Role: Editor

William Emery Justice, a fourth-generation Kansan, attended the University of Kansas, where he studied Russian literature and language, German literature, and religion. He worked as a farm laborer, a pizza maker, a vacuum salesman (he didn’t sell a single machine), a roofer, a doughnut fryer, a bookbinder, a convenience store clerk (third shift), a copyist, and a video store clerk before joining Heyday Books. He co-edited California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century (also published by Heyday Books) and is writing a novel placing Orpheus in a mythical Kansas.

Vincent Lima is the editor of the Armenian Reporter, an independent newsweekly published by CS Media Enterprises LLC. Since the early 1990s, Lima has had a high profile in the Armenian-American community as an editor and public intellectual. He edited the scholarly journal Armenian Review from 1989 to 1996. He started Armenian Forum: A Journal of Contemporary Affairs, which he coedited with Ara Sarafian. He has served as director of the Gomidas Institute. \

VIRGINIA TASHJIAN is a former children's librarian and author of serveral picture books and small collections of Armenian folktales.