OUR TEAM
Erik Harper Klass (founder, owner) has published stories in a variety of journals, including New England Review, Ninth Letter, The Baltimore Review, South Carolina Review, Cola Literary Review (Yemassee), Summerset Review, Slippery Elm, and many others. His novella Polish Poets in Beds with Girls is now available from Buttonhook Press, and he has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes.
As an editor, he has worked with dozens of professional writers, including Erin Rose Belair (Glimmer Train, Narrative, Greensboro Review, Juked), Dvora Rabino (The Lascaux Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, Best of the Net nominee), Dominica Phetteplace (Zyzzyva, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, multiple Pushcart Prizes), and many more. Stories and essays he's edited have appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Southern Indiana Review, Los Angeles Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Summerset Review, Blood Orange Review, Saranac Review, New Pop Lit, and way too many others to list here. He writes and edits in Los Angeles.​
Christine Williams reads, scores, and submits clients’ work (plus about a million other things). She is a seasoned communications professional with significant writing, submitting, and editing experience. (She's one of Erik’s favorite editors, handling much of his own work.) Her creative nonfiction has been published in Glint Literary Journal, Concho River Review, Boudin (The McNeese Review online), and elsewhere.
Christine has a bachelor’s degree in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in International Conflict Resolution from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She lives in Alameda, California, with her mom, Ann, and her high-maintenance kitty, Wolfgang.
Josie Cameron received a dual MFA in Poetry and Fiction from the University of Notre Dame. Her latest poetry is forthcoming in Meter (Scientific American), and she recently published four novels with Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Among other accolades, Josie’s work has been awarded two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.
Josie has over fifteen years of experience editing, coaching, and teaching poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She got her start as Instructor of Creative Writing: Poetry 202 at Notre Dame and has since edited and coached many professional writers including Shana Youngdahl (RHINO Poetry, The Journal, Juked, SFASU Press, Miel Books, Penguin Random House), Ann Braden (Sky Pony Press, Penguin Random House), and Anna Vodicka (Brevity, Guernica, Harvard Review, AFAR, McSweeney’s). She lives in Maine.