Staff
Nate Jordon
Founder / Editor-in-Chief
In 2007, in a small apartment in Boulder, Colorado, Nate founded Monkey Puzzle Press with a homemade computer and an HP P1000 printer. Prior to that, he went to California State University and received a BA in English, then went to the Jack Kerouac School and snatched an MFA in Writing & Poetics. Now he teaches things, publishes things and sometimes gets things published, among other things. For more, click the following:
“Holy Denver and the Spontaneous Mind” – Article on Jack Kerouac in the Denver Voice
“Solving the Monkey Puzzle” – Interview in the Boulder Weekly
“An Old Jalopy Pontiac with a Bad Transmission”
Nate at Fast Forward Press Release Party
Nate at The Jack Kerouac School
Brief Interview in the Boulder Weekly
“Please Forgive Me / Don’t Forget Me” – Tim Woodall
Jordan Antonucci
Poetry Editor
Nooch is a social butterfly and likes his booze. He quit smoking twenty three times for various women and began twenty four times because of various women. Lots of smiles. Receptive. All of them. The women. He’s soaked to the bone and never tells a decent story. A social butterfly and always onto something. Your average Joe-American with a hint of drugs, obsession, literacy, dog, and intention. A real go-getter. Dig this:
Jordan Performing at The Jack Kerouac School
Nate Cook
Assistant Editor
Between reckless trips to the inner and outer limits of seediness, Nate writes about his travels, exploits, and constant failures. Find his music and musings at:
A Pandora’s Box of Rock ‘n Roll
Travis Cebula
Associate Editor
Travis is the author of Some Exits, Under the Sky They Lit Cities, and Jamaica. His poems, photographs, and stories have appeared in The Talking River Review, Apothecary, In Stereo Magazine, Bombay Gin, and The Strip. He lives in Golden, Colorado, with his lovely wife Shannon.
Brandon Arthur
Associate Editor
Brandon is the author of expired Rx. Raised in the flatlands of central Illinois, he moved to Colorado in 1999 and currently lives in intellectual squalor somewhere in Denver, Colorado.
BLOG CONTRIBUTORS
Get in the car, Helen
Get in the car, Helen began writing shortly after discovering Helen, the woman he loved more than anything, had been secretly fucking a guy named Craig. Since being dumped by Helen, he has published a book of poetry, The Aftermath, etc., and is obsessed with Shark Week-type documentaries and zombie movies. He is methodically depressed.
Nicholas B. Morris
Nick is the author of Tapeworm and an ordained minister, born and raised in southwest Arkansas. He split his childhood between small towns and farms, was educated at Arkansas Tech University and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and now lives in Denver, Colorado with his partner Alyssa Piccinni.
Jonathan Montgomery
Jonny does, in fact, drive a taxi. He is also the author of The MeTOO Poems Volumes I & II (Baobob Tree Press, 2008). Born in 1980 and raised in Akron, Ohio, he is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Naropa University and lives and performs in Boulder, Colorado
Dale Bridges
Dale is a freelance journalist and fiction writer living in Boulder, Colorado. His writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Out of the Gutter, Edit Red, The Crucible, Head Magazine, Denver Magazine, The Daily Camera and Boulder Weekly, etc.
Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn is a writer, performer, and social worker living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is the author of the chapbook Ouch, Humans.