Editor-in-Chief: Mary Akers's short story collection Women Up On Blocks won the 2010 IPPY gold medal for short fiction. The non-fiction book she co-authored (One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others) has been published in seven countries. She earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and although raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia—-which she will always call home-—she currently lives in western New York. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (**Note: submissions sent to this email will not be considered. All work must be submitted through our online form here.)
Assistant Editor, Non-Fiction/Poetry: Joan Hanna was born and raised in Philadelphia. Joan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University. She is the Assistant Managing Editor of River Teeth, A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Her poems have appeared in Common threads, the inaugural issues of Modicum, Glassworks, and the 15th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology. Joan’s book reviews have appeared on Author Exposure, The Ashland University MFA Blog and Poets' Quarterly. Follow Joan on her blog: Writing Through Quicksand.
Fiction Editor: Maria Robinson earned her BA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and has done graduate work at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was the fall 2008 writer-in-residence at the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation and has recently been awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review, the cream city review, Spork, and Pindeldyboz among others. She currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Fiction Reader: Katie Phillips is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a regular contributor to the She Negotiates blog at ForbesWoman. She lives in Los Angeles. You can find out more at her website: http://www.katie-phillips.com
Poetry Reader: Joan Albarella is author of the Niki Barnes Mystery Series: Close To You, Called to Kill, and Agenda for Murder; four books of poetry: Mirror Me, Poems For the Asking, Women, Flowers, Fantasy and Spirit and Joy; plus over two-hundred individual poetry, article, and short story publications. She has written three plays Mother Cabrini’s Mission to America, Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies and Killing Mr. Scott. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, The Dramatist’s Guild, and Poets and Writers.
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