Lisa Bowden is the Publisher and co-founder of Kore Press. She is the editor of Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies, and co-editor with Shannon Cain of Powder: Writing by Women in Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Most recently Lisa co-adapted, directed and produced Coming in Hot (a play based on Powder). A poet who works with dancers and musicians, Lisa is also a book and graphic designer, garnering a few design awards along the way, including an ADDY. She has served on non-profit boards for 20 years, and currently is on the advisory board of Girls Write Now. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Lisa has spent time in London and Barcelona.

Colleen Runyan is the Business and Marketing Manager for Kore Press. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Arizona in May 2010, and interned for Kore Press as an Office Manager in 2009-2010. In her time at the University of Arizona, Colleen managed a forty-student call center for the University of Arizona Foundation as well as the Information Services Department in the Arizona Student Unions. These days, when she is not marketing Kore Press publications or brewing coffee, Colleen writes, reads, runs, and bicycles.

Patti Hadad is the Editorial Assistant. She is an MFA student at the University of Arizona specializing in Fiction. She has experience as an arts writer for the Austin Chronicle, worked for the independent book store in Austin called BookPeople, and has been an Editorial Assistant for American Short Fiction for nearly three years. She is also currently an Assistant Fiction Editor at the Sonora Review. Patti will be doing a year-long editorial internship with Kore starting in January 2010.

Jennica Smith graduated from the University of Arizona's Visual Communications program with a BFA in illustration. She was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and now resides in Tucson. She is currently the production and design intern for Kore Press. Her interests include bookmaking, letterpress, art history, and ink.
Nhu Tien Lu is the Grrls Workshop Program Coordinator. She received her BA in Women's Studies and English from Bowdoin College and her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Michigan. Her MA in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz focused on nonfiction stories about gender and sexuality within the U.S. military, a chapter of which was published in Junctures. Nhu Tien worked in Alaska and Nebraska as a domestic violence and sexual assault advocate, and most recently as a community educator on issues of racial and social justice.
Shannon Cain is Kore Press' fiction editor. She is the co-editor, with Lisa Bowden, of Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 2008) and the co-adaptor of Coming in Hot. She is the recipient of a 2006 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2008 O. Henry Prize and a 2009 Pushcart Prize. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and now teaches fiction writing at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Before coming to Kore Press in 2004, she worked for a decade as a chief executive in the nonprofit sector.