Lisa Bowden is the Publisher and co-founder of Kore Press. She is the editor of Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies, and co-editor with Shannon Cain of Powder: Writing by Women in Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Most recently Lisa co-adapted, directed and produced Coming in Hot (a play based on Powder). A poet who works with dancers and musicians, Lisa is also a book and graphic designer, garnering a few design awards along the way, including an ADDY. She has served on non-profit boards for 20 years, and currently is on the advisory board of Girls Write Now. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Lisa has spent time in London and Barcelona.

Jessica Jeffers is the Kore Press office manager, as well as an editorial assistant. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of Arizona in May 2011. Although she is not a writer, Jessica is an appreciator of the written word and is dedicated to reading as many books as she possibly can. Her goals include working for Disney, traveling the world, and living in a picturesque European town for a year or two. When not being an avid reader, she enjoys pina colada Eegees and getting caught in the monsoon.
Miranda Butler is a publishing and marketing intern for Kore Press. She is a junior at the University of Arizona where she studies English, Creative Writing, Classics, and Linguistics. In addition to her work for Kore, she is a poet, novelist, and award-winning arts journalist for the Arizona Daily Wildcat. She spends her free time writing science fiction novels, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and reading Victorian literature. After graduation, she hopes to pursue higher degrees and become a professor of English.
Nicola Fucigna is an intern assisting Kore Press with the Big Read. She is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona. In addition to studying and teaching at the university, she coedits poetry for the Sonora Review and helps coordinate the Salon Series. She has a poem forthcoming in Capitalism Nature Socialism and has been published in Camas: The Nature of the West and online at The Nervous Breakdown, The Portland Fiction Project, and Fickle Muses. When not ingesting all things poetry, she runs, climbs, bikes, pricks herself on stained glass, and pets most dogs.
Shannon Cain is Kore Press' fiction editor. She is the co-editor, with Lisa Bowden, of Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 2008) and the co-adaptor of Coming in Hot. She is the recipient of a 2006 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2008 O. Henry Prize and a 2009 Pushcart Prize. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and now teaches fiction writing at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Before coming to Kore Press in 2004, she worked for a decade as a chief executive in the nonprofit sector.