JOHN PARSLEY
Founding Editor
John Parsley is an editor in New York. His writing has appeared in Salon, McSweeney's, and NightSun, and on Northeast Public Radio.
PETER JOSEPH
Editorial Director
Peter Joseph is an Editor at Thomas Dunne Books. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
CHELSEA BAUCH
Editor
KAREN RUDNICKI
Associate Nonfiction Editor
Karen Rudnicki is a graduate of Boston University and a former literary agent. She is fascinated by lost masterpieces, chief among them the Vermeers stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Simon Dubnow's missing volume from his History of The Jews, still buried somewhere in the Riga ghetto.
And LOST thanks the following retired staffers, whose work can be found within these pages: Sarah Moriarty (fiction editorial), Allison Walker (web), and Megan Smith (managing editorial).
IVY POCHODA
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 35—37
Ivy Pochoda (
www.ivypochoda.com) grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a house filled with books. In high school she fell in love with playwriting, poetry, and classical languages. She attended Harvard University, where she studied classical Greek.
In 1999, she moved to Amsterdam, where she got lost for six years among the narrow streets and misleading canals. While there, she worked a number of different jobs and began to write
The Art of Disappearing, which will be published by St. Martin's Press on September 15, 2009.
She was the writer in residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut from February to August 2009.
ABBY FRUCHT
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 31—33
Abby Frucht is the winner of a New Voices Award from Quality Paperback Bookclub, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. Abby Frucht has published five novels and a collection of stories, and has work appearing recently in magazines in print and online, including
Narrative,
Salon, and Dzanc Book's Best of the Web 2008. She lives in Wisconsin, and has served as mentor and advisor for 15 years at the newly independent Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has lost many things of all different kinds — earrings, confidence, love, dogs, contests, dollars, trust, patience, time, friends, sandals, and sleep — but has found three stories to share with you. Her work,
The Inheritance, appeared in Issue 30 of LOST Magazine.
ANDREW PYPER
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 26—28
Andrew Pyper is the author of four novels — Lost Girls, The Trade Mission, The Wildfire Season and The Killing Circle — as well as Kiss Me, a collection of stories.
NATALIE DANFORD
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 19, 21, 22
Natalie Danford graduated from Yale University and received her MFA in fiction from New York University. Her articles and reviews have appeared in People, Health, Pages, Paste, Eating Well, Salon, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She is series co-editor for Best New American Voices, an annual anthology published by Harvest/Harcourt that showcases emerging writers of fiction, and an accomplished translator of Italian.
She lives in New York City.
Natalie's first novel, Inheritance, was published by St. Martin's in January 2007.
MICHELLE WILDGEN
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 15, 17, 18
Michelle Wildgen's debut novel,
You're Not You, was one of
People Magazine's Top Ten Books of 2006 and will be available in paperback in August 2007. She is the editor of the anthology
Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast, and her work has appeared in
The New York Times,
Best New American Voices 2004,
Best Food Writing 2004,
TriQuarterly,
StoryQuarterly,
Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at
Tin House Magazine and editor at Tin House Books.
PAULS TOUTONGHI
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 12—14
Pauls Toutonghi was born in
Seattle, Washington, on July 4, 1976. His fiction has appeared in
Zoetrope: All-Story,
One Story Magazine,
The Boston Review,
Glimmer Train,
Book Magazine,
Terminus, and other small periodicals. He received a Pushcart Prize for his short story, "Regeneration," which appeared in
The Boston Review in 2000. His first novel,
Red Weather, was published by Random House in 2006. It has been receiving good
reviews in periodicals across the country.
NICHOLAS MONTEMARANO
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 8—10
Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the short-story collection If the Sky Falls (2005) and the novel A Fine Place (2002). His fiction has been published in Esquire, Zoetrope, DoubleTake, Agni, The Antioch Review, Fence, and many other magazines. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. He teaches at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A new novel, The Book of Why, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.
PETER ORNER
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 4—6
Peter Orner is the author of Esther Stories, winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Best American Stories. His new novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, was published in April 2006.
ROBLEY WILSON
Guest Fiction Editor, Issues 1—3
Robley Wilson was for some 30 years the editor of the North American Review, a literary quarterly that was four times a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and which twice won the award. Now he is a novelist (Splendid Omens, The World Still Melting) and short-story writer (The Book of Lost Fathers) living in Florida with his wife, Susan Hubbard, and their six cats.
