Brevity has no outside funding, no business plan, no actual budget. They exist merely to create a home for concise literary nonfiction of the highest quality.

In addition to their interns and outside readers, Brevity is edited by Dinty W. Moore .   
Moore has published two books of literary nonfiction, The Emperor’s  Virtual Clothes (Algonquin Books, 1995) and The Accidental Buddhist (Algonquin, 1997). He has written essays for The New York Times Sunday Magazine , the Philadelphia Inquirer ,Utne Reader , and The Philadelphia City Paper , and is the regular essayist for the journal Arts & Letters .