Who We Are

Rebecca George

Rebecca is a writer, editor, thinker, and general rebel rouser.  Originally from Chicago, Rebecca has collected too many degrees and not enough money.  She is the founder of LinchPin, former managing editor of Bombay Gin and generally a coordinator and organizer of the universe.  She can be reached at linchpinpress@gmail.com

Martin Bihl

Martin Bihl’s work has appeared in a variety of publications around the world. you can follow some of his output at instate.wordpress.com and americanarchaeology.wordpress.com.

Travis Cebula

Travis Cebula is the editor and founder of Shadow Mountain Press and is also excited about assisting as a poetry editor at Monkey Puzzle.  He holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, as well as a BA in Philosophy, English, and Political Science from Colorado State University.  His poems, photographs, essays, and stories have been published internationally in various print and on-line journals. Monkey Puzzle Press released his first collection of poetry and photography, Some Exits, in 2009. Two other chapbooks, Some Colors Will Touch Regardless and Jamaica, are forthcoming from Fact-Simile Editions and Bedouin Books, respectively.

Meredith Clark

Meredith Clark is a freelance writer and mercenary fact-checker who currently lives in New York City.  When not providing accuracy control for various magazines,  she blogs at Thighs of Darkness and dreams of a world full of journalistic integrity.

Nancy Conger

Nancy received her MFA from Naropa University. Finally, she was published, at Opium Magazine online. She has lived in Minneapolis, Chicago, Rome, Boulder, and is now entering a brief period of respite in Durham, NC. She has a blog site but never uses it. When that changes she will post the address here.
She enjoys pencils but always writes in pen.

Jen Marie Davis

JenMarie Davis co-publishes Fact-Simile Editions, writes stuff down, and makes books  in Santa Fe, NM. She also walks around, cooks a lot and listens to indie electronic folk while doing all of the above.

Megan DiBello

Born in New York, Megan is currently attending Naropa University for an MFA in Writing & Poetics.  She received her BA in Communication Arts and Creative Writing from Marymount Manhattan College. Megan is the Marketing Assistant for Monkey Puzzle Press and is also the Treasurer for the Artists’ Guild of Boulder. She has been published in Symposium, Fact-Simile Magazine, The Bathroom, and the forthcoming debut issue of Flaneur Foundry.

Shane Jimenez

Nate Jordon

Nate founded Monkey Puzzle in 2007.  He’s the Chief Editor, Designer, and Creative Director behind Monkey Puzzle – affectionately referred to as the “Monkey-in-Chief.”  Nate holds a BA in English from California State University, Fresno and an MFA in Writing & Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Naropa University.  His poetry and prose appear in various periodicals and journals.

Marie Larson

Formerly the Director of Marketing at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Marie Larson is now a MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in GAM, Fell Swoop, DIAGRAM, Shampoo and Bombay Gin. She has work forthcoming in the anthology Chicken Boa: Notes on Skrilla (Mitzvah Chaps) and Fact-Simile.

Alexandra Lukens

Alexandra Lukens is the inadvertent product of I-95 and a rickety semi-truck transporting turkey basters. She is the creator and editor of Flaneur Foundry Arts Journal, based out of New York City. She previously attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and has since been studying creative writing and literature at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Monkey Puzzle Magazine, Thee Beehive Online Literary Journal, and the newly released Fast Forward Flash Fiction Volume 2. She has a cat named Greasy and they sleep together in Brooklyn.

Sara Nolan

sara nolan drinks jasmine tea bitter.  she often wonders about things that are close to the line.  she thinks the italians got at least one thing right which had to do with the essential elixir of garlic, olive oil, greens, fresh bread, and the consequences of the grape.  she doesn’t always write bios about food but this morning it is raining, and the lake is quiet, and the eyes are full.

Rusty Ralston

Rusty Ralston Photography

Bradley Sands

Bradley Sands lives in Boulder, Colorado. He wrote the novel, It Came from Below the Belt.  He edits the journal, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens. He is an MFA candidate in Writing and Poetics at Naropa University.  Visit him at www.bradleysands.com

Kelly Sexton

Kelly Sexton holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, is the former poetry editor for Bombay Gin, cofounder of the Pump House Regional Arts Center Reading Series, and lover of asparagus.  She has been published in Monkey Puzzle, Touchstone, Apothecary, Species, and other journals and zines associated with monkeys.  She is currently trapped in your computer.

Mitch Shenassa

Mitch is a writer of paranoid splatter-noir with a literary bent and a fanatical vendetta against tame prose.  Originally from Dirty Jersey, now living in Boulder, Colorado, he has published two chapbooks of short fiction and is currently hammering the final nails into the coffin of his first novel.

Nancy Stohlman

Nancy Stohlman’s first book, Live From Palestine (South End Press) was nominated for a Colorado Book Award in 2004. Her work has appeared in Trickhouse, Alice Blue, Fast Forward, FM Magazine, Resist, The Bathroom, Zero Ducats, Monkey Puzzle, Snowline Poetry Journal, and in the journal Anything, Anymore, Anytime in Scotland, among others. Her novel, Searching for Suzi, is forthcoming in 2009 from Monkey Puzzle Press.

Matt Wise