About Us

Jason has a penchant for starting things, but they endure only in response to a present need. His relevance is tested relentlessly. He was educated at a remote brotherhood deep in the Shawangunk Mountains and emerged from seclusion to found Luminary Publishing with a guiding admonition in view: "don't quit." He was recently chosen by his son, Asher Osiris, to become a father, for which he feels deeply grateful. In addition to guiding the business life of Luminary Publishing, Jason personally pens the Esteemed Reader column in each issue of Chronogram.

Amara founded Chronogram with Jason Stern in 1993 in hopes of creating something with which to buttress her epitaph. Amara is a publication designer and has a thing for unusual spices. Her most recent find is Nigella, a small black seed with a pungent, warming flavor sometimes mistakenly called black cumin.

Brian Mahoney moved to the Hudson Valley in the late 80s to attend SUNY New Paltz and fell in love with the natural wonder and cultural muscularity of the region. Since becoming editor of Chronogram in 1997, Brian has endeavored to keep Chronogram's fiercely independent content lively and engaging, expanding what was once a pocket-sized events calendar into a dynamic outlet for advocacy journalism and cultural reportage, part of the vital independent press operating outside the corporate media paradigm. The mission of Chronogram is to serve as a forum for diverse and underrepresented voices, highlight progressive politics and social justice initiatives, to foster creativity and social change, and to be one of the "diverse and antagonistic sources" in the media spectrum that Justice Hugo Black wrote was "essential to the welfare of the public."
In addition to day-to-day editorial duties at Chronogram, Brian writes a monthly column and pens the occasional feature story. Brian's work has also appeared in Dolce Vita, T Magazine, and the Alternative Press Review. Brian is a regular contributor to the Roundtable, the Albany NPR affiliate's (WAMC) morning program. Brian lives with his partner Lee Anne in Kingston and rides his bicycle to work in the warmer weather whenever he can.

David Perry has been a part of the extended Chronogram family since 1995, when he delivered the magazine and covered local music in the 'zine within a 'zine, Ferocity.  Since then, he has designed books for presses small and large, and written and recorded under various monikers. He now owns a book publishing company, Empty Press, and a band name, The Primary Color.

When not wandering the streets of Baghdad, Lorna Tychostup can be found hiking, biking and swimming in her beloved Shawangunk Ridge environs or being trained in the finer points of human kindness by her dogs Boomer and Max. A freelance journalist and photographer, she also acts as Chronogram's Senior Editor, our News & Politics editor and foreign correspondent. Her work centers on issues of war, peace, democracy, Islam, and feminist issues. Although she has traveled and written about the US, Mexico, Morocco and Jordan, Iraq remains her current steadfast love. Her photographs of Iraq have been exhibited throughout the US and her presentations have informed audiences from NY to Oregon. Interviewed extensively, on both radio and TV, including Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" and NBC's "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," her work has appeared in Foreign Policy, YES!, Z Magazine, Covert Action Quarterly, War Times, and Major League Baseball Magazine.

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Born in the West and always looking for that sunset over the ocean and flowers in winter, Lorrie is blending a few decades of life as a hard-core scientist with passions for writing, film, painting, and the Big Questions of spirit. Her most important message to get out there: Nature is sacred and part of everyone's soul.

Nina Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her screenplay Labor of Love and has edited eleven theatre anthologies for Vintage Books and Viking Penguin; her first novel Clearcut will be published by Anchor Books in August 2005. She is Artistic Director of Actors & Writers, an Olivebridge-based readers' theatre whose mission statement, in its entirety, is "Nothing By Andrew Lloyd Webber." She lives in The Vly with her daughter Maya, a somewhat golden retriever, and too many books.

"keep the channel open. no artist is pleased. there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. there is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." - martha graham

Eric Francis began writing his Planet Waves horoscope column in 1995, and soon after that Chronogram began publishing it. Having graduating from being the Hudson Valley's 'muckraking PCB journalist', Eric is now a full-time professional astrologer and writer for many publications. A former long-time resident of New Paltz, he now lives in Paris.

Yulia Zarubina was born in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Eleven years ago she and her family moved to lovely Ithaca, New York. Yulia graduated from SUNY New Paltz college with BFA in Graphic Design and has moved up in the company from a production designer to her current position. She lives in Kingston with her husband, Tim, and their two cats and a turtle.

Julie Novak is a musician, performance artist, visual artist and graphic designer living in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley. She is a core touring memeber of Arm of The Sea Theatre and is currently working on recording with her band, Guitars & Hearts, playing drums and singing along with bassist Kate Walker and guitarist, Lauren Camarata. Check out the radical gender coloring book Julie recently created with friend Jacinta Bunnell at GirlsNotChicks.com. She is enjoying her new position as production designer for Luminary Publishing.

Kiersten started her employment with Luminary Publishing as a graphic design intern from SUNY New Paltz in the Spring Semester of 2005. She fit so well here that she couldn't bear to leave after graduating from college and has come on full time in the Production Department. Her favorite color is red, and her astrological sign is Capricorn. She loves her new Apple Powerbook. She lives in Poughkeepsie and has a boyfriend named Dave. This is all we really know about her so far because she's pretty quiet and sort of keeps her thoughts to herself. As we learn more about her, we'll post it here for all of you.

Jamaine and her family of creative souls are recent transplants to these Northern parts, trading the funky town of Memphis, TN for the clean air and natural beauty of the Catskills. Her background includes editing and creating cookbooks, motion-picture production assistant, high-end catering, and working on late-night television car ads. She knows she owes a big karmic debt for the car ads and hopes that working at Chronogram will pay that debt down a bit.

Lisa is married and has a grown son, Michael. She and her husband, Jeff, are very excited about the new home they just purchased in Cairo, Greene County. Their cat, Max, seems enthused, but then again it could just be boredom; Max is kind of hard to read. Lisa enjoys board games, show tunes, all kinds of movies, and reading. She and her husband are avid book collectors, rivaling the number of volumes in the nearby Cairo Library. She has always wanted to visit England and meet her distant relatives there.

A Hudson Valley native, Justin grew up in Washingtonville.  He studied Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy before "scratching an itch" and earning his BFA in Music Production & Engineering from Berklee College of Music.  Justin considers himself a "working musician," and would prefer to be back on the road either engineering or performing (drums being his forte).  Justin likes to think he extends the communal nature of Chronogram by using community-developed open source software wherever possible at Luminary Publishing.