This is the Foundation's current Board of Directors

Officers:

CJ Kearns, Director
With a B.A. in philosophy from Bloomsburg University, CJ returned to Ohio to attend graduate school for even more philosophy. In 2004, CJ founded JKPublishing with the notion of supporting local writers.

Erin Wiles, Vice-Director:
Erin hails from the great state of Ohio, where she nourished her ambitions to become the deftest wordstress and most maniacal grammar nazi in the Midwest. A graduate of Ohio University with degrees in English and French, she is proud to have seen JKPublishing and Designated Space through their early lean days. Currently residing in St. Louis, she reads with the Get Born open mic and edits programs for Upstream Theater. She is busy writing a screenplay and co-creating Vestige, a community arts project to be launched on Cinco de Mayo. Erin has written 2 chapbooks: I & Apocalypse (May 2006) and Fractals (forthcoming; September 2008), both published by JKPublishing of Athens, OH. She loves her mother, her cats, Vonnegut, and language probably more than anything else in the world.

Zac Fulton, Treasurer

Board:

Marged Howley, Educator
Marged Howley is a West Virginia native who spent time in Seattle, WA honing her performance voice after graduating from Marshall University with a BA in English in 2000. She loves watching writers grow, she loves the sound of a perfectly placed vowel. Marged is getting her M.A.T. in Middle Childhood Education at Ohio University and will move to rural northern WA state after that, to focus on writing and learning to survive the coming apocalypse. Marged believes that everyone has a right to be heard, and so she dislikes when people interrupt her on airplanes, after they've asked her a question. What're they thinking? That she'd be up for a quickie in the bathroom? Nope-- not even you, nice Christian Lady. I'm wise to your wiles. In any case, Marged believes that everyone has a right to be heard, and that this right to a hearing carries with it an inherent responsibility to know what the heck you think. That's one of about a thousand reasons Marged is becoming an educator. Marged's writing is heavy on the imagery and interested in difficult emotions. Go figure.

Justin Carel
Dave Donovan
Chris Crews, Founder, rvmedia
Jon Taylor