Robert Judge Woerheide
Editor in Chief, Designer
 
Robert Woerheide is a writer and web designer who lives with his wife and daughter in St. Louis, MO. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Triplopia, Miranda Literary Magazine, Coe Review, and the premiere issue of Cadillac Cicatrix, and his collection of stories, Traveling Sitting Still, was published in 2007. Robert is the founding editor of Perigee, which he began in 2003 while an undergraduate student at Cal State San Marcos, where he earned a degree in Literature and Writing Studies. He now serves as Perigee's Editor-in-Chief and is also responsible for the design and maintenance of its web site. Robert works as Web Editor for one of the top art museums in the country.(show/hide bio)

Kate Woerheide
Chief Executive Officer
 
Kate Woerheide has six years experience working with non-profits, working with and in the financial sector, handling grant writing, media and public relations, and specializing in fund raising. She is a graduate of UCSD where she earned a degree in Communications with honors. Her expertise in fundraising earned more than ninety million dollars between 2005 and 2007 for building and modernizing schools in the state of California, and she is passionate about fostering children's imaginations and developing their capacity for achievement. As the wife of Perigee's founding editor, Kate has remained essential to the development of Perigee since its inception.(show/hide bio)

Steve Kowit
Poetry Editor
 
In addition to authoring several books of his own poetry, Kowit has edited a poetry anthology, The Maverick Poets; written several works on the subject of writing poetry, including the highly praised In the Palm Of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop; and has had poetry in a wide range of respected journals, magazines and newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Yoga Journal and The Sun. Kowit's verse is occasionally read by Garrison Keillor on NPR. His work has appeared in many anthologies including ones edited by Edward Field, Garrison Keillor, Billy Collins, and Czeslaw Milosz. Kowit is distinguished by his many awards for poetry, some of which include the National Endowment Fellowship in Poetry, two Pushcart Prizes, the Atlanta Review Poetry Prize, the Ouroborus Book Award, the 2006 Tampa Review Poetry Prize, and most recently the San Diego Theodore Geisel Award. His collection of poems, The Dumbbell Nebula, was a San Francisco Chronicle's Notable Book of the Year, and his most recent books of poems, Gods of Rapture and The First Noble Truth have attracted rapt attention and praise from reviewers(show/hide bio)

Benjamin Arnold
Contributing Editor
 
Benjamin Arnold has survived teaching high school English for five years. When he isn't teaching, he is writing, painting, and raising a reader. He is the founder of BEtheCAUSE, a collective of artists, musicians, and poets, which hosts open mics and poetry slams. Word Riot has published some of his poetry, and he is working on his first collection of poems. He earned a degree in Literature and Writing Studies at Cal State San Marcos in 2003. Arnold lives in Reno, NV with his wife, Tami, and son, TK. He is a contributing editor for Perigee—and continues to investigate and write the world.(show/hide bio)

Chauncey Mabe
Contributing Editor
 
Chauncey Mabe fell in love with reading in the small elementary school library in his hometown of Wytheville, VA. Combined with a love of newspapers, courtesy of his father, he may have been fated to a career in journalism. After 23 years as the books editor and senior cultural columnist for the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Chauncey began working with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. He's interviewed everyone from John Ciardi to Eric Carle; Dave Barry to Margaret Atwood; Charles Willeford to Marilyn French; Tom McGuane to Edmund White; A. Manette Ansay to Joyce Carol Oates. Before joining the Sun Sentinel, he worked as a reporter and magazine editor. He continues to review books of all genres for a variety of publications and write on his blog Open Page.(show/hide bio)

Honorary, Retired Editors
Duff Brenna (Fiction Editor)
Fred T Buckley (Photography Editor; Founding Editor)
Walter Cummins (Contributing Editor)
Sue Fellows (Contributing and Advising Editor; Founding Editor)
Sara Goetze (Reader)
Thomas E. Kennedy (Conributing Editor)
John McGuinness (Fiction Editor)
R.A. Rycraft (Non-Fiction Editor)
Jensea Storie (Poetry Editor)
Leighann Timbs (Poetry Co-Editor; Founding Editor)

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