The Dirty Napkin is an online literary journal that was created in August 2007 by J. Argyl Plath and Christopher Goodrich. It seeks to publish the best Poetry, Fiction, and Letters in four issues a year. What are the best poems, fiction, and letters, you ask? Well, thankfully we have a rather wide submission base and so we get to approach this question fresh with every issue.
Mission
To create an active community of exceptional writers via an online literary journal. We believe that writing cannot be separated from the voice, breath, and personality of the author. Further, we feel that if a piece of writing is separated from this literal voice much power is lost. Therefore, we seek to include this voice by providing recordings of each author reading their work.
The Dirty Napkin Staff
J. Argyl Plath
Managing Director, Co-Creator
J. Argyl Plath has been in the arts for most of his life and plans to keep it that way.
Katie Schmid
Poetry Editor
Katie Schmid is a first year student in the University of Wyoming's Creative Writing MFA program. Her poem "Jobs" was recently selected for Meridian's Best New Poets of 2009 anthology.
Stephanie Dugger
Associate Poetry Editor
Stephanie Dugger (v3.2– ) is a student in the MFA program at the University of Wyoming. She writes poetry and nonfiction and lives nomadically with her husband and two rambunctious dogs.
Katie Liesener
Fiction Editor
Katie Liesener (v2.1– ) subsists as a freelance writer and adjunct writing instructor in Boston. Her favorite fiction is that her freakish Boggling talents may someday prove lucrative (once our society learns to value its artist and Bogglers). Until then, she enjoys exploiting her teaching position, and this bio, as a shameless bully pulpit: semi-colons are sexy!
Abigail Mallin
Associate Fiction Editor
Abigail Mallin (v3.1– ) is a fiction writer and poet, who has had proclivities toward words and paper from an early age. Being an English major and going to grad school for Creative Writing and Literature has perpetuated this obsession. She likes contradictions, boundless borders, and shades of black. You will find her reading, writing, and exploring possibilities around Philadelphia: with a cup of coffee most likely, or a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, sometimes a beer. She has a complicated relationship with white-pawed cats.
Tim Rhomberg
Letters Editor
Tim Rhomberg is currently living a semi-adult married life, just north of Chicago. Previously, he served as a contributing editor to Millikin University's Collage and was a member of the Like a Fox Players. His other productions and creations featured large cardboard costumes and/or dislocated shoulders. There is hope that his two rabbits will soon reside in a shared dwelling, as their two cages are filling up that spot where the love seat is going to be.