Patterson’s prose has recently appeared in Colorado Review, Texas Monthly, Image, Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, and other journals. Her awards include two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies, a Texas Commission on the Arts fellowship in nonfiction, and grants from the Brown and Plum Foundations. In 1999, she founded Iron Horse Literary Review, and she serves as copy editor for the journal Creative Nonfiction. From 2003-2007, she directed the San Juan Writers Workshops in Ouray, Colorado. Today, she has a growing interest in social justice literature and serves as the case storyteller for the West Texas Regional Public Defenders office, where she specializes in both state and federal capital murder cases.
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Lee Martin Fiction Editor
Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; two other novels, River of Heaven and Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know; and two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones. His next novel, Break the Skin, is forthcoming soon. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Story, DoubleTake, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and many others. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
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Dennis Covington Nonfiction Editor
Covington is the author of two novels and three nonfiction books, including Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Georgia Review, Redbook, the Oxford American, and other periodicals, and his work has been widely anthologized in the U.S. and translated into eight languages abroad. His most recent book is Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of an American Dream. He has won the Rea Non-Fiction Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Carrie Jerrell Poetry Editor
Jerrell’s debut poetry collection, After the Revival (Waywiser Press, 2010), received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Subtropics, Image, Passages North, and Fringe, as well as in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. She received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, where she was a Chancellor’s Fellow. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Murray State University.
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Aaron Alford Managing Editor
Alford is pursuing a Ph.D in the creative writing program at Texas Tech. His work has recently appeared in River Teeth and The Los Angeles Review.
Brent Newsom Managing Editor
Newsom’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Subtropics, Cave Wall, Tar River Poetry, New Delta Review, and Best New Poets 2010. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant and the Foley Poetry Prize, as well as a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the creative writing program at Texas Tech.
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Patterson’s prose has recently appeared in Colorado Review, Texas Monthly, Image, Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, and other journals. Her awards include two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies, a Texas Commission on the Arts fellowship in nonfiction, and grants from the Brown and Plum Foundations. In 1999, she founded Iron Horse Literary Review, and she serves as copy editor for the journal Creative Nonfiction. From 2003-2007, she directed the San Juan Writers Workshops in Ouray, Colorado. Today, she has a growing interest in social justice literature and serves as the case storyteller for the West Texas Regional Public Defenders office, where she specializes in both state and federal capital murder cases.
Fiction Editor
Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; two other novels, River of Heaven and Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know; and two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones. His next novel, Break the Skin, is forthcoming soon. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Story, DoubleTake, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and many others. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
Nonfiction Editor
Covington is the author of two novels and three nonfiction books, including Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Georgia Review, Redbook, the Oxford American, and other periodicals, and his work has been widely anthologized in the U.S. and translated into eight languages abroad. His most recent book is Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of an American Dream. He has won the Rea Non-Fiction Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Poetry Editor
Jerrell’s debut poetry collection, After the Revival (Waywiser Press, 2010), received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Subtropics, Image, Passages North, and Fringe, as well as in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. She received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, where she was a Chancellor’s Fellow. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Murray State University.
Managing Editor
Alford is pursuing a Ph.D in the creative writing program at Texas Tech. His work has recently appeared in River Teeth and The Los Angeles Review.
Managing Editor
Newsom’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Subtropics, Cave Wall, Tar River Poetry, New Delta Review, and Best New Poets 2010. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant and the Foley Poetry Prize, as well as a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the creative writing program at Texas Tech.
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