The Web del Sol
Board of Directors

BETSY AMSTER
Ms. Amster is president of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises, a literary agency in Los Angeles. Before opening her agency in 1992, she spent ten years as an editor at Pantheon and Vintage and two years as editorial director of the Globe Pequot Press.

KENNETH ATCHITY
Kenneth Atchity is president of Atchity Editorial/Entertainment International (AEI)--a successful motion picture production and literary management company. He has produced 20 films and authored a dozen books, including A Writer's Time: A Guide to the Creative Process, from Vision Through Revision and Writing Treatments That Sell--co-authored with Chi-Li Wong. He taught creative writing at UCLA (1970 - 1987), and served as a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Bologna.

MARTINE BELLEN
Ms. Bellen is the author of Places People Dare Not Enter (Potes & Poets Press), Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems (Sun & Moon Press and winner of the National Poetry Series Award), and The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press).

MICHAEL BRODSKY
Mr. Brodsky has published 11 works of fiction and has authored several plays, five of which have been performed at Off-Off Broadway venues. His latest published work is We Can Report Them, a novel, released by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1999. His Hemigway Award winning novel, Detour, will soon be published by Scrivenry Press, Houston.
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
Mr. Butler has published nine novels and two volumes of short fiction, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
WALTER CUMMINS
Since 1983, Mr. Cummins has been editor-in-chief of The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing. He is a professor of English at Fairleigh Dickson University. Over his lifetime his prose has appeared in nearly one hundred publications. Two collections of his work, as well as two novels of his have been published.
PETER JOHNSON
Mr. Johnson is the founding editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, regarded as the world's leading prose poetry journal. He teaches at Providence College and his books of poetry include: Pretty Happy! (White Pine Press, 1997) and Miracles & Mortifications (White Pine Press, 2001). He was awarded an NEA for creative writing in 1999.
JOHN KINSELLA
Mr. Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge (UK), the present Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College (Ohio), and Adjunct Professor of Literature at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia He is the author of over twenty volumes of poetry, a novel, a collection of short fiction, three plays, and numerous essays and reviews.

ELIZABETH MILLS
Ms. Mills is senior editor and director of development of the Southwest Review, the fourth oldest continuously published quarterly in the U.S. She has taught at the University of Iowa and been an editor and publicity director for Wesleyan University Press. She is serving a second term on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.

PETER STINE
Mr. Stine founded Witness magazine in 1987, and since then the literary journal has won nine grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His own essays, journalism, and fiction have appeared in Boulevard, The Threepenny Review, Modern Critical Views, The New York Times and elsewhere. Mr. Stine is widely regarded by his peers as one of the finest literary editors in this country.

ROBERT SWARD
Mr. Sward has taught at Cornell University; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; and now University of California in Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow and Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award winner, his 16 books include: Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press) and A Much-Married Man.
HENRY TAYLOR
Mr. Taylor is Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC., where he has taught since 1971. His third collection of poems, The Flying Change, received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His translations from Bulgarian, French, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies.
ROBLEY WILSON
Robley is the author of a novel, three books of poetry, and five story collections, most recently 'The Book of Lost Fathers'. He edited the North American Review for 31 years.

The Web del Sol
Executive Committee
(pending board approval)

CHAIR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MICHAEL NEFF is the founder, architect, and editor-in-chief of Web del Sol, as well as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine, Del Sol Review. He is a consultant, webmaster, and designer for several national publications including The Literary Review, Witness, La Petite Zine, Five Points, and others. His work has appeared in such magazines as North American Review, Quarterly West, American Way, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Conjunctions.


VICE-CHAIR

ANDER MONSON is the editor of Black Warrior Review and the new arts and literature publication, DIAGRAM. He is also interim editor of 5_Trope. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.


ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

JOAN HOULIHAN is the editor of Perihelion and author of the column, Boston Comment. She also teaches online poetry workshops for Web del Sol.


TREASURER

DIANA TAKATA is an entrepreneur, human rights activist, and media producer. In a former life she dedicated time to re-engineering the accounting practices of Fortune 500 financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. She earned her master's from UCLA.


SECRETARY

Valerie MacEwan is a Book Critic for PopMatters.com and founder of the "Society for the Preservation of Southern Vernacular." Her writing has appeared in: Earth and Soul, an Anthology of North Carolina Poetry; The Asheville Poetry Review, MindKites, and PIF. She is also the Editor/Architect of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, a literary journal.