Editorial Board
Jess Simms – Managing Editor
Jess Simms is a freelance ghostwriter and fiction writer. Their short fiction has been published most recently in The Arcanist Monster Flash Fiction Anthology, Geek Out! II, and HOOT!. A musician in a former life, they hold a B.M. in saxophone performance from BGSU and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Chatham University. They write speculative fiction with a literary bent, and have weirdly strong opinions about genre. They’re currently working on a hard sci-fi novel that refuses to end.
Shawn Maddey – Poetry Editor
Shawn Maddey does not have a bio, but there is literally only one person in the world with that name and Google exists.
Nathan Kukulski – Prose Editor
Nathan is the long-time driving force behind the Pittsburgh-based Six Gallery Press, as well as a founding member of the Rahnd Table workshop. He’s currently working on his life-long goal of being banned from Twitter.
Brendan Sullivan – Events Coordinator and Editor-At-Large
Brendan Sullivan lives in Pittsburgh and writes at night, but quietly, quietly, so as not to wake anything.
Daniel Parme – Treasurer and Editor-At-Large
Daniel Parme is the author of Hungry—a novel of sex, drugs, and cannibalism—and Post, a dystopian novella published by Running Wild Press. He holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh @ Johnstown, and has been in the food service industry entirely too long.
Current Readers
Liz Abeling
Charlie Brown
Megan Bushey
Ohad Cadji
Annie Gitlitz
Jason Peck
Martin van Velsen
Former Editors
Christina Ailor
Justin Bayer
Lea Bridi
George Ellis
Mike Good
Beth Haley
Tyson Himes
Kara Helmick-Nelson
Karla E. Lamb
Mike Lambert
Jody Rosenberg
David Villaverde
If you’re interested in reading for After Happy Hour, e-mail us at afterhappyhour [at] gmail [dot] com.
