Editorial Team

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LA Miscellany is edited by a rotating team of LMU English students.

 photo Chuck Rosenthal
Faculty Advisor

Tom Klepper  Thomas Klepper
Editor-in-chief
Thomas Klepper was born in Buellton, Ca. He has received the Padma Sambhava Award for Literary Non-Fiction. He now lives and writes in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, California with a cat that is not his.

Sarah Jost  Sarah Jost
Copy Editor
Sarah Jost is a senior Theatre Arts major and English minor at Loyola Marymount University.  Her one act play Trajectory is being performed at LMU Sunday April 27 at 8pm.  She is moving to London after graduation in search of employment and inspiration.  This is Sarah's first published work.

 Derrick Derrick Fernando
Advising Editor
Derrick Fernando is a writer and Teaching Fellow at Loyola Marymount University. He attended LMU and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing. He is currently a full-time graduate student and teaches two sections within the Freshman English Program at LMU.

 Laurence DumortierLaurence Dumortier
Advising Editor
Laurence Dumortier grew up in Paris and London and now lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her stories have been published in One Story, Spork, and The Kennesaw Review, among others. She is a founding editor of Cloverfield Press.

 Mike Pettiti Mike Pettiti
Copy Editor
Born in Phoenix, Arizona and currently residing in Los Angeles. He has written music criticism for the Tucson Weekly. He hopes, someday, to publish his epic novel: a 24-hour Modernist jaunt through Dublin, layered with classical Greek undercurrents. The preliminary title: Ulysses Wild Dublin Hootenanny.

 Elizabeth Whitmore Elizabeth Whitmore
Design Editor
Elizabeth grew up in Texas, left when she was seventeen, and has since lived in Washington DC, New York City, London, and Los Angeles.