ConnorWords Editor, Editor-in-Chief
Connor Coyne grew up in Flint, Michigan, and has lived in Chicago and New York City. He received his Bachelors from the University of Chicago and his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School. He has written plays, poetry, essays, short stories, and novels, and his work has been featured in the Saturnine Detractor and the Dick Pig Review.
He also directs performance art and theater and studies the history of Michigan and the midwest. He is fascinated by out-of-the-way places such as neighborhoods named "Sugar Hill" in various cities or the 9th century country of Muma. His heroes are Antonin Artaud, Ann Radcliffe and Andy Kaufman. He is fascinated by peoples' ability to acknowledge and struggle with paradox, which he sees as being one of the most intriguing elements of Gothic Funk.
He maintains a website at Here Is No Why.
SamDesigner
Sam has been freelance designing, building and coding the Interwebs since October of 2005. He prefers late nights to early mornings and does his best work while drinking mountain dew or sipping a hot tea.
Whenever he is able to pull himself away from teh computer, he can be found driving around Chicago looking for new places to eat, explore or visit. His computer has blacklights and he is thinking of owning a turtle.
Sam maintains many websites, his primary website and design studio is Forge22.
SeanSounds Editor
Sean Conley was raised in Kansas: he is not in Kansas anymore. Sean graduated from the University of Chicago in 2003 and has lived and worked in the Windy City ever since. He has a background in theater, low-fi home recording, and cultural linguistics. Careful ladies, he's married. He enjoys The Mountain Goats, Biggie Smalls, and T.S. Eliot, but not F. Scott Fitzgerald, not since he wrote his B.A. on that lush and came to realize, not without some small disappointment, that mostly that guy's just a magazine hack. Which is not to pass any sort of judgment on magazines as a category, or to suggest that magazines invite or encourage hackery, it's just, you know, he's just saying.
Sean thinks that Gothic Funk is about the opportunity for growth through tension: its most salient feature is a sense of grasping, searching for lessons in the midst of gumdrops.
Gumdrops? Really?
SkylarImages Editor, Designer
Skylar Moran is a product of Muskegon, MI, and is currently located in Chicago, IL. He has attended University of Detroit Mercy, and Northern Michigan University. His primary profession is architecture, with specific interest in New Urbanism, sustainable design, and Vaastu Shastra. Other interests include disc golf, macrobiotics, and brewing beer. Skylar's hero, living or otherwise, is R. Buckminster Fuller.
He holds the fundamental belief that all people are inherently good. For Skylar, Gothic Funk is when, through a series of events, any expectations one might have previously held are so thoroughly exceeded that one must consider adopting a new model on which to base future expectations.