Arbutus was first launched in the year 2000 by Jeremy Voigt
and Jordan Hartt, two undergraduate creative writing students at Western
Washington University.
The first issue of Arbutus—at the time we were still publishing
in "issues," a leftover publishing concept used by print journals—went
live in the fall of 2000, and issues were published bi-annually from
2000 to 2005.
Arbutus went on hiatus in 2006 in order for the editors to, respectively,
begin raising a one-year-old child and, again respectively, launch
a print magazine called Experience, and is now celebrating its seventh
year.
Editor bios
Jordan Hartt holds degrees from Western Washington University and the
University of Idaho, where he also taught English for three years. He
is currently building a house in Port Townsend where he works for Centrum,
Port Townsend's multidisciplinary arts and education organization. Work
has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Black Zinnias, and Colere.
Jeremy Voigt has a MFA
from Bennington College. He lives in Bellingham, Washington.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, RHINO, Arabesques
Review, and Tiger Tail.