Carol Kirkman is a woman of many names and titles, one of which is Editor in Chief of Basement Stories. It’s hard being an EiC when there’s only one other staff member, but she does her best. When she’s not busy reading your stories, she spends most of her time trying to will the Doctor Who episode “The End of Time” out of existence. You can contact her at caroljkirkman@gmail.com

James Dent is our resident poetry expert and diligent webmaster. He can’t code, but he does know what a villanelle is, and that’s got to count for something, right? If you want to email him, you can at jamescdent@gmail.com

 

Fiction Readers

Nichole Di Dio loves the written word. She accepts it in all its forms: poetry, prose, play-scripts, outlines, shopping lists, scribbles in margins, spray paint on city streets, carved into trees, flashing across billboards and other sorts. To her, your word is your power, so always use it wisely.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time outside writing poetry, curious-georging (exploring) and/or diving into a new book or TV show.

Maria Perales is a twenty-something-year-old reader currently teaching English in South Korea, where she’s spent eleven months learning that she should have respected her teachers a whole lot more in middle school. She graduated from Duke University in 2010 with a degree in Literature, and has spent every waking moment since then wanting to go back. She likes humor, horror, and everything in between, and loves nothing so much as she loves books.