers (2010) and The Poetry Society of Pennsylvania (2010). Michal served as a judge in The Poetry Society of Virginia 2010 Annual Contest and in The Tidewater Holocaust Commission Elie Weisel Annual Poetry and Essay Contests. Michal is the new elected Chairman of the Youth Annual Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Poetry Society of Virginia.

www.michalmahgerefteh.com

In My Bustan, debut collection, is now available through Michal's web site.
Field of Harps, is a collection of poems and drawings, to be released in late 2010.
Current solo art exhibit at The Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Norfolk, June-July 2010.
Michal is currently revising a thirty-page poetry chapbook, What's Left Behind.

Annie Dawid, Short Story Editor

Annie Dawid's third book, AND DARKNESS WAS UNDER HIS FEET: STORIES OF A FAMILY, was favorably reviewed in Jewish Book World, December 2009. She writes and makes art in South-Central Colorado, where she also runs a writer/artist retreat, www.bloomsburywest.com, and edits prose manuscripts while raising her 10-year-old son, Isaiah Max.

www.anniedawid.com

Linda Pressman - Blog Editor

Linda Pressman is a freelance writer who is one of seven sisters born to Holocaust Survivor parents in Chicago. She is the author of Father of Sons, a poem which won the Best Published Award in Poetica Magazine in March, 2008. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Znine, the Literary Journal of the University of Texas at Arlington, the Paradise Review, the Maricopa Anthology, and in Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. She has also written for the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix. In addition to this, she is working on a memoir. She has an undergraduate degree in History, did post-graduate work in Medieval History, has a Master’s in English, and has taught college as an English faculty adjunct. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband and two children. She also has a personal blog, Bar Mitzvahzilla, http://barmitzvahzilla.blogspot.com.