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Title: Assistant Editor
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
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: Senior Editor, Newsletter Editor, Co-Managing Editor
Location: Chester Springs, PA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Education: B.A. (History)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? Well, the blush is definitely off this rose, so I'd have to say that I am now more of a thorn - sharp and tough.

Title: Editor, Procedures Manager & 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: Assistant Poetry Editor
Location: NC
Birthplace: Royal Oak, MI
Education: Diploma (High School)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I don't suppose / you could ever have / the rose / without the thorn. / As a thorn, I am stubborn, / as a rose, I am kind. / Sometimes, I am / forlorn, / and other times, I can / paint the sky.

Title: Content Producer & Newsletter Editor
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
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
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
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: Prose 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: Senior Editor & Senior Newsletter Editor
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 Editor
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
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
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: Assistant Editor
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Birthplace: New York, NY
Education: B.A. (English), M.A. (Film & TV Critical Studies)
Are you a Rose or a Thorn, & why? I suspect I'm more of an artichoke, thorn bound to petal, getting softer the deeper in you go.

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
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.