EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Trisha Cowen's life goal is to get stuck in an elevator with Toni
Morrison. While waiting for the fateful encounter, she spends her time
planning what she's going to say to Morrison while also finishing her
Ph.D in English and Creative Writing. Her fiction writing can be found
or is forthcoming in The Portland Review, Amoskeag, Bitter Oleander Press, and others. She's currently working on a historical fiction novel set in Japan during World War II.
Melanie J. Cordova considers northern New Mexico one of the most beautiful places in the country. She likes to see submissions that use magical elements as setting, not plot device, and handle magical elements in creative ways.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MANAGING EDITORS
Corey Pentoney
Kayleigh Wanzer
Corey Pentoney is looking for anything that is well-crafted and original in some way, with good characters and compelling prose, but gravitates towards the absurd, the ridiculous, and the fun. As a first-year Master's student in Creative Writing, he lives primarily on animal crackers and strawberry vanilla waffles.
Rachael Xerri
NONFICTION EDITORS
Jason Allen
Kayleigh Wanzer spends her free time telling people to listen to The
Mountain Goats. She looks for literary nonfiction with a strong and
unique narrative voice. Her areas of interest include memoir, gender,
and postcolonial theory. She is pursuing her MA in English Literature
with a concentration in Creative Writing.
POETRY EDITORS
Nicole Santalucia is pursuing a Ph.D. in English with a concentration
in creative writing. She founded a literary outreach program—The Binghamton
Poetry Project in 2011—and continues to work as the project’s Director.
She also assists the Director of The Binghamton Center for Writers. Nicole lived in Manhattan prior to Binghamton
and in 2008 she received her MFA from The New School University. She has received
honorable mention awards from Astraea Lesbian Foundation Writers Fund as well
as the Allen Ginsberg Award.
Abby E. Murray worked as a veterinary assistant in Atlanta before teaching
writing courses, where she restrained sweet but frightened dogs while
collecting small, moon-shaped scars. She seeks clarity and a confident handling
of metaphor in contemporary poems. Finishing Line Press
recently released her second chapbook, a collection of war poems titled Quick Draw: Poems from a Soldier's Wife,
which are based on her husband's deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. She
studied with Dorianne Laux, Peter Sears, Joe Millar, and Marvin Bell at Pacific
University, where she earned her MFA in 2009. Originally from the Seattle area,
Abby is currently earning her Ph.D. in English.
Dante Di Stefano
INTERNS
Kathleen Keogh
Shira Gelfand
