CONNOR COYNE
Director

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.

Connor's work has been published in the Santa Clara Review, the Moria Poetry Zine, the Flint Broadside, the Dick Pig Review, and the Saturnine Detractor. He is a contributor to the literary blog bkish, a cofounder of Chicago's Gothic Funk Nation and the editor-in-chief of its arts journal, The Paramanu Pentaquark.

He maintains a website at connorcoyne.com.

ELISABETH BLAIR
Editor

Elisabeth is a folk vocalist and songwriter. She's released one homemade demo album, Country of Origin. It includes songs inspired by the Halifax Explosion of 1917, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and the Futurist movement, among other bits and pieces. She also writes music for artists who perform in theatre, puppetry, art and magic.

In addition to her own songs, Elisabeth has performed classical, bluegrass, and traditional folk music, and co-formed a folk noir band called House & Bird (2007-08) who put out a 5-song EP, what do words know. She has performed as lead vocalist in several performance art pieces in venues such as The Chicago Cultural Center and Chicago’s Links Hall. From 06-07 she was a guest vocalist for many live shows and on the debut album of Chicago-based eco-bluegrass group The Giving Tree Band. In 2008 she co-wrote and performed an historically-based musical, A Soldier Of Three Wars at the Peter Jones Gallery.

Her influences include Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes, Hans Zimmer, Chris Bathgate, Bob Dylan, Björk, John Williams, Yann Tierson, Sandy Denny, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Yma Sumac, M. Ward, Great Lake Swimmers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Billie Holiday, Iron & Wine, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Cloud Cult, Sufjan Stevens, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and her very talented friends: 
Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Krystee Wylder,
Will and his band Teenage Rage
Vocalist/songwriter/pianist Jessica Fogle.

JESSICA COYNE
Proofreader

Let's see... Jessica lived in Ohio for 18 years, Chicago for six, New York for two and change, and back to Chicago again. She loves sharks, yellow sunglasses, convertibles, watermelons, and fireworks. I hates washing dishes, riding public transportation, and mean people. She thinks Indiana Jones is the ultimate fantasy date. She calls everyone "dude." She listens to both great and dweeby music. She's going to name her third child "Boblem." She doesn't keep in touch very well. She never searches for the perfect parking spot. She doesn't (usually) go for outlaw bikers. She's bought two cars, sold two, held around a dozen jobs, gone into massive debt, performed for thousands, written a novel, been published several times (unrelated to the novel), won medals, helped deliver babies, and spent a night making homemade lederhosen.

SKYLAR MORAN
Publicist

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.

SAM PERKINS-HARBIN
Designer

Sam is messing around with book covers for the Gothic Funk Press right now. He's probably designing them a little bit too. He wishes he were sailing, RIGHT NOW. With goggles & c.

When he's not hating zombies or coding, he can be found at Steampunk Chicago, the Undead Report, Forge22 Design, or at the Gothic Funk.