About Us

Editor-in-Chief

Benjamin Harris hails from Saratoga Springs, NY, where he developed a love for reading outside and a penchant for writing on any surface he could find.  He currently lives in Troy, NY and is a graduate student and tutor at the College of Saint Rose, where he studies English with a focus on composition theory and rhetoric.  He works on Thoughtsmith in an attempt to open up more avenues for writers to be published; that young writers might explore their craft further is Ben’s greatest wish.

Editors

Erienne Rojas earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry at the City College of New York where she also received a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Jewish Studies. She was awarded the Bear River Writer’s Conference Scholarship for Poetry in 2006. Erienne was recently a featured poet in the Polestar Poetry Reading Series alongside D. Nurkse and Suzanne Gardinier and she served as a speaker on the publicity and promotion panel at Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference.She has worked in book publishing for five years. Her work has appeared in print and online, including Poetry in Performance, Slice, Ibero-American Magazine, Spanglish Magazine, The Write Place at the Write Time, Me Magazine, The Sacramento Book Review and Mused, the BellaOnline Literary Review.  Her poem ‘Maqui-Loca’ is forthcoming in PostModernism(e) Journal.  She is currently working on a compilation of poetry centered on women and madness.

Jonathan Hall is currently a graduate student in Albany, NY.  He has a BA in English from Siena College in Loudonville, NY and is pursuing his MA in English at The College of Saint Rose.  His primary focus is writing poetry, and other areas of interest are Victorian literature and gender theory.  He is currently at work on his first book-length collection of poetry, an exploration of physical trauma and its impact on the psyche.  He is taking suggestions for the title.

Editors Emeritus

Kat Biskind (2.1 – 2.4) lives off-grid in Upstate New York, in a house she and her husband built themselves. She has an Associate’s degree in Individual Studies, focusing on pre-veterinary and general education courses, from Hudson Valley Community College.  She has a BA in English, with a minor in Psychology, from the State University of New York at Albany. She has been composing poetry and prose for as long as she has had the use of language.  The most recent publication of her own work, that she is willing to admit to here, was in Threads. Her areas of interest include psychonalysis, gender studies, and literature and science.

Seth A. Smith (1.1 – 2.4) is a writer and student currently living in Albany, NY. He, too, is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, with a B.A. in English. Although he is primarily interested in short fiction (such as the work of Franz Kafka), Seth is a lover of literature in general, from the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the dense novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. While at SUNY Adirondack, Seth served as a student editor of Expressions, the college literary magazine, where he developed a love for helping to spread the work of talented writers. Seth is a firm believer in the importance of community in the arts, and hopes that Thoughtsmith will serve to inspire artists of all kinds through the dissemination of interesting, contemporary work.