— Team Bios —

Camille Renshaw, Editor-in-Chief
Renshaw heads Pif, Inc., and is the co-founder of Pilot-Search.com and Zine-X.com. She oversees the editorial vision, financial performance, and development of the company’s three Web sites and print magazine.

Since Renshaw has been involved with Pif, she has attracted a list of contributors that includes Pulitzer Prize winners, recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, National Book Award winners, a recipient of France’s Prix Alph-Art, Pushcart Prize winners, winners of the O’Henry Award, recipients of the Whiting Grant, recipients of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, recipients of the Pen/ New England Award, and a winner of Israel’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. An area of importance for her is merging Pif’s Web sites with the print medium. As a part of this effort, she was the editor of The Best of Pif Magazine Off-line (Fusion Press, 2000).

Another one of Renshaw’s key areas of emphasis is Pif’s growth in circulation and advertising revenues. Under her leadership, Pif has increased its circulation from 2,000 readers per month to 100,000 readers per month. Also, all ad revenues over the past five years are due to new client relationships that Renshaw established with companies like Saatchi & Saatchi, Inc. (a NYSE public company and top advertising firm), Amazon.com (a NASDAQ public company and the largest online bookseller), F&W Publishers, Inc. (owners of STORY Magazine and Writer’s Digest), Eastgate Systems, Inc. (the premier hypertext publisher), and Alibris, Inc. (a $60 million corporation and the Internet’s largest used book seller). In 1996, she joined Pif and created its advertising department, implementing new ad strategies such as community ad banner systems and microsites. In 1997, she became the Fiction Editor as well. In 1998, she became a partner at Pif. Renshaw began her publishing career on the staffs of companies like Turner Broadcasting Systems and The Mining Company (now About.com).

Renshaw’s essays and fiction have been published in Word.com, The Mississippi Review, The Boston Review, ShortStory.org, Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Century (Crown, 2000), and other publications.

Renshaw co-chairs the Advertising, Promotion and Public Awareness committee for the Internet Literary Editors Fellowship, an organization aimed at developing and promoting literary community on the Internet. She holds a BA in English and Political Science from the University of Tennessee; a Battle of Normandy Fellowship from L’Abbeye d’Ardenne in Caen, France; and an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College.

Richard Luck, Chief Technology Officer
Luck is the founder of PifMagazine.com and co-founder of Pilot-Search.com and Zine-X.com. Pif’s mission, under the strong leadership of Luck, has been to design and develop Pif’s innovative online services and Web sites.

Luck has been in technical development for ten years, working with companies like The Natural Gardening Co., Illuminet, Inc., The Mining Company (now About.com), STORY Magazine, Writer’s Digest, and 15Minutes.com. Currently, he is the Web Producer/Project Manager of the Online Customer Care and Services Provisioning Portal at Bazillion, Inc. (a $50 million broadband communications company). He and his team of developers have developed several patent-pending web applications, including leading edge, self-administered communication services. He has experience working with PHP, Perl, JavaScript, XML, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and other Internet technologies.

Currently, Luck serves as the Treasurer of the Internet Literary Editors Fellowship and is a founding member of the Internet Writers and Artists Guild and Literary Renaissance. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Regents College of New York.

Jen Bergmark, Managing Editor
Bergmark began her career at Pif in 1998 as the Fiction Editor for PifMagazine.com. In 2000, she was appointed to Managing Editor of PifMagazine.com and aided in the content development of The Best of Pif Magazine Off-line (Fusion Press, 2000). She has published writers like Richard Yates, Julia Slavin, Michael Largo, Marcy Dermansky, Richard Weems, Avery Chenoweth, and Elizabeth Cox.

Bergmark has been in publishing and production for eleven years. She worked as an editor and contest judge for Merlyn’s Pen, the largest national print magazine of student fiction and poetry, for seven years. She also was editor of The Onion River Review, the bi-annual literary journal, for two years. Early in her career she was a staff writer for Childreach. Her fiction has been published in The Newport Review and The Blue Benn Review.

After graduating from Saint Michael’s College in 1990, Bergmark went on to study writing at UCLA and Brown University and took her MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. She is a member of the Associate Writing Programs, the Internet Literary Editors Fellowship, and the Internet Writers And Artists Guild.

Michael Burgin, Commentary Editor
Burgin is Associate Editor of the Business Nashville Magazine and has been Pif’s Commentary Editor for two years. In addition to his editorial work, Burgin annotates scripts for The Simpsons, Futurama, and other Fox and CBS sitcoms. He has a BA in English from the University of the South and an MA from MTSU in English/ Milton Studies.

Ann Doolittle, Poetry Editor
Doolittle has been Pif’s Poetry Editor since April 1998. Her poems have appeared in The Boston Review, Calyx, Conspire, and Zuzu’s Petals Quarterly, among others. Doolittle has an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College, an MA in Education from Vanderbilt, and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Sweet Briar College.