About
Is Greater Than is an eclectic online magazine established in 2007 that is devoted to discovering the unique, the unknown and the amazing in contemporary culture. Based out of Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA, we publish fiction, creative nonfiction, articles and columns by emerging talent around the country (and the world).
Our scope ranges from literature to speculative fiction and personal narratives to intimate reportage. Is Greater Than publishes a new work of fiction and a new work of narrative nonfiction every week, in addition to serialized comics and columns that cover topics as varied as art and design, independent music, cult film, and emerging and outsider literature.
We’ve been called “great” by the fine folks at Featherproof Books, “excellent” by Serial Consign, “a must read” by Futurosity’s Robert Ellis (who had other kind words to say) and received a rating of 8.8 out of 10 by the editors at Blogged.com.
Is Greater Than is a project of Warning Sign Media. Direct questions, comments or advertising inquiries to isgreaterthan at gmail.
Editors
Paul M Davis is a writer of articles, essays and fiction, a musician, and a web tinkerer based in Chicago, IL who is obsessed with the media, class and arcade-style video golf. His writing and other work can be found at www.paulmdavis.com.
Brigid Barry is a freelance editor based in San Francisco, CA. She also writes short fiction and cultural analysis, and knits in her spare time.
Columnists
Leland Cheuk is a currently an MFA candidate at Lesley University’s Creative Writing program. His writing has appeared in MostlyFiction, Punk Planet, and other publications. Recently, one of his short stories was selected as finalist in the 2007 Washington Square Review Contest. He lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel.
Leilani Clark writes, copy-edits, teaches and plays music in Santa Rosa, California. She blogs about books, music, culture and DIY radness at www.leilaniclark.com.
Lynette D’Amico is a recent transplant to Chicago from Minneapolis where she was an advertising copywriter and there were always more ideas. In Chicago she keeps her best ideas for her own damn work.
Levi Fuller makes and compiles music in Seattle, Washington. He has released three solo albums and 18 volumes of the compilation series Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly, and played in myriad bands. Levi writes a weekly series of blog posts for KEXP involving album covers. He also has a day job at a fantastic non-profit organization and designs and prints the occasional album cover or rock show poster. Sometimes he sleeps. www.denimclature.com
Matt Gajewski is a 24 year old native of Madison, WI who currently lives in Miami. He is the creator of Pure Imagination, a radio series featuring original short stories set to music by (mostly) Miami-based composers. All old episodes can be found at www.vangloria.net/pureimagination.
Cat Johnson is the publisher of House of Cat, a music, art and culture blog. She also contributes to several websites including JamBase, Streetlight Records and Is Greater Than. She is currently planning the takeover of her own life.
G.M. Levinson is the reviews editor for Make: A Chicago Literary Magazine and the guy behind the Book Bike, which you can read all about at Something To Read. As a producer, Gabe created The John & Bill Show (2007) and organized the test screening of Idiots & Angels.
Janina A. Larenas is a printmaker and food writer living in Santa Cruz, California. She works as a book buyer for a local independent bookstore, and spends her time making anything and everything she can by hand and from scratch. You can see her food writing at www.littleisobel.com/bramblings.
Laura Pearson is a Chicago-based writer and editor specializing in arts and culture reporting. She has contributed to Time Out Chicago, Chicago Reader, Punk Planet, Proximity, Gapers Block, and other publications. She is also Artist Story Coordinator for Chicago Artists Resource. As this blog (http://ourpresentworld.blogspot.com/) suggests, she is mostly into the kinds of things grandparents are into: meals, trips, trees, and making observations about the weather. Her website can be found at laura-pearson.net
R. John Xerxes is the man behind the prolific Love Bunni Press, a loose confederation of painters, artists, writers, photographers and designers who have been photocopying paper since 1988.
Michael Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is a co-founder and was fiction editor for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (2003-2009). He has produced and written for comedy revues at Second City’s Donny’s Skybox, The Viaduct, The Trap Door Theater, and the Apollo Theater Chicago. He is also a 2008 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient for Prose. Currently, he is working on a novel entitled Children of Orleans.
Contributors Past and Present
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