Aaron Burch
Founding Editor, HOBART
Elizabeth Ellen
Owner and Publisher of HOBART, Founder/Editor of Short Flight/Long Drive Books
Elizabeth Ellen’s stories have been published in American Short Fiction, HARPER'S Magazine, Muumuu House, Joyland, and numerous other magzines and journals. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for her story "Teen Culture," and is the author of several books including the cult classics Fast Machine and Person/a. In 2024, Clash Books will publish her novel, American Thighs. Instagram: @shortflightlongdrive
Garielle Lutz
Contributing Editor
Garielle Lutz's books include Worsted (Short Flight/Long Drive Books) and The Complete Gary Lutz (Tyrant Books). Twitter: @gariellelutz
Andrea Taylor
Managing Editor
Andrea Taylor is a Columbus, Ohio-based writer whose work is published in Maudlin House, Roi Faineant Press, Allegory Ridge, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
Uzodinma Okehi
Associate Editor
Shadowy flight into the incomprehensible, sub-literary world of a dude, who does not exist: Over for Rockwell
House of Hunger (New Book!), available now.
Danielle Chelosky
Associate Editor
Danielle Chelosky is a writer with work in X-Ray and Muumuu House, as well as criticism in Observer and NPR. She has a book arriving on SF/LD in 2024 and runs the press The Waiting Room where she published her chapbook Cheat.
Stephanie Yue Duhem
Associate Editor
Stephanie Yue Duhem is a poet in Austin, TX.
Katie Frank
Associate Editor
Katie Frank likes turtles.
Anna Dorn
Associate Editor
Anna Dorn is the author of three books: Exalted (Unnamed Press, 2022), Bad Lawyer (Hachette Books, 2021), and Vagablonde (Unnamed Press, 2020). Twitter: @___adorn
Steven Arcieri
Associate Editor
Steven Arcieri is a writer/editor from Boston. His work has been featured in New York Tyrant, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. He runs a writing workshop for people sick of writing workshops called Kill All Your Friends. He’s also writing a serialized autobiographical novel called Decade. Twitter: @steven_arcieri. Instagram: @stevenarcieri
Jessica Almereyda
Associate Editor
Jessica Almereyda has work in Fence, Hotel and Juked, among others. Twitter: @jalmereyda Instagram: @jessicaalmereyda
Christian Bodney
Associate Editor
Christian Bodney lives in New York City. He won the 2022 CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award and has work appearing in Hobart, Ninth Letter, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere.
The Gadfly
Associate Editor
The Gadfly, released from a Lacanian prison sometime ago, haunts the literati consciousness.
Joe Nasta
Associate Editor
Joe Nasta is vibing in Seattle. He has whispered four collections of poetry into existence and his debut book of short stories Halve It is forthcoming from Blue Forge Press. @roflcoptermcgee
Audrey Zheng
Associate Editor
Audrey Zheng lives in California and likes to draw small animals making big statements.
Al Jacobs
Associate Editor
Al Jacobs is a writer and translator in New York.
Julia Laxer
Associate Editor
Julia Laxer's poems have appeared in Witch Craft Magazine, Dirt Child, The Thought Erotic, Pom Pom Press, Bodega Magazine, So to Speak, and she has work upcoming in Sarka Journal. Her prose is widely anthologized; most recently, in 2024, she published a memoir in The Holy Hour, published by Working Girls Press. Julia received the Orlando Prize in 2014 for a lyrical essay about mental health. She dreams about living beside the sea and works best on a deadline. Follow her at @julialaxer.bsky.social
Talia Vyadro
Associate Editor
Talia Vyadro is a writer from Boston. She likes words and people that know how to use them. Instagram: @taliavyadro_
Photography/Art Editor
Miles Marie is a conceptual and portrait photographer driven by the body and the stories we can tell about it through light. She is inspired by the collective of the femme and spectrum of individuals that encompass it. She continues to explore femme skin by all means necessary. Instagram: @nomadic_madam
HOBART HISTORY:
Hobart was founded in 2001 by Aaron Burch. Initially, Hobart was a web journal, coedited by Mike McGowan. In 2002, Aaron expanded Hobart to include an annual print issue in addition to the website. In 2005, Elizabeth Ellen came on as a coeditor of the print journal. Web editors over the years have included Dorothy Chan, Doug Paul Case, Matt Bell, Jensen Beach, Elle Nash, Jac Jemc, Caleb Curtiss, Andrea Kneeland, Ben Gross, Brandi Wells, Matthew Simmons, and Elizabeth Ellen, among others.
Stories and essays from the website and print journal have frequently appeared in such compilations as O’Henry, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories, with Roxane Gay’s story “North Country” and Mike Meginnis’s story “Navigators” both from Hobart 12 featured in BASS in 2012.
Over the last fifteen years, Hobart has been a home for up and coming writers (and for some a first publication!) such as Lauren Groff, Blake Butler, Stephen Elliott, Mary Miller, Claire Vaye Watkins, Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter, Tao Lin, Jac Jemc, Jeff Parker, Brian Allen Carr, Roxane Gay, and Lydia Conklin.
In 2006, Elizabeth Ellen founded the book division, Short Flight / Long Drive Books, which has published books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by Michelle Orange, Mary Miller, Adam Novy, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Jess Stoner, Jason Phoebe Rusch, Chelsea Martin, Mira Gonzalez, Tao Lin, Uzodinma Okehi, Elizabeth Ellen, Garielle Lutz and Chloe Caldwell.
