Joanna Topor MacKenzie : Co-Editor
Joanna Topor MacKenzie is an Associate Agent with Browne & Miller Literary Associates. When she’s not busy editing client manuscripts and non-fiction book projects, submitting manuscripts to editors at major New York publishing houses and managing subsidiary rights for the agency, she writes screenplays and contributes widely to local publications. She successfully optioned a TV pilot set in the New York art world (which quickly got lost in the development abyss) and her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Newcity, Venus and EGO Magazine among others. Joanna is also a Co-Editor of the literary podcast "The Parlor."
Caroline Picard : Co-Editor
Caroline Picard is the Founding Director of 501(c)3 Green Lantern Gallery & Press, Director of Publications at ThreeWalls, and Co-Editor of a new literary podcast called "The Parlor." She is currently pursuing her MFAW at The School of the Art Institute. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including The Philadelphia Independent, Newcity, Lumpen, AREA Chicago and she has a forthcoming essay in Chicago Art Journal Review.
Chaz Reetz-Laiolo : Co-Editor
Chaz Reetz-Laiolo is a story writer and essayist. Nominated for Best New American Voices 2006, his work can be found most recently in Fourteen Hills Review, Front Porch, Folio, Quarterly West, The Harvard Reivew and SOMA. He lives in California with his daughter, Isa.
Shannon Stratton : Artistic Ambassador or Centerfold Curator
Shannon Stratton is Director and Chief Curator of ThreeWalls which she co-founded in 2003 with Jonathan Rhodes, Jeff M. Ward and Sonia Yoon. Outside of this project, she contributes to the arts community through a freelance curating, writing and teaching practice, and when away from her laptop, is lost in her small garden or learning how to surf on beach far away from Chicago.