Dan Brady


is the poetry editor of Barrelhouse and the former editor of American Poet, the Journal of the Academy of American Poets. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in BlazeVox, Beltway Quarterly, Specs, and Circumference.

Mike Ingram


is one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, and teaches writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, his short fiction has appeared, most recently, in EPOCH, The Southeast Review and What Happened to Us These Last Few Years: An Anthology of Effect (So New Media Press).

Dave Housley


Dave Housley's collection of short fiction, Ryan Seacrest is Famous, was published in 2007 by Impetus Press. His work has appeared or is coming soon in Beloit Fiction Journal, the Collagist, Nerve, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, and some other places. He’s one of the founding editors and fiction editors and all-around do-stuff people at Barrelhouse.

Reb Livingston


Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel (No Tell Books, 2010),Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007), and co-editor of The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel anthology series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Best American Poetry 2006, the American Poetry Review, ActionYes, Absent, and CUE. She's also the editor of No Tell Motel and publisher of No Tell Books. She blogs at reblivingston.blogspot.com.

Laura Ellen Scott


Laura Ellen Scott has stories in or coming from Barrelhouse, Juked, JMWW, Northville Review, Ploughshares, Storyglossia and others.