Founded in 2005, Conte is an online journal that aims to celebrate, explore, and expand the boundaries of both narrative writing and digital publishing.

Conte is:

Adam Tavel, Poetry Editor
Adam Tavel was a finalist for the 2010 Intro Prize with Four Way Books.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Redivider, Portland Review, Cave Wall, Georgetown Review, Clarion, South Carolina Review, Apalachee Review, Poet Lore, and Two Review, among others, and he also work forthcoming in the anthologies Dogs Singing and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. He holds degrees from Lebanon Valley College, the University of Toledo, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A contributing editor at Emprise Review, Tavel is an assistant professor of English at Wor-Wic Community College on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Robert Lieberman, Prose Editor
Born in Maryland, Robert earned a B.A. in History from the University of Pittsburgh.  He was featured as a finalist in the Pittsburgh City Paper’s 2006 short fiction contest, and currently works as an English teacher in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Ashley Seitz Kramer, Contributing Poetry Editor
Ashley Seitz Kramer is from Ohio.  She earned her M.A. from Ohio University and her M.F.A. from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  Her work has appeared in Dogwood, Wicked Alice, Sow’s Ear, Brevity, Gihon River Review, and Cutbank, and is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain and Slice.  She has been a finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Award, the Sow’s Ear Poetry Award, and in 2009, for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship.  She recently won the 2010 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize.  She currently resides in Lakewood, Ohio with her husband and pets, and teaches in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University.  She collects small elephants and is drawn to all things epistolary.

Andy Hefner, Producer
A native of Edgewater, MD, Andy made his fortune in 2001 by secretly brokering a deal to resell the Mir space station to a private entity. He was last seen crossing the Russia-Kazakhstan border in an effort to corner the market on Soviet-era replacement parts. (Ed. note: Caveat lector.)

Brian Safdie, Producer
Hailing from the icy wilds of Massachusetts, Brian studied theatre at Shenandoah Conservatory before leaving that world to earn degrees in graphic design and art history in Maryland. His studio, Keep Sleeping Design, is perpetually cranking out ones and zeroes which, when viewed through high-tech equipment, miraculously take the form of visual data.