Meghan Murphy

Editor-in-Chief/Lead Designer
Co-Founder

Meghan makes pretty things and has long hair. Hearts cats.

As Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Meghan curates the aesthetic and voice for the magazine. Her primary responsibility is to stalk incredibly talented artists and writers and beg them to submit their work. If you find an email from her in your inbox, please be nice to her and give her everything she asks of you. As the lead designer for Paper Darts, her duties include illustrating content and making the website and print magazine as pretty as possible.

In real life, Meghan works from a very small desk in Minneapolis as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.

email:  meghan@paperdarts.org 
twitter: @cloudcarvings

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Jamie Millard

Executive Director
Co-Founder

Jamie mostly tells people where to sit. Then tweets about it.

As Co-Founder and Executive Director of Paper Darts, Jamie brings to the octopus her delight for big picture, strategic planning, and results oriented action plans--ultimately working to strengthen and build capacity for the arts sector. When not working on Paper Darts, Jamie is a Client Relationship Manager at Fast Horse and she also serves on the Board of Directors for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. When not collaborating on new, exciting ventures (which is rare), you’ll find Jamie walking her dogs or drooling over the newest tech gadget or video game.

email: jamie@paperdarts.org
twitter: @jjmillard

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Courtney Algeo

Editorial Director

Courtney has red hair, tattoos. Totes Adorb.

As Editorial Director at Paper Darts, Courtney Algeo gets to read each and every piece that is submitted for potential publication. Whether the work is published or not, each piece lives on in her mind as an exceptional experience. 

Well-known throughout the Twin Cities as a literarti celebrity, in her non-PD working hours Courtney is the full-time Marketing Coordinator at The Loft Literary Center.

email: courtney@paperdarts.org
twitter: @IceCrmSocialite

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Holly Harrison

Marketing Director

Holly wears glasses, wields commas. Has a sensitive nose.

Holly's role at Paper Darts combines the solitary and pseudo-social. She copyedits all print and online content, weighs in on everything that comes through the slush pile, and helps to mold Paper Darts through developmental edits and solicitations. Holly steers Paper Darts' marketing and social media ship—tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and mistaking Internet engagement for actually meeting people. By day, Holly is the Communications and Accounts Manager at Lake Street Council. When not working or Paper Darting, she lines her wallet with freelance writing and editing and is as likely to pick up a video game in her downtime as a book. Maybe a bit more likely to pick up a video game than a book, truth be told.

email: holly@paperdarts.org
twitter: @hollharris

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Matt Beachey

Managing Editor of Pollen

Matt's job involves making you smile, hate, and love Paper Darts. Matt Beachey is catlike. Not in terms of grace or poise, but more in the way that cats prefer to lay in the sun most of the time. Basically a house cat. But he resists these slothful urges with a self-implemented Tom Cat demeanor, which calls him to explore his neighborhood and beyond. One day he wandered up to the Paper Darts headquarters (doesn’t actually exist, don’t go looking for it) and found a cozy stoop to nap on. When he awoke, a bowl of milk was left out for him. Now he returns often.

email: matt@paperdarts.org
twitter: @McBeachey

Alyssa Bluhm

Editorial and Marketing Intern

As Editorial and Marketing intern, Alyssa studies and delivers a one-two punch of what makes Paper Darts rad. When she isn’t digging up new artists and writers to feature or tweeting up a storm on Paper Darts’ account, she studies journalism at the University of Minnesota, where she is also Managing Editor for The Wake Student Magazine. Alyssa is a huge word nerd when it comes to the German language, and writes children’s books auf Deutsch in her head when she does boring things like waiting for the bus.

email: alyssa@paperdarts.org
twitter: @alyssabluhm

Morgan Halaska

Managing Editor

As Managing Editor, Morgan gets to read her little heart out. Outside of Paper Darts, Morgan works full time as a Project Coordinator at Tiger Oak Publications and is the Assistant Arts Editor at the Twin Cities Daily Planet in her free time (she e-mails a lot). She comes from Milwaukee and enjoys good and medicore beers alike.

does boring things like waiting for the bus.

email: morgan@paperdarts.org
twitter: @mergbird

Dakota Sexton

Genre Editor

When not reading exciting stories or reporting as a Genre Editor for Paper Darts, Dakota is attracted to half-baked travel plans like a Derby pony is to an apple. She also likes to pursue "rugged" activities at work, but will always remain an impressionable nerd and a prominent giggler. You can catch sight of her honing her craft as a web designer in warm and fragrant places throughout the twin cities. 

email: dakota@paperdarts.org

Ann Tozer

Exhibition Coordinator

As Exhibition Coordinator Ann gets to support the awesome artists of Paper Darts in showing their work in the Storefront for Storytellers project.

By day, she pursues the research interests she developed in her years as a curator working on the jewelry collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

 

email: ann@paperdarts.org