Stephen Reichert
Editor & Founder
Stephen Reichert lives in Baltimore and founded Smartish Pace in 1998. He has a degree in philosophy from Trinity College (IL) and law from the University of Maryland. He paints and plays in Mr. Moccasin with SPer Jared Fischer, and in an unnamed band with Christopher Dunn & SPer Clare Banks.
Daniel Todd
Senior Editor
Daniel Todd is a GED Instructor at the Hamilton County Courthouse. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and three children, and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1998.
Dan Cryer
Associate Editor
Dan Cryer lives in Albuquerque and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1999. He's a grad student in UNM's Rhetoric and Writing program, where he teaches composition and technical writing, and coordinates events for the Writing Across Communities initiative.
Clare Banks
Associate Editor
Clare Banks lives in Baltimore and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2000.
Traci O'Dea
Associate Editor
Traci O'Dea lives in the Virgin Islands and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2003. Highlights of her career as an associate editor include publishing new poems by Medbh McGuckian, procuring new translations by John Hollander, co-founding and judging the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, organizing the issue release parties, and, of course, co-hosting the AWP event at the TravelLodge Atlanta.
Kristin Lindholm
Assistant Editor
Kristin Lindholm is an Associate Professor of Communication at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. She regularly directs plays, oversees Trinity’s annual Fine Arts Festival, and provides consultation for The Trillium, Trinity’s fine arts journal. Kristin’s current research projects focus on how people communicate in the context of illness and death, particularly in hospice programs. She has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1999.
Sam R. McColl
Assistant Editor
Sam R. McColl holds a Master's Degree in English from the University of Maryland. He works as a curriculum developer for a not-for-profit educational research foundation, lives in Nashville, and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1999.
Clifford Williams
Assistant Editor
Clifford Williams teaches philosophy at Trinity College in Deerfield, IL. He is the faculty advisor for the college's arts journal and has published articles in professional philosophy journals plus a number of books, including Free Will and Determinism: A Dialogue (Hackett, 1980), Singleness of Heart: Restoring the Divided Soul (Eerdmans, 2004), and One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes (Indiana University Press, 2003). He has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1999.
Freeman Rogers
Assistant Editor
Freeman Rogers lives in the Virgin Islands and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2004.
Jared Fischer
Assistant Editor
Jared T. Fischer lives in Baltimore and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2005. He is a journalist who frequently contributes to the Baltimore City Paper, b the paper, and Metromix. He also writes fiction and poetry—much of which he posts on rainbowkolor.blogspot.com—and composes music for the punk/folk band Mr. Moccasin. Additionally, his vocal and musical talents were embodied by the spaced-out mule in the TV series Creature Comforts US created by Aardman Animations, of Wallace and Gromit fame.
John Martin
Assistant Editor
John Martin lives in New York City and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2006.
Jake Ricafrente
Assistant Editor
Jake Ricafrente resides in Richmond, TX, and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2006. He holds an MFA from The Johns Hopkins University and is completing doctoral work at Texas Tech University as a Chancellor's Fellow. Each summer, he serves on the staff at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Paul Armstrong
Webmaster, Designer
Paul Armstrong lives in Cincinnati and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 1999. He designed all three Smartish Pace websites (versions: 1998, 2002, 2008).
Diane Banks
Director of Development
Diane Banks lives in Nashville and has been a member of Smartish Pace since 2005. She holds a Ph.D in religion from Vanderbilt and her book Writing the History of Israel was published in 2006. Diane has secured grants from the Maryland State Arts Council for the support of Smartish Pace poetry readings held at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Baltimore and The Walters Art Museum.
Deena M. Biengardo
Intern
Deena M. Biengardo is a writer living in New York. She is pursuing a degree in Cultural Studies and is a 2009 intern for Smartish Pace.
Sara Cooper
Intern
Sara Cooper is a Junior at Goucher College majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing, and minoring in philosophy.
Zoey Friedman
Intern
Zoey Friedman is a senior at Johns Hopkins University majoring in the writing seminars.
A.K. Huseby
Intern
A. K. Huseby’s poetry has been published in Pearl, Albion, and anthologized by Atlanta Review. She has an English degree from Washington State University and will be pursuing a dual Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies. Her publishing career includes serving as Editor-in-Chief for the Salmon Creek Journal.
Julia Leverone
Intern
Julia Leverone is in the University of Maryland’s MFA program. She writes and translates poetry, and graduated from Tufts in 2009 with a bachelor’s in Spanish. Julia lives in Mt. Rainier, MD.
Kimberly Murphy-McColl
FORMER Assistant Editor
Kimberly McColl lives in Nashville and was a member of Smartish Pace from 2001 to 2004.
Corliss Skicki
FORMER Assistant Editor
Corliss Skicki lives in Raleigh and was a member of Smartish Pace from 1999 to 2008.
