Adirondack Review Staff

Colleen Marie Ryor holds a B.A. in German from the State University of New York at Saratoga Springs, Empire State College. Some of her favorite modern writers include John Cheever, Heinrich Böll, and Raymond Carver. She has been playing the cello for fourteen years and was once in a band called Alice & the Goons. She lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Kara Christenson is a graduate of Albion College, where she majored in English and German. She completed a 2,175 mile through-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2007 and is glad to take up more restful pursuits, like editing fiction for The Adirondack Review. Kara lives in Portland, Oregon, where she can be outside on sunny days and read on rainy ones.

Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, translator, critic, and editor born of Sicilian and German parentage in Langenthal (Canton of Berne). His individual poems, essays, and reviews, as well as his translations from the German by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Georg Trakl, have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies worldwide, including Absinthe: New European Writing, ARCH, The Baltimore Review, The Cortland Review, Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Italian Americana, The Mailer Review, and 32 Poems Magazine. His next books, The Oldest Hands in the World (a collection of poems), The Possible Is Monstrous: Selected Poems by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and The Collected Works of Georg Trakl, are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, New York. Pantano has taught at the University of South Florida and served as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Florida Southern College. He divides his time between Switzerland, the United States, and England, where he’s Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. For more information, please visit www.danielepantano.ch.

George Fitting is the poetry intern for The Adirondack Review and Associate Editor of Birr Magazine. He is class of 2010 at Dickinson College, majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing, with concentrations in both Poetry and Fiction. Besides writing (and reading), he enjoys playing his trumpet, trying to play his didgeridoo, discussing the nature of existence, and referring to himself in the third person. He lives in Northwestern Connecticut with two parents, one grandmother, and a cat.