Leslie Pietrzyk, Editor, is the author of two novels, Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon) and A Year and a Day (William Morrow). Her short fiction has appeared in many journals including The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, and The Sun. Read more at her literary blog, Work in Progress, and her website.
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Deborah Ager is author of Midnight Voices (2009) and co-editor of Old Flame: The First Ten Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) and The New Promised Land: An Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013). Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, New Letters, New South and in the anthologies No Tell Motel, Fire on Her Tongue, and Best New Poets. She received the Tennessee Williams Scholarship and, later, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She’s received additional fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She’s founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Ager is a director of the Miller Cabin Poetry Reading Series in Washington, DC. Visit: http://www.deborahager.com.
Marlin Barton is from the Black Belt region of Alabama. His most recent book is a novel, The Cross Garden (Frederic C. Beil, 2011). Barton’s collection of stories, The Dry Well (Beil, 2001), received the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award for the best first volume of short stories published that year. Other books include a novel, A Broken Thing (Beil, 2003), and a second collection of stories, Dancing by the River (Beil, 2005). His stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Best American Short Stories. He teaches in, and helps direct, the Writing Our Stories project, a program for juvenile offenders in Alabama. He also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College.
Stephen A. Ello has over 25 years experience as an association executive for both non-profit professional and trade associations in the healthcare, semiconductor and financial services industries. He is currently president and CEO of a for profit subsidiary of a national trade association located in Washington, DC. The company declared its ninth consecutive dividend to its member shareholders in 2011. In addition to serving on the board of directors of the company, he is also vice chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Business Services Board of Directors and has served on ASAE’s audit committee. He has completed coursework in non-profit association management and recently participated in the St. John’s College Executive Seminar programs. Steve is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, with a concentration in history and English. His passion for the Boston Red Sox began during Yaz’s Impossible Dream season of 1967, and every year during the Super Bowl he reenacts Bart Starr’s goal line plunge in the Ice Bowl. Steve enjoys reading novels and short stories about men unraveling and, on some days, wishes he still had that silver cap pistol and leather holster he purchased at Kresge’s.
Joseph M. Schuster is the author of the novel The Might Have Been (Ballantine 2012). His short fiction has appeared in Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review and New Virginia Review, among other journals. He has been a John Atherton Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. Twice his short fiction was cited among the "other distinguished stories" in Best American Short Stories. He lives outside St. Louis, Missouri, and is a member of the faculty of Webster University. More information at his website (www.josephschuster.com). Photo by Sarah Carmody Photography.
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Steve Kistulentz is the author of two collections of poetry, Little Black Daydream (2012) and The Luckless Age (2010. His narrative nonfiction—mostly on the subject of popular culture—has appeared widely in journals. His honors include the Benjamin Saltman Award for The Luckless Age, as well as fellowship support from Writers at Work, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and an individual award from the Mississippi Arts Commission. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins University; the University of Iowa, where he was the Joseph and Ursil Callan Scholar; and the Florida State University, where he was an Edward and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellow for Excellence in Thought. He currently teaches at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he directs the Millsaps Visiting Writers Series.
Joseph M. Schuster is the author of the novel The Might Have Been (Ballantine 2012). His short fiction has appeared in Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review and New Virginia Review, among other journals. He has been a John Atherton Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. Twice his short fiction was cited among the "other distinguished stories" in Best American Short Stories. He lives outside St. Louis, Missouri, and is a member of the faculty of Webster University. More information at his website (www.josephschuster.com). Photo by Sarah Carmody Photography.
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~FORMER BOARD MEMBERS~
Inaugural Board
2011-2012
2011-2012
Sandra Beasley is the author of three books: I Was the Jukebox, which won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize; Theories of Falling, which won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize; and Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a memoir and cultural history of food allergies. She lives in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Matthew Worden)
Rachel Hall teaches creative writing and literature at the State University of New York at Geneseo where she holds the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. New fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Water~Stone Review and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. She has received honors and awards from New Letters, Lilith, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is completing work on a linked collection of short stories entitled HEIRLOOMS.
Anna Leahy won the Wick Poetry Prize in 2006 for her book Constituents of Matter (Kent State University Press) and was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference in 2011. She has published two chapbooks, and her poems appear regularly in literary journals. Her fiction appeared last year in Fifth Wednesday Journal, and an essay from her memoir-in-progress appeared this year in The Southern Review. Lofty Ambitions, the blog she co-writes (http://loftyambitions.wordpress.com), launched in July 2010. Leahy edited the collection Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom (Multilingual Matters), which initiated the New Writing Series. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. at Ohio University. Leahy teaches in the M.F.A. and B.F.A. programs at Chapman University and directs Tabula Poetica, including its annual fall reading series. Additional information about Anna Leahy can be found at www.amleahy.com.
Susan Tekulve is the author of three short story collections: Savage Pilgrims, Wash Day and My Mother’s War Stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Best New Writing 2007, The Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, Another Chicago Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, Webdelsol, Black Warrior Review, Contemporary World Literature and The Kansas City Star. She has been awarded the Winnow Press Award in Fiction, a Sewannee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship, the Editor’s Choice Award in Best New Writing 2007 and an AWP Intro Award. She served as a book reviewer for BOOK Magazine for five years, and she continues to contribute book reviews to academic journals, including The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner and New Letters. An Associate Professor of English, she teaches in the BFA and MFA in creative writing programs at Converse College.
