Co-founder Eric Zassenhaus loves collecting interesting stories and prying out embarrassing anecdotes of the city. Once upon a time , he worked as the Web Coordinator for City Lights Books and Publishers and edited several independent magazines. Now he works in the news industry and tinkers with websites on the side. He has self-published many chapbooks, ‘zines, and magazines in the past many years; his work has appeared in print, online, and on air.

Editor Gravity Goldberg received a Masters in English, concentration in Creative Writing at SFSU in 2007. She works as festival manager for Litquake. Her fiction is published in Watchword, Strange Tales, Transfer, and the SF Bay Guardian lit section. She’s also written for SFGate, Morbid Curiosity, Tempe Crime Wave, Panache, SFBG, and Stretcher. As an undergraduate, Gravity was fiction editor of Transfer. She has lived in San Francisco since 1993

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Art Director Mitche Manitou is a freelance graphic designer and product-namer and artist. He received his BA in graphic design at the University of Florida. He has lived in San Francisco since 1990.

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Suzanne Kleid is a contributing editor to Instant City and to Other Magazine. She is the book reviewer for KQED.org, the online incarnation of San Francisco’s NPR affiliate. In 2004 she co-edited the anthology Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category. She is a floor supervisor at City Lights Bookstore, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Believer, Pindeldyboz, and Watchword.

Christopher Williams recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Francisco State with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in English Literature. He is working with Instant City to gain experience in the world of publishing and because, as a writer, he feels that Instant City is instrumental in adding a distinctly San Francisco flavor to this city’s writing community. He has also had his fiction appear in Transfer.

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Chanté Mouton Kinyon is a masters student at the University of San Francisco. She currently works at Chronicle Books.

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Ana Maria Ventura is a San Francisco-based writer, English teacher, and copy editor extraordinaire. She likes books, beer, and traveling.

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Managing Editor Riki García Rebel received her MA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Cal State Long Beach. She has taught Spanish language and literature, as well as English as a Second Language at home and abroad. Currently she’s taking time off from teaching to raise her baby daughter and pursue an MFA in fiction at San Francisco State.

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Website design by Eric Zassenhaus, Lisa Pickoff-White. Based on Mimbo theme, supported by Wordpress. With many thanks to designer Joe Moulian.