The 1998 staff includes Director Margarita Donnelly, Managing Editor Micki Reaman, Senior Editor Beverly McFarland, Promotion Coordinator Teri Mae Rutledge, Accounting Coordinator Ronley Duncan, and Shipper Michele Schuman. Sixteen interns provided more than 2,000 volunteer hours in 1997. Interns came from: Antioch College, Evergreen College, Lewis & Clark State College (Idaho), Linn-Benton Community College, Miami University of Ohio, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Kutztown University and Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, Western Oregon University, and Corvallis Community Consortium.

In 1997, 42 volunteers (not including interns) contributed more than 1800 hours to support CALYX's work. The volunteers include experienced, regular Journal Collective Editors who read and choose prose and poetry manuscripts and choose art for the Journal. Many final decisions are made in group meetings. Other regular volunteers serve as copy editors and proof readers. Still other volunteers help with data input, the processing of manuscripts, filing, mailings, filling orders, and moving boxes of books and archives. Some volunteers helped with fund raising, an ongoing, critical activity. In 1997 intern and volunteer hours totaled more than 4,000, equivalent to two years of full time work.