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Managing Editor, Sunny Woan
ISSUE 15 | SPRING 2013
EDITOR BIOS
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 fashion designer and has launched her own
label, Taryn Zhang, a line of briefcases and handbags for working women.
Fiction Editor, 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.
Poetry Editor, Eugenia Leigh
Eugenia Leigh is the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books,
2014), which was a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of
Younger Poets. She is a Kundiman fellow, and her poems and essays have appeared
in several publications including North American Review, The Collagist, PANK
Magazine and the Best New Poets anthology. A recipient of multiple Pushcart
nominations and poetry awards from Rattle and Poets & Writers Magazine, Eugenia
received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, through which she taught
writing workshops for high school students and incarcerated youths. Born in Chicago
and raised in southern California, Eugenia currently lives in New York City, where
she believes in miracles.
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