At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. We create ways for readers, listeners, and viewers to interact with noteworthy long work, and other publications have noticed. Among those who have recommended our writing and interviews are Harpers.org, NPR online, The Awl, VillageVoice.com, Longreads.com, and Longform.org, which called Thanassis Cambanis’ “The Decisive Ones” one of the year’s 20 best essays. Best American Poetry featured our selection of poems from Major Jackson’s Holding Company, and Best Music Writing included Nate Chinen’s “Direction Nowhere,” while the Pushcart Prizes gave Frankie Thomas’ “The Showrunner” Special Mention. Both “The Showrunner” and Alan Shapiro’s “Homeric Turns” have won Best of the Net awards.
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MASTHEAD
Jonathan Farmer, Editor-in-Chief & Poetry Editor
Jonathan Farmer founded At Length in 2003 as a quarterly magazine dedicated to long poems and stories, and relaunched it in 2009 as an online-only, print-friendly publication with added offerings in music, art, and photography. He lives in Durham, NC, and reviews poetry for Slate.com.
Belle Boggs, Prose Editor
Belle Boggs is the author of Mattaponi Queen, a collection of linked stories that take place along Virginia’s Mattaponi River. She is a recipient of a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council and a 2012 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, Orion, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and other publications. She lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.
Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching, Photography Editors
Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching are the owners of Klompching Gallery in New York, specializing in the exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art photography. Founded in 2007, their exhibits have consistently received critical reviews from publications such as The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Modern Painters, HotShoe, Art Review, and the British Journal of Photography. Together their involvement in the photo industry spans more than a decade, including the judging of numerous photography competitions, portfolio review events, and participation in panel presentations. They both contribute to online and print publications on the subject of photography, and do consulting for private collectors and photographers. In October 2010, they were the featured US curators with their photography exhibit, The Architecture of Space, for the inaugural Flash Forward Festival in Toronto.
Ehren Gresehover, Music Editor
Ehren Gresehover is a writer, editor, and social media consultant whose thoughts about music, pop culture, and robots have appeared in Salon, New York magazine, Bitch, and the Boy Culture Encyclopedia. He lives, works, eats, breathes, and sleeps in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Elaine Bleakney, Art Editor
Elaine Bleakney is a writer and editor living in Asheville, North Carolina. Her chapbook, 20 Paintings by Laura Owens, is forthcoming from Poor Claudia, and her first full-length collection of prose poems, For Another Writing Back, will be out from Sidebrow Books in 2014. Her poetry and prose have been featured in American Poetry Review, Sculpture, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She edited the pop-poem anthology Poem In Your Pocket (Abrams, 2009).
Lisa Shroyer, Business Manager
Lisa Shroyer is a magazine editor and book author, specializing in craft how-to writing. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Kendell Richmond, Community Manager
Kendell Richmond is a writer and communications specialist living in Durham, North Carolina.
Dan Kois, Founding Editor
Dan Kois is the author of Facing Future, a book for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. He is a senior editor at Slate and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his family.
Jeremy Keehn, Founding Editor
Jeremy Keehn is an Associate Editor of Harper’s Magazine. He previously served as Senior Editor at The Walrus, where he edited most of the magazine’s features. Prior to joining The Walrus in 2004, he worked as a researcher, reporter, and producer at CBC-TV in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and as an editorial assistant responsible for literature at TheTyee.ca, also in Vancouver.
Matthew Warland, Web Designer
Matthew Warland is the Design Director for NationalPost.com. Prior to joining The National Post, he worked as a web and interactive designer for Dose Magazine and Corus Entertainment.
ADVISORY EDITORS
Peter Campion
Julie Dickover
Kimiko Hahn
Matthea Harvey
Michelle Herman
Joanna Klink
Dana Levin
Meghan O’Rourke
Alan Shapiro
Evie Shockley
Kevin Young