Andrea Jo DeWerd is Editor-in-Chief and a sophomore English major.  She comes to GW from the land of 10,000 lakes (which is Minnesota, for you non-geography majors out there).  She appreciates Chopin, macaroni and cheese, a good use of parallax, and the occasional crack at her friends who are going to have real jobs when they graduate from college.

Leland Tabares is vice president.  He is a sophomore studying English and Classics.

Our Alums

Jonathan Hakakian is currently on a quest to find the meaning of life (aka: procrastinating finding a real job...).  He may be found wandering the streets of NJ/NY/DC.  If you run into him, wish him luck on his journey to avoid entering the real world.

Shilpa Grover is from New Jersey. Like most GW students, she's a political junkie but occasionally indulges in her guilty pleasures of good literature and, yes, chick lit.  She is now a field organizer for the Hillary Clinton campaign out in Iowa. She's been there for about six months now, and still going strong.  Her hours are crazy and the days are long, but the work is very rewarding and she really loves what she's doing. Iowa is definitely a change from DC, but hey, its the superbowl of politics, right?

Ashton Tebbe  is in DC. She worked in the HR Department and the Contracts and Grants Department at IFES for awhile and then moved to Crown Agents working in their HR Department and that takes up about 45 hours of her week. :-)

Lisa Francavilla is working at Oxford University Press in New York, where she spends her days commuting from upstate, eating bagels, and getting everyone coffee. Glamorous right?

The rest of the staff is currently MIA.  If and when they are found we will update you on their whereabouts and condition.  Good day.

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Rebecca Guyon and Karen Rosenthall are the founders of Mortar and Pestle. 

Rebecca is living in Oakland and getting her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry at St. Mary's College. Before starting school, she worked as a staff reporter for a small weekly newspaper and did it part-time while in school. She just quit so she will have time to take on more TA positions.

Karen is living in NYC and working in international export sales and marketing for a publishing distributor, Publisher's Group West. She finished up  her Masters in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU, and is in the process of considering literature PhD. programs.

We can only hope that they're enjoying their post-Mortar lives and have not forgotten about us as they move on to bigger but not better things ('cuz what could be better than an online literary magazine?)

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
-- John Osborne