Editor-in-Chief: Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD,DLitt (Hon)  Danielle Ofri is assistant professor of medicine at New York University, and practices medicine and teaches at Bellevue Hospital. Ofri's newest book, Medicine in Translation, is about the experiences of immigrants and Americans in the US health care system.  She is also the author of Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue and Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine. Her essays have been included in Best American Essays 2002 and 2005, and in Best American Science Writing 2003. Ofri's writings appear in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, and on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of the 2005 McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association for "preeminent contributions to medical communication." www.danielleofri.com

Senior Fiction Editor: Ronna Wineberg, JD, earned a BA from the University of Michigan and JD from the University of Denver. She is the author of Second Language, a collection of short stories. The book is the winner of the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition and was published in 2005. It was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for Books for Excellence in Independent Publishing. Her stories have appeared in American Way, Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado Review, Laurel Review, So To Speak, South Dakota Review, Sou’wester, Zone 3, and other literary journals. Her work has twice been a Finalist in the Moment Magazine Short Story Contest, a Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio. Wineberg’s essays have appeared in DAUGHTERS, Ethics in Criminal Justice (Wyndam Hall Press), River Oak Review, Steam Ticket, The Tennessean, and Writers on the Job (Hopewell Publications). She has been awarded a scholarship in Fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has taught writing at New York University and elsewhere, and she is the founding fiction editor of the BLR. Wineberg is the recipient of a 2004 fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her website is RonnaWineberg.com

Senior Nonfiction Editor: Jerome Lowenstein, MD is professor of medicine and former Chief of the Nephrology Division at New York University School of Medicine. He is the author of Henderson's Equation and The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine (New and Expanded Edition, University of Michigan Press, 2005) which tells stories about relationships between medical students and teachers, physicians and colleagues, and physicians and patients. He asks whether one can teach compassion, and examines the thesis that the brain has a "module" to process information presented in narrative form. He is Co-Director of The Patient Narrative, a program in which first-year medical students interview patients and write reflective essays. He is the recipient of the 2005 Davies Award from the American College of Physicians, recognizing his scholarly work in the humanities. Lowenstein is the Publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press.

Fiction Editor: Suzanne McConnell holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Arkansas and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Provincetown Arts,The Huffington Post, The Hamilton Stone Review, The Saint’s Ann’s Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, Green Mountains Review, The Little Magazine, Kalliope, The Fiddlehead, Personal Fiction Writing, Poets & Writers, Cape Women, A Sense of Place,and Discovery Channel Publishing’s Travel Series, among other venues.  She has been awarded residencies at Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony.  She teaches fiction writing at Hunter College, and will be the 2010 Scholar/Facilitator for the Literature and Medicine Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the VA Hospital of Lyons NJ. An excerpt from her first novel won Second Prize in So To Speak's '08 Fiction Contest, and the novel, Fence of Earth, a finalist for the James Fellowship for Novel in Progress, is now available for publication. Her website is www.suzannemcconnell.com

Poetry Editor: Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books, and Striking Surface, winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. He directs the Writing Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. (Photo credit: Star Black)

Managing Editor: Stacy Bodziak holds a BA in English Literature and Psychology from New York University, and an MA in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Publisher: Martin J. Blaser, MD is Frederick H. King Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Since returning to NYU, where he was a student, in 2000, he has developed several innovative educational programs. Among them, he has promoted narrative skills of medical housestaff, and writing skills of the medical students as an integral part of critical thinking. All students rotating through the Department of Medicine are required to write patient-based essays dealing with philosophy, ethics, humanities or scientific reasoning. Dr. Blaser established the Bellevue Literary Review as a forum for literature dealing with many of these same issues. Dr. Blaser divides his time between teaching, patient care, and research. His research focus, for more than 25 years, has been the role of bacteria in human diseases, as well as studies of their basic biology and evolution. He has authored more than 400 original papers, and was the president of the Infectious Disease Society of America in 2006.