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Orchid's Executive Editors
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Keith Hood is founder and director of Critical Connection Fiction Workshops, a nonprofit organization devoted to development and promotion of new and emerging fiction writers. One of his short stories appeared in a recent issue of Blue Mesa Review and he has fiction forthcoming in Quick Fiction . Keith has received awards and fellowships from the Indiana University Writers Conference, Cranbrook Writers Retreat for Writers, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Keith's photograpy has been published in Ontario Review and been exhibited in juried shows at the Michigan Photography Exhibit and the Toledo Museum of Art.
Keith also serves on the board of directors of 826 Michigan, a nonprofit writing center designed to help students aged 6-18 develop their writing skills. Checkout the 826 Michigan web site at www.826michigan.org
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Amy Sumerton's fiction can most recently be found in Current and MOMENT magazine, and in the May 2004 editon of Red Cedar Review. She also has a creative nonfiction piece forthcoming in Red Cedar Review. In 1999 she received her B.A. from Michigan State University where she was recipient of the Swarthout Award for Fiction. Amy has been a radio DJ, book editor, house painter, marketing manager, and a nanny. She also plays cello in a great band named Canada. Check out Canada's music at www.myspace.com/canada
Amy currently makes a living as Program Director for 826 Michigan, a nonprofit writing center designed to help students aged 6-18 develop their writing skills. She lives on the very outskirts of Ann Arbor.
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Staff Members
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Visit the
Pin-Upspage to see more pictures and selected excerpts from published work by Orchid's editors.
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Emilie Baratta was (sob, sob) Orchid's jack of all trades. She recently earned her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School and developed a dynamite five-year business plan for Orchid. Emilie brought her experience in business communications to Orchid in her role as assistant editor and proofreader. But Emilie has broken our hearts (sob, sob, sob and boo hoo) by taking a job in Baltimore, Maryland. We miss her and still can't bring ourselves to remove her photo from this page. We'll get over it in time.
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Siddhartha Sharma is a member of Orchid's business staff. Don't let his charming demeanor fool you. Sid is a one man selling machine for Orchid. He has placed copies with actor Jeff Daniels, fiction writer Brady Udall, poet Richard Foerster, and nobel prize laureate in chemistry Roald Hoffman, just to name a few. Sid loves literature and is proud to be able promote Orchid.
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Wah-Ming Chang a new photo. More audacious bio info will be here shortly.
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A few of Orchid's recent group of interns. From left: Beenish Ahmed, David Javier Thompson, and Adriana Rewald. Matt Gelzer (far right) started as an intern for course credit. His internship was two semesters ago and he's still with us a very astute fiction reader.
Staff Not Pictured
Wah-Ming Chang, Assistant Editor
Lori Eaton, Business Manager
Marshall Walker Lee, Intern
Whitney Russell, Intern
Catherine Zudak, Editorial Assistant
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