About PBQ

Board of Directors
David Dondero, Stephen Dunn, Robert Louis, Cynthia Vena,
Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Lisa Zeidner

Editor
Marion Wrenn

Senior Editors
Melisa Cahnmann, Tom Hartman, Daniel Nester, Gregory Pardlo

Associate Editors
Scott Edward Anderson, Christopher Connelly, Patrick Goughary, Margaret Longbrake, Carley Moore, Robin Mookerjee Jason Toogood

Readers
Toni Brown, Keetje Kuipers

Contributing Editors
Kathleen Volk Miller, Major Jackson

Legal Counsel
Robert Louis, Chad Rutkowski

Interns 2000-2001
Sandy Landgraf, Michele Robinson, Pamela Swanson, Kim Cobb, Scott Coon,
Monica Fisher, Patty Gavras, Nicole O’Keefe, Kara Monagle, Ana Hartman.

Web Design
First National Digital
additional HTML authoring by Daniel Nester, Christopher Connelly and Robin Mookerjee

Address:
Painted Bride Quarterly
English Dept.
Armitage Hall
Rutgers University
Camden, NJ 08104

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Mission
As an independent, community-based literary magazine, published quarterly on the World Wide Web and annually in print,Painted Bride Quarterly's main agenda is to support regional and emerging artists. But no regional writing community can be viewed without a context: therefore, PBQ continues to bring to the forefront of the literary scene the best established and emerging local writers together with their peers from across the country and around the world. The philosophy of the magazine is not to limit itself in terms of voice, school or genre; in fact, both the local and national writers PBQ has published over the last two decades extend from the most traditional to language school explorations. What we feel is important is that the work best represents the individual voice, however traditional or exploratory it may be. PBQ's print annual is distributed nationally; our subscription base is international. All work is read and discussed by the editorial board, and directly solicited work is given no preference over unsolicited work. Authors whose work is accepted for publication receive two copies of PBQ plus a 1 year subscription. Copyright reverts to authors upon publication.

Painted Bride Quarterly is supported in part by the English Department at Rutgers University Camden and by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts

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History
Painted Bride Quarterly saw its first issue in 1973, culminating a year of planning by its founding editors, Louise Simons and R. Daniel Evans. PBQ became its own non-profit corporation in 1977. The magazine has increased in size and production quality over the last twenty years. PBQ has been staffed by local writers, critics, and editors whose driving passion has been to ensure a sophisticated forum for the highest quality work such a forum could attract. Each member of the staff, past and present, serves as a custodian of this ideal, striving to make the best magazine possible. The staff is currently composed of local writers, poets, critics, teachers, editors, and film makers. Artists of all genres find a forum in PBQ. The magazine encourages and publishes many translations as well as artwork from a variety of visual artists. The artwork often provides a context for the work of the issue in which it is featured, and its publication is another way for PBQ to test the boundaries of the literary journal.