Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He has been in the magazine and book publishing business since 1976. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, and has also been involved in publishing Oregon Business, Oregon Home, Travel Oregon, Military History Quarterly, and Art and Auction magazines, and was involved in the start-up of Mother Jones. He is editor of the books Profiles of Oregon, Great Moments in Oregon History, and The Rajneesh Chronicles, and won a William Allen White award for his investigative coverage of the Rajneesh cult from 1982-1986. He writes on politics and wrote the article "Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP strategy," about the presidential election debacle in Florida in 2000, for the Nation. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.

Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and executive editor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Review, British GQ, Connoisseur, Details, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sports Illustrated, SPY, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Worth, among other magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

Holly MacArthur is a founding editor of Tin House. She was formerly senior editor of EcoTraveler magazine and of TravelAge. She has written for various magazines and newspapers, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Rocky Mountain News.

Lee Montgomery is executive editor at Tin House magazine and editorial director of Tin House Books. She is the author of The Things Between Us, A Memoir (Free Press, August 2006), Whose World Is This? stories (University of Iowa Press, September 2007), and Searching for Emily: Illustrated (Nothing Moments Press, October 2007). The Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and Whose World Is This? the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Michelle Wildgen is senior editor at Tin House magazine and editor at Tin House Books. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Best New American Voices 2004, Best Food Writing 2004, TriQuarterly, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence. She is the author of a novel, You're Not You, and editor of an anthology, Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy, and of the forthcoming Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). She teaches at Columbia University and at Eugene Lang College of the New School University. She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Elissa Schappell is a co-founder and editor at large of Tin House, as well as the author of Use Me, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and co-editor with Jenny Offill of the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her essays, articles, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies such as The Bitch in the House, The KGB Bar Reader, and The Mrs. Dalloway Reader. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens in Charlotte, North Carolina, and at Brooklyn College.

CJ Evans is the associate poetry editor of Tin House and works for the Academy of American Poets. His poetry has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Cincinnati Review, Court Green, Mid-American Review, Third Coast, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.

Deborah Jayne is the director of publicity for Tin House Books. Previously, she worked in special sales at Timber Press and has freelanced as a publicist for local writers. She was distribution manager for The Grove Review and the acquisitions intern for Ooligan Press. She earned an MA in writing through the Publishing Program at Portland State University. Currently, she volunteers as the children's book mender at the Multnomah County Library. She lives in Portland, OR.

Cheston Knapp is the Director of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and the Associate Editor of Tin House Magazine. He has written about books and music for various publications. His fiction has appeared in Manque, a now defunct student literary magazine he helped start while attending The College of William and Mary. He lives in Portland, OR.

Meg Storey is an associate editor at Tin House Books. She has worked as a freelance copy editor and proofreader for the academic journal Literature and Medicine, the arts journal the Organ, and Hawthorne Books press, as well as for several nonprofit organizations. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Tonaya Thompson is the Assistant Editor at Tin House. She earned an MFA from Bennington College and has edited a student anthology, The Bennington Review, as well as Bennington’s alumni newsletter, From the Far Side of the Vortex. She lives in North Portland with her contractor husband and probably too many pets.

Brian DeLeeuw is an Assistant Editor at Tin House.  He received his BA from Princeton University and his MFA from The New School.  He writes frequently on travel and food for CITY magazine and is a contributor to the website ThisRecording.com.  His writing has also appeared in New York, Tin House, and New York Press, and an excerpt from his novel-in-progress is forthcoming in H.O.W. Journal #2.  He has worked at HarperCollins UK in London and now lives in his hometown of New York City.

Tony Perez is the Assistant Editor of Tin House Books. He reads, writes, and records amateurish rock music in Portland, OR.

Heather Hartley is Paris editor at Tin House. Her poems have appeared in Post Road, Mississippi Review, Forklift Ohio, Smartish Pace, Kalliope, the Los Angeles Review, Calyx, and elsewhere. Recently she was the managing editor of Upstairs at Duroc (Paris) and guest editor for the Café Review. She lives in Paris.

Laura Howard is the circulation director of Tin House Magazine. Based in Los Angeles, she currently works with a consortium of magazines including BOMB and The Believer. She has also worked with such publishers as Artforum, Bookforum, Cabinet, and TASCHEN.

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