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)

Duff Brenna
Fiction Editor
 
Duff Brenna is Professor Emeritus at Cal-State University, San Marcos, where he was given three Outstanding Faculty Awards. He is a former AWP Best Novel winner, and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship. His third novel, Too Cool, was a New York Times Noteworthy Book. His fourth novel, The Altar of the Body was Book Editor's Favorite Book of the Year at South Florida Sun-Sentinel. His sixth novel, The Law of Falling Bodies (Hopewell Publications), was published September 2007.(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)

R.A. Rycraft
Non-Fiction Editor
 
R.A. Rycraft has published stories, essays, and poetry in a number of newspapers, journals, and anthologies, including the San Diego Union Tribune, PIF Magazine, Perigee, VerbSap, The MacGuffin, and Calyx. An electronic collection of her work is published at Web del Sol. Winner of the Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor's Choice Award for 2008 and nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize, Rycraft is chair of the English department at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, California.(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. Ben 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)

Walter Cummins
Contributing Editor
 
Walter Cummins has published more than one hundred stories, three story collections, two novels and numerous essays. He is Editor Emeritus of The Literary Review. His latest story collection is Local Music (Egress Books, 2007). Cummins is a core faculty member of the Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA program.(show/hide bio)

Thomas E Kennedy
Contributing Editor
 
Thomas E. Kennedy is the author of The Copenhagen Quartet, which consists of four novels about the souls and seasons of the Danish capital, where Kennedy has lived for over 30 years. He has written 20 books. Kennedy's stories have been published in more than 100 literary venues. He has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart, Gulf Coast, and European prizes, the Charles Angoff Award, a National Magazine Award, and the Frank Expatriate Writers Award. In 2008, New American Press published his Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America.(show/hide bio)

Honorary, Retired Editors
Fred T Buckley (Photography Editor; Founding Editor)
Sue Fellows (Contributing and Advising Editor; Founding Editor)
Sara Goetze (Reader)
John McGuinness (Fiction Editor)
Jensea Storie (Poetry Editor)
Leighann Timbs (Poetry Co-Editor; Founding Editor)

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