Founders

Essay Press was founded in 2006 by Eula Biss, Stephen Cope and Catherine Taylor. An account of Essay’s early history can be found here.

 Editors

	Cristiana Baik‘s work has been published in Apogee Journal, Drunken Boat, Boston Review and other publications. Letter Machine Book of Interviews, which she co-assembled and co-edited with Andy Fitch, will be released in 2015. She works at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she manages institutional giving.
	Andy Fitch’s most recent books are Sixty Morning Walks, Sixty Morning Talks and (with Amaranth Borsuk) As We Know. Ugly Duckling soon will release his ebook Sixty Morning Wlaks. With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has dialogic books forthcoming from 1913 Press and Nightboat Books. He teaches in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program.
	Aimee Harrison is a poet and visual artist living in Cambridge, MA. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as the Lifted Brow,Indefinite Space, and Tryptyk Magazin. She is a Cofounding Editor of Small Po[r]tions Journal.
	Ryan Ikeda writes poetry and lives in Oakland, CA, near where he studies Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley.
	Christopher Liek is a senior creative writing student at Susquehanna University.  He’s from York, Pennsylvania.  He writes both  fiction and nonfiction and is currently working on a chapbook of mixed genre flash pieces.
	Courtney Mandryk is a writer and artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poetry has recently appeared in journals such as the Adirondack Review, box of jars and Epiphany. In addition to being one of the editors at Essay Press, Courtney also designs all book materials and typeface.
	Victoria A. Sanz is a poet from Miami, FL. She is currently an MFA candidate at New York University.
	Ryan Spooner is the author of Regret (The Lettered Streets Press, 2014). His essays have appeared in Ghost Proposal, South Loop Review andCutBank, whose Big Fish Lyric Essay contest he won in 2011. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing and literature.