Matthew Limpede lives near Dallas, Texas and has been the editor of Carve since 2007. He loves traveling and hates cold weather. You can learn more about him and his passion for fiction at matthewlimpede.com.

Managing Editor

Kristin S. vanNamen, PhD is a writer, scholar, and teacher from Austin, Texas. She enjoys fiction that contains flawed characters and strong aesthetic patterns.

Readers

Leah Pearl Saffian continues to work in the education field, write and live in north Texas, with her dog, Sweetie. She is currently in the perpetual process of breaking down and attempting to reconstruct reality.

Monica Hays is a content strategist and fiction writer living in Philadelphia. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she hopes to become a master of the arts.

Meghan Rennie is a writer, designer, and student of many things. During the day, she designs online experiences and writes copy for Agency.com. A wife and mother, she is also a grad student in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Alyssa Cooper is a writer, burlesque performer, mother, and secret agent girl living in the rural underground of Dallas outskirts. Her fiction has been published and awarded, and she is currently at work on memoirs and short stories. Follow her fiction babble and striptease musings on Twitter.

Adil Malik is currently a full-time student looking to major in Biology and become a pharmacist. He has lived in Texas his whole life except for a year in England.

Desirée Ward lives and writes in Austin, Texas. In her graduate studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, her areas of focus were Literature and Creative Writing. She's working on a collection of short stories and a novel.

Rita Juster received an MFA in Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte in January 2010. Her short stories have appeared in her friends' mailboxes and can be found in desk drawers and file cabinets throughout her home in Dallas. She also has an MBA from the University of Dallas and co-directs Common Cents, a local non-profit that sponsors student-driven philanthropy.

Michele Buford lives, loves, works, and writes in Dallas, but not always in this order. She is currently working on a novel.

Timothy Hayden is a former United States Marine who is best described as a high-tech redneck. His I.T. career is contradicted by his hobbies of 4-wheelin', fishing, and firearms. His writing interest began as a result of a very special college English professor.

Susan Blick is a poet and non-fiction writer. She admires stories that are rooted in truth and personal narratives that begin universal conversations.

Callie Bentley is a writer, reader, editor, teacher, and collector of experiences. She earned her English degree from the University of Dallas in 2003 and is currently working toward completing her first novel. She edits continuing education courses for insurance agents in order to keep food on the table and in the mouths of her five cats, one dog, and boyfriend of seven years.

We're writers or lovers of literature first and foremost. That's why we like to think our magazine is a bit more special than other 'zines out there. So many lit mags either have a revolving door of editors and readers, or cloak their staff in a shroud of secrecy.

Not us. This is who we are: goofy, passionate, and dedicated, all rolled into one. So we hope you forgive our campy pictures and know that we mean it in good spirit. We just want you to know that we're real people, too.