The Staff at Cooper Dillon
Publisher and Editor Adam Deutsch was born on Long Island, New York and has his M.A. from Hofstra University (2005) and M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008). He has been on the editorial staff of a number of presses and journals, including Ninth Letter and Barn Owl Review. Adam has been interviewed and has written about publishing at Fringe Magazine, Quarterly Conversation, & diode. He presently teaches at community college, and keeps a fairly active blog over at adamdeutsch.blogspot.com. He lives in San Diego.
Assistant Editor Taylor Mardis Katz lives in San Diego, California, where she is pursuing her MFA in poetry at San Diego State University. She is a proud graduate of Connecticut College and a native of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Since graduating college she has lived in Cape Cod, Vermont, and various guest bedrooms and hostels around western Europe. Taylor's favorite accessory is the felt-tipped pen and she has zero interest in skydiving.
Art Director Max Xiantu practices visual art and music in New York. Experienced in painting, sculpture, tattooing, graffiti, macrame, decoupage and whittling, he has worked as an artist and designer for more than a decade. Visit maxxiantu.com to see his art and hear his music.
Founder Colleen Ryor is a native upstate New Yorker who has lived in Germany, England, and France. She holds a B.A. in foreign languages from the State University of New York at Saratoga Springs, Empire State College. Colleen founded on-line literary magazine The Adirondack Review in the year 2000. She teaches German and lives in upstate New York.