Art: “Crowned by Nature” by Chris Rivera, @chris.rivera.

Editor and Art Director:
JL Jacobs, MFA, Brown University, is the author of four volumes of poetry. Work has appeared in numerous journals including Ploughshares, New American Writing, Ariel Chart, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, and New Orleans Review. Representative work is anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation, Carnegie Mellon UP. She was a 2017 nominee for Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. She studied with C.D. Wright, John Yau, and Keith Waldrop at Brown, and has continued a mixed-media artist practice from teaching Poetry&Image at Brown Learning Community to offering mixed-media workshops at OKC Literary Festivals. She has offered her work from Coffeehouse Exhibits to Deep Step Come Shining with C.D. Wright & Deborah Luster, Poet’s Theatre, NYC.

Books include:

Streets as Elsewhere
Dream Songs
The Leaves in Her Shoes
                                                     Varieties of Inflorescence

Prose Editor: 

John L. Stanizzi is author of the full-length collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, and Chants.  His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Life in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, Connecticut River Review, Hawk & Handsaw, and many others.  Stanizzi has been translated into Italian and appeared in El Ghibli, in the Journal of Italian Translations Bonafinni, and Poetarium Silva.  His translator is Angela D’Ambra.  He has read and venues all over New England, including the Mystic Arts Café, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Hartford Stage, and many others.  He Stanizzi is the coordinator of the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition for Young Poets at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT, and a teaching artist for the national recitation contest, Poetry Out Loud.  A former New England Poet of the Year, named by the New England Association of Teachers of English, Stanizzi teaches literature at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT and he lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry.

Intern: 

Mikul Wyer is an Indian-American student from Hong Kong currently studying at The Seven Hills School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to AbstractMagazine TV, he edits for Polyphony Lit and is an executive editor at Mollusk Literary Magazine. His work has been recognized by the Cincinnati Overture Awards and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 

Abstract Magazine contents prior to August 1, 2017 and, herein contained, were the product of Executive Editor, Cutter Streeby; Editor, Jeff Streeby; Art Director, JL Jacobs; Production & Article Editor, Gretchen Bundy; Contributing Editor, Pamelyn Casto; Production Editor, Tim Bennett

Abstract Magazine TV was founded by S. Jolly in 2016.