Lostwriters.net

Daniel Patrick Schmergel was born on the affluent and turbulent shores of Long Island, New York. Well, not actually on the shores (due to health code regulations), but in a hospital nearby. He has considered himself a writer for as long as he can remember. At the age of five he produced his first novella, entitled Danny's Big Book of Fears. A catalog of one boy's neuroses, Danny's Big Book of Fears failed to find a publisher, although Woody Allen did consider purchasing the film rights. Undeterred, the young man continued his quest for literary glory.

Daniel graduated from Colgate University in 2001 with a BA in Creative Writing. At Colgate, he served as the music critic for the Colgate Maroon News and completed his first novel, Living in Architecture. Though substantially more realized than Danny's Big Book of Fears, Living in Architecture also failed to find a publisher. Forlorn, desperate, and with no where else to turn, Daniel spent two years working as the Director of Advertising and Head Writer for one of the largest commercial real estate firms in the Country. With mere shards of his soul intact, Daniel escaped the fluorescent lights and Internet addiction of the corporate world in 2004, when he was accepted to the MFA program in Fiction at Sarah Lawrence College.

In 2005, Daniel devised the initial concept for LostWriters.net. Feeling that some of the best writers and thinkers of his generation were not getting their due, he decided to create a home for "lost writers" Daniel will graduate from Sarah Lawrence this May. He is presently completing his third novel, A Life Worth Living. He is also working on several television pilots and comic book spec scripts. It is Daniel's fervent dream to help revive the flagging power of writers and intellectuals in America today.
Or to publish his novel; whichever comes first, really.

Margel Smit Nusbaumer was born in New York and spent her childhood traveling and living in Asia, Central America, and Europe. Languages studied include Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Spanish, and French. In 1994, she returned to the United States and lived in New York, New Jersey, and California. Margel went to Vassar College (for all four years) and graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy in 2003. After working in freelance event planning in NYC for a few years, Margel moved to Bloomington, Indiana, to attend the Indiana University Graduate Program in Creative Writing, where she is currently pursuing her MFA.

manusbaumer (at) lostwriters (dot) net

In this photo, Lev AC Rosen is not screaming due to a fish tank being dropped on his foot, but is doing what today's youth refers to as
rocking out." While there is no audio to accompany the photo, we can assume that Mr. Rosen is singing loudly and off key and while doing what today's youth would call "grooving," which in more colloquial language means swaying his body to the music. Mr. Rosen, being the youngest of the editors felt it necessary to demonstrate the habits of today's youth in his photo, or so he says.

Lev was born and raised in NYC and plans on conquering the world by age 30 through a combination of charm, good looks and an army of trained penguins with missile launchers. He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has been published in Esopus magazine. Lev is an ordained Pagan Minister, but is currently lacking a flock to which to preach, due to all the time spent on penguin training. You can still catch him occasionally worshipping on the subways.

He is the only single editor, so if you're so desperate to get your stuff onto Lostwriters that you're willing to sleep with someone, he's the one to start with. He also enjoys bribes of good champagne. If you're genuinely wondering who he is, more info can be found at www.levacrosen.com.

LRosen (at) Lostwriters (dot) net

Paula Sadok was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. A Middle-Eastern Jewish mutt, her ancestors hail from Syria, Yemen, Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan. (Translation: She does not speak Yiddish.)

Paula holds a BA in English from Columbia University. After a brief and boring stint in the corporate world, she backpacked extensively through Europe and Southeast Asia, lived in Curacao, and then drove across America. Having decided that working sucks, Paula decided to indulge in her childhood dream of becoming a writer. Now that she is on the verge of completing her first novel, Leaving Egypt, and finishing the MFA Fiction program at Sarah Lawrence, she realizes she will have to get a job anyway. If Paula did not already have an adorable husband, with whom she lives in Brooklyn, she would use this site to solicit sugar daddies.