Meet the Editors

Barbara Jacksha

Barbara Jacksha is a freelance writer, former editor at the literary journal flashquake, and an editor and co-founder of Cezanne's Carrot. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Beloit Fiction Journal, Margin, The Summerset Review, Mad Hatter's Review, Peregrine, Mindprints, Carve Magazine, Poetry Midwest, Tattoo Highway, Talking Stick, Smokelong Quarterly, Vox, and Quercus Review. Her story "Geometry Can Fail Us" appears in the 2006 W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. Barbara's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her screenplay, Lac Mirage, recently won the 2005 Southwest Writers national screenwriting competition. Barbara lives in a semi-rural area near Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more information, visit Barbara's website: www.barbarajacksha.com
or email her at barbara@cezannescarrot.org.

Joan Kremer

Joan Kremer has worked as a professional writer and editor for more than 30 years, with numerous nonfiction publications, including a regional history book forthcoming in 2006. She also has extensive experience editing print-based newspapers and magazines. She has written short stories, poetry, and is on the third draft of a mainstream novel. Her poetry has won several awards and last year was published in Gin Bender Review. Her short stories have been published this year in Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Beginnings, and Long Story Short. She lives in western Wisconsin in a rural town that has become a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minnesota. For more information, visit Joan's website at www.joankremer.com
or email her at joan@cezannescarrot.org.