Advisory Board
        Catherine Ingrassia, English Department chair
        David Wojahn, MFA director of creative writing
        
        
		
        Clint McCown, MFA faculty
        representative
      Kathy Graber, MFA faculty representative
      Josh Eckhardt, faculty representative
      David Latané, faculty representative
      Bryant Mangum, faculty representative
      
      
Sponsors
      Virginia Commonwealth University, Michael Rao, 
        President
      The College of Humanities & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University
      Virginia Commonwealth University Department of English
      
    
Founding Sponsors
    The Virginia Commission for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts
Design
      
        Special thanks to Ronnie Sampson and Nancy Martin 
        of Viridian for the original logo and site design.  And to Patrick Vickers, Ryan Cales, Greg Krull, and Bri Spicer, our thanks for our current logo. Special thanks to Bri Spicer for her work on the logo and for her design of the 10th anniversary logo.
Technology Support, Virginia 
        Commonwealth University
        Humanities and Sciences Technology Services 
    John Skaritza, John Seo, Mike Dunham, Ramont Reed, James Archer, Logan Bishop &  staff.
Virginia Commonwealth University Technology Services
      especially the help provided  in support of the Blackbird Submission Manager software.