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 established Perigee 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 is a graduate student at Fontbonne University and a fulltime father to his growing toddler.(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)
Lawrence Lawson
Guest Fiction Editor
This issue's Guest Fiction Editor, Lawrence Lawson, lived and worked as a teacher of English with the Peace Corps in Ukraine from 2005 to 2007. When he wasn't learning Ukrainian or observing pro-democracy political rallies, he was writing about his experiences.
Lawrence's non-fiction work about his Peace Corps experience was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. As well, an excerpt of his current work of non-fiction, When a Lobster Whistles in the Mountains: A Peace Corps Honeymoon in Ukraine, will be published in Peace Corps at 50, a four volume collection of stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of Peace Corps.
His work has also been published in various Peace Corps publications, including Worldview magazine and "In The Field" magazine, and at perigee-art.com (where he took, respectively, second and first place in Perigee's 2004 & 2005 prose competitions).
Lawrence recently received his Master's Degree in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He currently teaches at a college in Southern California, and is hard at work completing his second book, a fantasy novel entitled The Aria of Davin Ford: Midnight Quit of Starlight. (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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