Rob Maitra Rob Maitra has been a major force in the world of fantasy baseball for almost a decade. Additonally, he has read nearly every book written by Somerset Maugham and James Baldwin. His fiction and essays have appeared in Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Harrington's Quarterly, Small Spiral Notebook, Multicultural Review, and Pindeldyboz. In the past he has taught middle school and high school in New York, was a lecturer in Education at the Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College Education Program and worked as the Assistant Education Director of The Boys' Club of New York. Recently he returned to the Boys' Club as the Director of Educational Advancement. He is a Doctoral Student in Cultural Studies and Education at Teachers College, Columbia Univerity, where he received his Masters Degree. He lives in Astoria, Queens.
James Conlon James Conlon is an educational technologist and architectural conservator at the Visual Media Center in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. His academic and professional interests began with the social history of the Near East in the Medieval period and have extend to include the contemporary relevance of the region’s material legacy. Although most of his professional projects are centered in this part of the world, he now explores the broader issues of experimenting with different modes of representation to better express, teach and live with change in the built environment.
