ZinkStaff
Susan
Taylor Chehak, ZinkVille Executive Editor,
is
a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and the author of five novels, including Smithereens (a Hammett Award
nominee), The Truth About Annie D. (an Edgar Award nominee and New
York Times Notable Book), and Harmony (a Literary Guild Editor's
Choice), as well as a book of nonfiction, Don Quixote Meets the Mob: The
Craft of Fiction and the Art of Life. Her
short stories have appeared in The Chariton Review,
Sisters in Crime 5, and L.A. Under The Influence.
She teaches fiction writing
in
The UCLA Extension Writers' Program,
as well as in the low residency MFA program at
Antioch University,
Los Angeles and the
Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. Susan grew up in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lived for many years in Los Angeles, spends as much time as
possible in Colorado, and is now residing in Toronto.
Tom
Chehak, ZinkVille Executive Producer, has been a television writer and producer in Los Angeles since 1978, when he took his
first staff job as a story editor on WKRP in Cincinnati during its
first year run. A vested member of the Writers' Guild of America, West, he has
written, produced, and directed both half-hour comedies and hour dramas,
including The Tony Randall Show, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Hunter, Crazy
Like a Fox, Alien Nation, The Oldest Rookie, Key West, The Adventures of
Brisco County, Jr., and Diagnosis Murder. He currently
Executive Producer of
ReGenesis
for Shaftesbury Films, Inc., in Toronto.
Marilyn
L. Taylor, ZinkZine Poetry Editor, teaches poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, both in
the English Department and for the university’s Honors Program.
She also leads poetry workshops at the Woodland Pattern Book Center on a
regular basis. Marilyn is the author of two full-length poetry collections and two chapbooks.
Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and
journals, including Poetry, (where
one of her poems from the August issue was recently featured on their website), The American Scholar, Iris, Smartish Pace, and The Formalist—as well as several anthologies, including most
recently the Academy of American Poets’ latest one, called “New Voices”
— and Poetry Magazine’s brand new 90th Anniversary Anthology.
Her work will be featured in two
European collections next year, for which her poems are being translated into
both German and Russian.
