ABOUT
decomP (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an
online literary magazine that is updated monthly. We have been in existence since April
2004, and were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We publish prose, poetry, art, and
solicited book reviews. A print issue? Yes, in 2011. Also keep in mind that all accepted submissions are
eligible for our best-of print anthology—provisionally titled decadE oF decomP—slated for release in
2014. Our e-mail address is decomp.magazine@gmail.com (no submissions to this address).
Current
Editor-in-Chief Jason Jordan holds an MFA from Chatham University. His books are Cloud and
Other Stories (Six Gallery Press, 2010) and Powering the Devil’s Circus: Redux (Six Gallery
Press, 2010). Additionally, his prose has appeared online and in print in over forty literary magazines.
Visit him at his blog.
Art Editor Jason Behrends likes to be busy, and through that pursuit has acquired an addition to caffeine. He founded the arts and culture site What to Wear During an Orange Alert? in Oct. 2006 and has been interacting with writers, artists, and musicians ever since. In March 2008 he founded Orange Alert Press and released the imprint’s first title that September. In November of that year he launched the Orange Alert Reading Series, which is held the third Sunday of each month at The Whistler in Chicago. He is also the editor of a Chicago-centric music site called The Deli Chicago where he delves deep into the Chicago music scene and manages a staff of eight writers. He is the music editor of the online literary journal This Zine Will Change Your Life. He is a regular contributor to the webzine Gapers Block, and recently joined the Chicago Tribune’s blogging extension ChicagoNow as he takes over the reigns of their literary site Chicago Subtext.
Poetry Editor Jac Jemc works at one of the last surviving femininst bookstores in the country: Women & Children First. Her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2012. She is also on the editorial teams of Our Stories and Tarpaulin Sky Press. She regularly contributes to the Web sites Big Other and Literago, and also blogs her own rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.
Prose Editor Brad Green’s work has appeared in Annalemma, PANK, Night Train, elimae, Storyglossia, and others. His story “Rabbit Drive” was selected for inclusion in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fictions of 2010 and his story “The Dead Center of the Sun” was nominated for a Pushcart by the Emprise Review. He lives in Texas with his wife and children and works at a job more boring than yours. Find him online at elevatetheordinary.blogspot.com.
Staff Book Reviewer Spencer Dew is the author of the short story collection Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008) and the forthcoming critical study Learning for Revolution: The Work of Kathy Acker (San Diego State University Press, 2010). An instructor at Loyola University, Chicago, Dew also reviews books for Rain Taxi Review of Books and art for Newcity Chicago. His Web site is spencerdew.com.
Staff Book Reviewer Jessica Maybury is a recent graduate of the MA in Writing programme from NUI, Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Nth Word, Word Riot and Prick of the Spindle, among other places. Her Web site is jmaybury.blogspot.com.
Former
Jared Ward was the Prose Editor from April 2009 to August 2010. He lives with his wife and son in Northwest Arkansas, where he is the director of a junior tennis academy. He is a Kansan. His work has been accepted at West Branch, Evansville Review, New Delta Review, Storyglossia, Hobart, Word Riot, Barrelhouse, and others. Currently he is in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.
Misti Rainwater-Lites was the Poetry Editor from January 2008 to May 2009. She has published several of her
chapbooks and full-length poetry collections at Lulu.com. Additionally, Misti has three chapbooks
available through other publishers: Lullabies for Jackson through Kendra Steiner Editions,
Dripping Milk through Erbacce Press and All Aboard the Mindfuck Express through Scintillating
Publications.
Nick Ostdick was the Staff Book Reviewer from January 2008 to December 2008. He divides his time between
Milwaukee and Chicago. He was the Editor of RAGAD, a literary broadside and online magazine of
fiction. His work has appeared widely in such places as Slow Trains, Pindeldyboz, Word
Riot, THE2NDHAND, and Letter X.
Mike Smith is the Founding Editor, and he edited from April 2004 to December 2007. He is a writer and
writing teacher who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. His work has appeared in THE2NDHAND, Opium
Magazine, and Automiguel. His first novel is Tell Christian I’m Sorry and his second
novel is Tremendous Power of Concentration.