Ms. Arline is the editor of Critique's sister-site, The Paumanok Review, in addition to work as a web designer.

 

Tim Rees
Managing Editor of European Operations

Mr. Rees lives and works in his native Wales, UK, where he is currently completing his second novel. His first novel, the international thriller Raw Nerve is available in paperback at www.ebooksonthe.net and an extract can be read at his website.

 
Tamara Vishkina
Contributing Editor

Ms. Vishkina is a chemist, received MS in Biophysics (Moscow University, Russia), Ph.D. in Chemistry (Kiev University, Ukraine). She writes poetry, has several publications in The Paumanok Review and International Library of Poetry's anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her college student daughter. She discusses The Pity of War is this edition.

 

This Issue:
Kim Chinquee
Freelance Writer

Ms. Chinquee is finishing her M.A. in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work is forthcoming in Nostalgia, Short Stories Bimonthly, The Paumanok Review and North Dakota Quarterly. She reviews The Best American Short Stories in this issue.

 
Maya Mirsky
Freelance Writer

Ms. Mirsky is a freelance writer and editor currently based in Budapest, Hungary. Although she has settled down to the life of an expatriate, she still considers herself a Californian. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, the daughter of a musician, where she spent a happy childhood on the beach. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and received a degree in Politics with an emphasis on theory. A junior year abroad in Budapest introduced her to Central Europe. Besides writing, she consults with governmental and academic translators and is in process of becoming a translator herself. In this edition, Ms. Mirsky reviews The Map of Love.

 
Elizabeth Routen
Freelance Writer

Ms. Routen, a native of Hampton Roads, Virginia, is a fiction writer and web designer whose credits include the short story collection Voices on the Stair and placement in magazines including The Paumanok Review and Sunjammer. You may read excerpts from her work and a full bibliography on her website. In this issue, she reviews The Psychic Battlefield.

 
Gaither Stewart
Freelance Writer
Mr. Stewart a native of Asheville, North Carolina, has lived most of his life in Europe. He served as Italian correspondent for the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad and wrote for publications in various countries. Recently, he lived over a year in Mexico to research and work on a novel that takes place in Italy and Mexico. He recently returned home to Rome. In this issue he reports on Umberto Eco.