Alimentum The Literature of Food

WHO WE ARE

ALIMENTUM EDITORIAL STAFF

Publisher/Editor: Paulette Licitra

Paulette Licitra is a Writer and Chef. She completed her professional culinary studies at ICE in NYC, and has traveled extensively in Europe for culinary research. Paulette teaches cooking classes and caters for special events. She was Food Editor for the webzine Urban Desires (desires.com), and Food Columnist for the Pulitzer prize-winning paper Riverdale Press. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Global City Review, Spectacle, The Journal of Italian Food, Wine & Travel, Tea magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and other publications. Paulette published the poetry journal poemail®. She also writes for museums, theatre, and television.


Editor: Peter Selgin www.peterselgin.com

Peter Selgin's stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Essays 2006, Glimmer Train Stories, Missouri Review, The Sun, Boulevard, Our Roots are Deep in Passion (Other Press), and Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2003). He is author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, forthcoming from Writer's Digest Books in February, 2007. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and his short story collection, nothing but water, was short-listed for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. He leads an annual writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy.


Poetry Editor: Cortney Davis www.cortneydavis.com

Cortney Davis's third poetry collection, Leopold's Maneuvers (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), won the Prairie Schooner 2003 Book Prize. Her other collections include Details of Flesh (CALYX Books, 1997), and The Body Flute (Adastra Press, 1994). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Massachusetts Review, The Sun, Witness, Crazyhorse, Ms. Magazine, Ontario Review, Hudson Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and other publications. She's been awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship and three Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants. I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and their Female Caregiver (Random House, 2001) won the Connecticut Center for the Book Non-Fiction Award in 2002.

ALIMENTUM ADVISORY BOARD

Mark Kurlansky

Micol Negrin

Jason Denton

Clifford A. Wright

Bonnie Slotnick

Polly Talbot