Gloom Cupboard

Poetry Editor 
Luis Albert Rivas is from Van Nuys, California. He started writing sometime in high school, mainly poetry. He got more into literature after reading stuff like Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. At community college, he gravitated toward Journalism and even enjoyed a brief stint on the school’s newspaper, but found it too difficult to write about things that did not interest him in the least. He is currently back in college studying journalism. Luis believes in many things but most importantly the need to help others using whatever talents or skills one possesses (And yes, he is a card-carrying member of the Communist Party). He is currently living in Echo Park with his girlfriend and their cats and half-a-dozen outdoor stray cats. He is planning on putting together two books some time in the near future, a collection of poems and a collection of short stories. That’s about it for now.

Fiction Editor
Allie Dresser is a born and bred New Englander who lives much closer to civilization now.  She has an English and Psychology degree from Rutgers and went to Bread Loaf at Middlebury one summer to study poetry and sci-fi writing.  She believes that no one is too young or too old to start writing well.  She appreciates the writings of James Michener, Isaac Asimov, Stan Lee, and modern day poets such as Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen.

Assistant Fiction Editor

Joseph M. Gant is the author of Zero Division, an obscenely large collection of beautiful and brutal poems, published by Rebel Satori Press. A one time poetry editor for Gloom Cupboard, Joseph lives in the Philadelphia area where he blows glass, raises two kids, and suffers through the writing of his next book, Stereo Instructions. His cats, Cinnamon and Nutmeg, are telekinetic beasts with their own gravitational curves.

Non-Fiction Editor
Meghan K. Barnes is a twenty-something assistant professor of English.  She resides pretty far south, in a small house with her giant Rottweiler, Zen Michael. Her work has been featured in multiple anthologies including: So Long, Writers Block, Yes! We Can, and Thoreau’s Rooster. She has been featured in multiple national and international magazines, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction. Her first memoir, For the Love of God, will be out this December.  Please visit http://meghankbarnes.com/ for more information.  Or follow me @MeghanKBarnes

Editors-in-Chief 
Lena Vanelslander swam many waters. History, Comparative Culture Analysis, Languages, it all pertained to her study. Selfstudy however remained the most important thing…Mythology, Literature, Poetry, too many to sum up. After a life of tribulations the turning point came in her mid twenties: she started to write actively poetry in English. Her melancholic and darkminded nature colour her poems to an individual signature in both time and space. Several poems got published in the Stray Branch, Negative Suck, Savage Manners, Disenthralled and also in the Delinquent and The Sylvan Echo. Her first book of poetry, written with Marilyn Campiz, Quills of Fire, appeared in November 2009. For the moment she’s also a steady contributor for Contemporary Literary Horizon.

T. M. De Vos is a lover of sad languages, independent republics, and unmarketable skills. She joined hands with Gloom Cupboard shortly after her poem, “Quarantine,” was published in Issue #124.  Her poems, which have been described as “dark and sickening,” have appeared in Hawaii Pacific Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pedestal, Quiddity, the Los Angeles Review, Caper Journal, Sakura Review, Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly, and the Saint Ann’s Review, to name a few.  Her short stories, which have not yet been compellingly described, have appeared in HOBART, Prime Number Magazine, the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette,  Global City Review, Whistling Fire, Dossier Journal, and Dark Sky Magazine. Her poetry collection, The Dimestore World, is forthcoming from Patasola Press. She is working on her first novel.

Alan Garvey was born in Dublin in 1975.  His three collections of poetry, Herself in Air (2006), Learning to Crawl (2008) and Terror Háza (2009) have all been published by Lapwing Publications (Belfast).  His work has been published in magazines such as Crannóg, Revival, The Raintown Review, and The Stinging Fly; and in anthologies such as The March Hare Anthology, published by Breakwater Books and The Echoing Years, an anthology of poetry from Canada and Ireland.  He has poems and translations of his work forthcoming in Cuadrivio, protestpoems.org, The American Dissident and The Moth.  He worked as an arts administrator, part-time lecturer and community arts facilitator before becoming a full-time father and writer.  He published three chapbooks of his own poetry and two anthologies of others’ poetry and stories (Unpublished and Sticky Orchard).  He graduated with a MA in Creative Writing from WIT; has read in Toronto and Newfoundland, and worked in Budapest, courtesy of the Irish Arts Council.  He is working on his fourth collection / new & selected poems (whichever comes first).

Co-Editors
Amber Bromer: Poetry Talent Scout

Jason Lee Miller: Reviewer
By day, Jason Lee Miller is a technical writer/editor and English composition instructor at Eastern Kentucky University. By night, early mornings, and weekends he is a blogger, fiction writer, essayist, poet, and now, book reviewer. Mr. Miller holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Writing Fiction from Spalding University, a Poets&Writers magazine top-ten MFA program school. A former journalist on an international stage, his articles have been cited or linked to by the New York Times, the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, CNet-News.com, and textbooks published in the US and Canada. His articles, essays, and poetry have appeared in Ontologica, the Bluegrass Accolade, and the Eurasia Critic.

Credit to Those Who Deserve It
Richard Wink (Previous Editor-in-Chief and creator of Gloom Cupboard)
Dorla Moorehouse (Previous Poetry Editor)
Stuart Sharp (Previous Fiction Editor)
Greg Oguss (Editor)
Jude Dillon (Co-Editor)
Joseph M. Gant (Previous Poetry Editor)