CURATORS
SUZANNE RUSSO hails from San Francisco and was on Litquake’s executive committee for two years before moving to New York to pursue her MA in English at New York University. She’s now finished with school and working as a freelance writer focusing mostly on travel. Read about her travel mishaps and other musings on her blog, Around the World in Gold Stilettos.
TODD ZUNIGA is the founding editor of Opium Magazine, co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series, and co-curator of Lit Crawl NYC. With his second novel in submission, he’s now at work on the tentatively titled Passport, a non-fiction collection about memory and home that covers 18 countries.
EXECUTIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE
MARTIN R. BIRO is a native of Northern California and a graduate of The University of Iowa. A former intern for The Iowa Review, Interview Magazine, and Grove/Atlantic, he currently works in the publishing industry as an editorial assistant, and resides in New York City.
JENNIFER CLOUD, a Colorado native, has spent the past three years promoting museum exhibits, non-profit organizations and technology companies in New York and San Francisco, and is excited to add “spreading literary arts like wildfire” to her repertoire. Her hobby is compiling a stash of essays and stories, yet to be seen by the public.
KARI HOERCHLER has scribed stories for EuroCheapo.com, HX magazine and The Maneater, in between sounding off screaming Sirens. Most recently, she has been spotted on Wall Street proofreading legal briefs the size of Delaware, when they’re not the size of the Cayman Islands.



