Donna Baier Stein

Pub­lisher

Donna Baier Stein’s poetry and prose have appeared in Vir­ginia Quar­terly Review, Kansas Quar­terly, Prairie Schooner, Wash­ing­ton­ian, and many other jour­nals and antholo­gies. Her story col­lec­tion Great Draw­ing Board of the Sky was a Final­ist in the Iowa Fic­tion Awards; her novel FORTUNE received the PEN/New Eng­land Dis­cov­ery Award and is now rep­re­sented by William Mor­ris Endeavor. She was a found­ing edi­tor of Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Review. Donna has been a free­lance direct mar­ket­ing copy­writer since 1980, writ­ing for clients that include Smith­son­ian, Time, The Nature Con­ser­vancy, World Wildlife Fund, and many oth­ers. She cre­ated and presents three sem­i­nars on copy­writ­ing for the Direct Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion and has taught copy­writ­ing and writ­ing at sev­eral uni­ver­si­ties, cor­po­ra­tions, and clubs. Her two non­fic­tion books on copy­writ­ing are pub­lished by McGraw Hill and Thom­son Shore. Awards include a Schol­ar­ship from Bread Loaf Writ­ers Con­fer­ence, two awards from the Poetry Soci­eties of Vir­ginia and New Hamp­shire, a Fel­low­ship from Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity, a fel­low­ship from the New Jer­sey Coun­cil on the Arts, and indi­vid­ual fic­tion and poetry prizes from var­i­ous jour­nals and antholo­gies. She recently received a fel­low­ship for the 2011 Sum­mer Lit­er­ary Sem­i­nar in Lithuania.

Diane Bonav­ist

Edi­tor in Chief & Designer

Diane Bonav­ist is the founder of Resource­ful Woman, a fem­i­nist pub­li­ca­tion. She has worked in tech­ni­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion for For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, indexed text books and pro­gram­ming lan­guage man­u­als, and taught cre­ative writ­ing. She received her BS in his­tory and is the author of Cathars and The Daugh­ters of Night, both his­tor­i­cal nov­els. Her story A Soldier’s Heart appeared in Tiferet. She edits and designs both the print and dig­i­tal issues of our magazine.

Adele Kenny

Poetry Edi­tor

Adele Kenny is the author of twenty-three books (poetry & non­fic­tion). Her poems, reviews, and arti­cles have been pub­lished world­wide, and her poems have appeared in books and antholo­gies pub­lished by Crown, Tut­tle, Shamb­hala, and McGraw-Hill. She is the recip­i­ent of var­i­ous awards, includ­ing two poetry fel­low­ships from the NJ State Arts Coun­cil, first place Merit Book and Hen­der­son Awards, a Mer­ton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and a Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. One of her poems appeared on the mar­quee of the Rialto West The­ater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project, and her antiques ref­er­ence books have been cited by Home and Gar­den Tele­vi­sion. A for­mer pro­fes­sor of cre­ative writ­ing in the Col­lege of New Rochelle’s Grad­u­ate School, she is found­ing direc­tor of the Car­riage House Poetry Series and poetry edi­tor of Tiferet. Web­site: www.Adelekenny.com Poetry Blog: http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/.

Jef­frey Davis

Fic­tion Editor

Jef­frey Davis loves to con­nect peo­ple to art­fully told sto­ries that mat­ter. He is author of The Jour­ney from the Cen­ter to the Page: Yoga Philoso­phies and Prac­tices as Muse for Authen­tic Writ­ing (Pen­guin Put­nam, 2004; updated ed. Monk­fish Pub­lish­ing, 2008) and the poetry col­lec­tion City Reser­voir (Barn­burner Press 1999). His fic­tion, essays, arti­cles, and poetry appear widely in jour­nals and mag­a­zines such as Com­mon Ground, Kri­palu Mag­a­zine,Sen­tence: A Jour­nal of Prose Poet­ics, The Com­stock Review, and oth­ers. You can find his most recent writ­ings at the “Track­ing Won­der” blog for Psy­chol­ogy Today and A Hut of Ques­tions. Through his orga­ni­za­tions Cen­ter To Page, LLC and Track­ing Won­der Con­sult­ing, he men­tors best-selling and aspir­ing writ­ers alike, cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als & solo-preneurs, small cre­ative busi­nesses, and cam­puses. He teaches in West­ern Con­necti­cut State University’s MFA in Pro­fes­sional and Cre­ative Writ­ing Pro­gram and teaches or has taught work­shops at places such as The Omega Insti­tute, Kri­palu Cen­ter, and UNM’s Taos Writer’s Con­fer­ence. Jeffrey’s web­site istrackingwonder.com.

Melissa Stud­dard

Con­tribut­ing Editor

Melissa Stud­dard is the author of the best­selling novel Six Weeks to Yehi­dah. Her poetry, fic­tion, essays, reviews and arti­cles have appeared in numer­ous jour­nals and antholo­gies, includ­ing Boule­vard, Con­necti­cut Review, Pleiades, Gradiva, Amer­i­can Book Review, Poets and Writ­ers, and The Smok­ing Poet. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence Col­lege and is a Cre­ative Writ­ing and Eng­lish pro­fes­sor for a com­mu­nity col­lege in Texas. She has pre­vi­ously served in an edi­to­r­ial capac­ity for both Gulf Coast andChelsea, and she cur­rently serves as a Book-Reviewer-At-Large for The National Poetry Review and Con­tribut­ing Edi­tor for The Cri­te­rion. She is the host of Tiferet Journal’s blogtalk inter­view pro­gram, Tiferet Talk.

Gail Fish­man Gerwin

Asso­ciate Poetry Editor

Gail Fish­man Ger­win holds an M.A. from NYU’s Gal­latin School and has writ­ten sev­eral plays as well as fic­tion, essays, and jour­nal­is­tic fea­tures, pub­lished in lit­er­ary jour­nals and mag­a­zines. In 1984 she founded inedit, a free­lance writing/editing firm based in Mor­ris­town. Her poetic mem­oir Sugar and Sand was a 2010 Pater­son Poetry Prize final­ist and her poems earned four con­sec­u­tive Allen Gins­berg Poetry Awards hon­or­able men­tions. Her poetry appears in jour­nals includ­ing The Amer­i­can Voice in Poetry: The Legacy of Williams, Whit­man, and Gins­berg; Tiferet; Lips; U.S. 1 Work­sheets; Pater­son Lit­er­ary Review; Caduceus; Jour­nal of New Jer­sey Poets; Smith Col­lege Poetry Cen­ter; Adanna; and Jew­ish Women’s Lit­er­ary Annual. She presents writ­ing work­shops and writes poetry reviews.

Mary Zedalis

Mary Zedalis is a stu­dent at Pur­due Uni­ver­sity work­ing to com­plete a BA in the major of Pro­fes­sional Writ­ing and minor in Child Devel­op­ment and Fam­ily Stud­ies. About to embark on her final year at her uni­ver­sity, Mary has gained valu­able expe­ri­ence through course work and out­side activ­i­ties in the fields of copy­writ­ing, cre­ative writ­ing, and pub­lish­ing. Although quite new to TIFERET, Mary is excited to work and watch this jour­nal grow and flour­ish while at the same time learn­ing along the way.