Friday, 25 September 2015 17:08

Staff

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    Robert S. King

    Editor-in-Chief and Publisher


    Robert S. King has published poems in hundreds of magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Pirene’s Fountain, Midwest Quarterly, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Negative Capability, The Hollins Critic, Chattahoochee Review, Sow’s Ear, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Atlanta Review, etc. He has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are The Hunted River and The Gravedigger’s Roots, both from FutureCycle Press, 2012; One Man’s Profit (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013); Diary of the Last Person on Earth (Sybaritic Press, 2014); and Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014). Robert has been editor and publisher of several literary magazines: former Director of FutureCycle Press; former president and editor-in-chief of Whistle Press, Inc., among others. For more information, see Robert’s website at www.robertsking.com.

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    Joan Colby

    Associate Editor for Poetry and Flash Fiction


    Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch, and Prairie Schooner. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards, Rhino Poetry Award, the new renaissance Award for Poetry, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She was a finalist in the GSU Poetry Contest (2007), Nimrod International Pablo Neruda Prize (2009, 2012), and received honorable mentions in the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Contest (2008, 2010). One of her poems is a winner of the 2014 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. She is the editor of Illinois Racing News and lives on a small horse farm in Northern Illinois. She has published 14 books including Selected Poems from FutureCycle Press, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize; Properties of Matter, Aldrich Press (Kelsay Books); Bittersweet, Main Street Rag Press; and The Wingback Chair, FutureCycle Press. She has two chapbooks forthcoming: Ah Clio from Kattycompus Press and Pro Forma from Foothills Press as well as a full-length collection, Ribcage, from Glass Lyre Press. Colby is also an associate editor of Kentucky Review and FutureCycle Press.

  • Mike James

    Associate Editor for capstone writing services


    Mike James has appeared in over 100 magazines throughout the country. The most recent of his seven poetry collections are Elegy in Reverse (Aldrich Press, 2014) and Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011 (Main Street Rag, 2012). Mike has previously served as an associate editor at Autumn House Press and as a Visiting Writer-In-Residence at the University of Maine, Fort Kent. After years spent in South Carolina, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Georgia, he now makes his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife and five kids.

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    Helen Losse

    Associate Editor for Poetry


    A former English teacher, Helen Losse was educated at Missouri Southern State University (BSE, 1969), where she majored in secondary education and English and Wake Forest University (MALS, 2000), where she studied African American history and religion and creative writing. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Facing a Lonely West, Mansion of Memory, Seriously Dangerous, and Better With Friends. Her poems have been anthologized in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, Kakalak 2014, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina. Her poems have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and three times for a Best of the Net award, one of which was a finalist. The former Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, she is now an Associate Poetry Editor for Kentucky Review, lives in Winston-Salem, NC with husband, and is currently working on a book of poems, Every Tender Reed, that documents (and embellishes) her recent conversion to Roman Catholicism.

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    Marie Lecrivain

    Associate Editor for Poetry and Flash Fiction


    Marie Lecrivain is the editor-publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a photographer, and is writer-in-residence at her apartment. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Edgar Allen Poet Journal, Maitenant, A New Ulster, Spillway, The Los Angeles Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and others. She’s the author of The Virtual Tablet of Irma Tre (© 2014 Edgar & Lenore’s Publishing House), Love Poems…Yes… REALLY… Love Poems (© 2013 Sybaritic Press), and she’s the editor of the forthcoming anthology Near Kin: Words and Art inspired by Octavia E. Butler (© 2014 Sybaritic Press). Her avocations include alchemy, alternate modes of transportation, H.P. Lovecraft, Vincent Price, steampunk accessories, and the letter "S."

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    Ken Craft

    Associate Editor for Poetry


    Ken Craft teaches 8th-grade English and the Humanities in a school west of Boston. His poetry has appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Off the Coast, Angle Poetry, Petrichor Machine, and many other journals and ezines. His first collection of poetry, The Indifferent World, will be published by FutureCycle Press in 2016.

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    Sara Clancy

    Associate Editor for Poetry


    Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the Desert Southwest. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, Antiphon, Verse Wisconsin, Turtle Island Quarterly, VAYAVYA and Houseboat, where she was a featured poet. She lives in Arizona with her husband, their dog and a 23-year-old goldfish named Darryl.

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    Lee Passarella

    Associate Editor for Poetry and Flash Fiction

    Lee Passarella acts as senior literary editor for Atlanta Review magazine and served as editor-in-chief of Coreopsis Books, a poetry-book publisher. He also writes classical music reviews for Audiophile Audition. Passarella’s poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, Louisville Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Umbrella, Slant, Cortland Review, and many other periodicals and ezines. Swallowed up in Victory, Passarella’s long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, was published by White Mane Books in 2002. It has been praised by poet Andrew Hudgins as a work that is "compelling and engrossing as a novel.” Passarella has published two full-length poetry collections: The Geometry of Loneliness (David Robert Books, 2006) and Redemption (FutureCycle Press, 2014). He also has a chapbook, Sight-Reading Schumann (Pudding House Publications, 2007). Lee's first YA novel, Storm in the Valley, was released by Ravenswood Publishing in 2015. The sequel will appear in 2016.

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    Rachel L. MacAulay

    Assistant Editor for Kentucky Review and FutureCycle Press

    Rachel is a Jersey girl who lived abroad in England and Israel before returning to her roots in the Garden State. She started in publishing in NYC before applying her editing skills across other industries and states. When not traveling or dreaming of traveling, Rachel writes for AutismAwareness.com, Scripted and ChallaandHaggis.com; the latter site playing host to her musings, flash fiction and poetry. She shares her home with three humans, two musical cats and a dog.

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