Editor/Co-Founder
David Holub
David Holub’s stories and essays have appeared in more than 30 publications, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Christian Science Monitor, 3AM Magazine, Hobart and Monkeybicycle. He works as a mentor in the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and teaches first-year writing at the University of Hartford. In his free time he is a graphic designer at the Hartford Courant and has more than 10 years of journalism experience, writing, editing and designing. At night he sleeps on a growing stack of unsold newspapers.
Publisher/Co-Founder
Brian Clements
Brian Clements is the editor of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics and of Firewheel Editions (publisher of Kugelmass). He is the author of several books of poems, including Disappointed Psalms (Meritage Press) and And How to End It (Quale Press), and editor of the anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel). He coordinates the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.
Contributing editors
Steve Almond
Steve Almond is the author the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). His most recent book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, came out in Spring 2010. He is also, crazily, self-publishing books. This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey , is composed of 30 very brief stories, and 30 very brief essays on the psychology and practice of writing. Letters from People Who Hate Me is just plum crazy. Both are available at readings.
Daniel Nester
Daniel Nester is the author of How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull, 2009), a collection of humorous nonfiction, and God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, multi-genre books that center on his obsession with the band Queen, as well as The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006), poems. He teaches creative nonfiction at The College of Saint Rose. Find him at danielnester.com.
Dan Pope
Dan Pope is author of the novel, "In The Cherry Tree" (Picador 2003). His short stories have been published in Harvard Review, McSweeneys, Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, and other literary journals. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and currently a writer in residence in the Western Connecticut State University MFA program in Professional and Creative Writing.
Daniel Asa Rose
Daniel Asa Rose was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brown University. He placed his first short story in The New Yorker when he was 27 and won an O. Henry Prize and two Pen Fiction Awards for the other stories in his first collection, "Small Family With Rooster." His first novel, "Flipping For It," a black comedy about divorce, was a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback. In 2002, he published "Hiding Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape From the Holocaust," a book which earned starred reviews in both Publishers Weekly ("brilliant") and Kirkus ("remarkable"). His latest book, “Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With my Black-Sheep Cousin and his Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant ... And Save His Life,” was named one of the “Top Books of 2009” by Publisher’s Weekly, and has been optioned to be a major motion picture.
In his spare time DAR has served as book reviewer for The New York Observer and New York Magazine, arts & culture editor of the Forward newspaper, travel columnist for Esquire magazine, humor writer for GQ, essayist for The New York Times Magazine, and food critic for the past 20 pounds.
Assistant (to the) Editor
E.K. Mortenson
E. K. Mortenson is a poet and book reviewer, and that fact alone was apparently funny enough to the other editors to include him in Kugelmass. His work has appeared in print and online in venues like Defenestration, RATTLE, Six Sentences, Connecticut Review, Broken Bridge Review, and Connecticut River Review among others. He is the author of Dreamer or the Dream (Last Automat Press, 2010), and was the 2008 recipient of the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize. He lives in a pretty nice town, in very nice house, with his really nice children, and exceptionally nice wife. They also have a super nice cat. Being just a nice guy himself, he often finishes last.
Kugelmass is published by Firewheel Editions, publisher of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics and a load of chapbooks and anthologies.
