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Title: Assistant Editor, Book Reviews
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education: B.A. (English)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I'm a rose. Too much attention makes me blush. And how else could I explain my irrational fear of potpourri?

Title: Assistant Editor, Community Forum, Awards Staff
Location: Chicago, IL
Birthplace: Indianapolis, IN
Education: Diploma (HS), some college, media relations & child education
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am and can be both a rose and a thorn. Most of the time I am a rose, sweet, nice to be around, but I can be stubborn, spoiled and want things my own way and don't cross me or my family. You better watch out.

Title: Prose Editor
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Birthplace: Chelsea, MA
Education: Diploma (Visual Arts)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I'm a rose because I greet people with a smile, blush a lot, and smell good.

Title: Co-Blog Manager
Location: Irvine, CA
Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan
Education: M.F.A. (Creative Writing)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am a thorn that looks like a rosebud: camouflage = survival.

Title: Editor, Procedures Manager, Announcement Newsletter Editor
Location: Olympia, WA
Birthplace: Hillman, MI
Education: A zillion technical schools covering a wide variety of subjects
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Definitely a thorn. Why? Because I come quickly to the point, no matter who gets hurt.

Title: Content Producer, Interviewer
Location: Lubbock, TX
Birthplace: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Education: B.A.
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Thorn, no question. I’m grumpy, irritable, and yet intolerably cute.

Title: Assistant Editor, Book Reviews
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Birthplace: Portsmouth, VA
Education: B.A. (English) plus various workshops and writing classes
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Most of the time I'm a rose, but I can be plenty thorny when the situation demands it!

Title: Senior Editor
Location: Mission, TX
Birthplace: McAllen, TX
Education: B.A. (English), M.S. (Library Science)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I say thorn, but I keep thinking of Gertrude Stein: "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." I am what I am what I am what I am.

Title: Assistant Editor, Blog
Location: Lake Arrowhead, CA
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Education: Diploma (English)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I was a thorn in my younger years, not allowing anyone to come too close. Now I am a rose because I open up, am sweet and like to smell good.

Title: Senior Editor, Graphics Manager, Community Forum Administrator
Location: Somewhere North by Northwest of Chicago
Birthplace: Chicago, IL, Terra, Solar System, Outer Swirl of the Milky Way
Education: No formal degrees - just a free range iconoclast
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am definitely a thorn because, as a heretic coyote, I am determined to challenge all those presumed fables upon which our society relies to keep us all in line. Case in point: http://www.uponfurtherreview.com/

Title: Assistant Editor, Community Forum, Proofreader, Squiddo Liaison
Location: Birmingham, AL
Birthplace: U.S.S.R.
Education: B.S. (English), paralegal training
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am neither a rose, nor a thorn. I am a rock, solid rock, solid foundation. When translated from Greek, my name "Peter" means rock, i.e. strong-willed person.

Title: Assistant Prose Editor, Awards Manager
Location: Berkeley, CA
Birthplace: Palo Alto, CA
Education: B.A. (International Relations)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I can only quote my grandmother who was a poet. Once we were walking through her prolific rose garden in December, among all the bare bushes. She said to me, “Thank goodness for winter. We’d never notice how beautiful the green parts of the plants are.”

Title: Co-Blog Manager
Location: Orlando, FL
Birthplace: Abilene, TX
Education: B.S. (Psychology)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Absolutely a thorn. You can’t be a good proofreader without being sharp, prickly, spinose, and—as in the fourth sense of the word as defined in Merriam-Wester—(4) something that causes distress or irritation.

Title: Co-Managing Editor, Nonfiction Editor, Newsletter Editor
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Birthplace: Baton Rouge, LA
Education: B.A. (Journalism), M.A.T. (Elementary Special Ed.) in progress
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Depending on the day, I'm either a rosy thorn or a thorny rose.

Title: Co-Managing Editor, Newsletter Editor, Poetry/Prose Editor, etc.
Location: Western NC
Birthplace: Charleston, WV
Education: B.A. (English & History) in progress
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? A delicate soft rose - okay, I'm lying. At first glance, that's what you will think you see, but while your attention is diverted by petals and soft scent, you reach reach reach, and zapity do dah day, I've drawn your blood.

Title: Assistant Blog Manager, Podcast Manager
Location: Sweden
Birthplace: Banja Luka, Bosnia
Education: Ph.D. (English Literature) in progress
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I'm a rose, old-fashioned red. Not sure why.

Title: Assistant Editor, Fiction/Nonfiction
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
Birthplace: Dunfermline, Scotland
Education: A.A. (Liberal Arts), B.A. (English), M.F.A. (Fiction) in progress
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? As a Geminian, I have to admit that I can be a rose and a thorn - simultaneously!

Title: Poetry Editor, Newsletter Editor
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Education: Self-educated in Literature, Art History & Music
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Probably a rose except when I first wake up, then a king-size thorn.

Title: Prose Editor, Fiction/Nonfiction
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Birthplace: Rochester, MN
Education: B.A. (English), B.S. (Nursing)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I try to be a rose, friendly and all that, but have been known to show my thorns when provoked!

Title: Assistant Editor, Prose
Location: Carbondale, IL
Birthplace: Mount Vernon, IL
Education: B.A. (Creative Writing & Psychology) in progress
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Depends on present state of mind: manic or depressed, but mostly manic.

Title: Publisher, Co-Managing Editor
Location: Montebello, NY & Bradley Beach, NJ
Birthplace: Bronx, NY
Education: B.A., J.D.
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Seen through rose-colored glasses and in a certain light, I could be mistaken for a rose. I could. Sure I could! Roses are carnivores, aren't they?

Title: Prose Editor
Location: Akron, OH
Birthplace: Akron, OH
Education: B.A. (English)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? That depends on what kind of day I'm having.

Title: Assistant Poetry Editor
Location: Birmingham, AL
Birthplace: Decatur, AL
Education: B.A. (Political Science)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am a rose, but I have a few thorns! They come in handy for opening rejection letters, poking naysayers, and warding off wild animals.

Title: Assistant Poetry Editor
Location: Omaha, NE
Birthplace: Natrona Heights, PA
Education: A.A. (Liberal Arts), B.A. (English), M.A. (English)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I am a dulled Thorn with sweet fragrances of the White Rose when softness touches me, for the stem is the human blend. 

Title: Assistant Editor, MySpace Manager, Awards Staff
Location: Fife, Scotland, UK
Birthplace: Lafayette, IN
Education: Student of Life
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? A friend of mine once said that he thought I was a wallflower when he first met me, but had changed his opinion. When I asked him why, he very promptly answered, "You opened your mouth." I guess the best answer is that I'm a rose in thorn's clothing.

Title: Cover Commentator, former Poetry Editor
Location: York, England
Birthplace: Doncaster, England
Education: B.A. (Literature & Art History)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? A thorn - sharp and usually on the receiving end of a curse.