Editor TERRY KENNEDY is the author of the poetry collection New River Breakdown and the limited edition chapbook Until the Clouds Shatter the Light That Plates our Lives, selected by Thomas Lux for Jeanne Duval Editions. His work appears in a variety of journals and magazines including Cave Wall, from the Fishouse, Waccamaw, and The Southern Review. He currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro Follow him on Twitter @terrylkennedy.

Poetry Editor EMILY A. BENTON is a former editor for The Greensboro Review and the University of Hawai’i Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as ZYZZYVA, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, and Southern Poetry Review. Raised in Tennessee and a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, she lived and worked in Hawai’i from 2012 to 2020. She now resides in Georgia. Find her online at www.emilyabenton.com 

Fiction Editor JEN JULIAN is a writer, dabbling illustrator, and transient North Carolinian. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in Fiction from UNC Greensboro. Her debut short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, was the winner of Press 53’s 2018 Fiction Prize and published in the same year. Recent fiction and essays have appeared in or are upcoming in Wigleaf, Milk Candy Review, X-R-A-Y, Okay Donkey, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, JuxtaProse, and TriQuarterly, among other places. She is a 2016 Clarion alumna, fond of sci-fi and fairy tales, ambient music, true crime, orchids, and listening to you tell your ghost stories. She and her fluffy ginger cat currently live in the mountains of northern Georgia, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Young Harris College. You can find her online at https://jenjulian.com/.

Creative Nonfiction Editor CYNTHIA NEARMAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Guilford College where she teaches first-year writing, creative nonfiction, travel writing, rhetoric & composition, and contemporary American literature. As a writer, she works in various genres—academic scholarship, cultural commentary, and personal essays—focusing mostly on things like literacy, racism, and love.

Managing Editor MADDY PORTER is a poet and writer originally from Traverse City, Michigan. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UNC Greensboro where she serves as an Editorial Assistant for The Greensboro Review.

Contributing Reviews Editor SHAWN DELGADO earned his B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture from Georgia Tech and his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he currently teaches. He is the author of the chapbook A Sky Half-Dismantled (Jeanne Duval Editions). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Courtland Review, Connotations, The Greensboro Review, Five Points, Ghost Ocean, Terminus Magazine, and elsewhere.

Contributing Interviews Editor EVAN FACKLER has served as editor-in-chief of Oxford Magazine and as a fiction editor at The Greensboro Review. His reviews and interviews can be found online at Entropy Magazine and storySouth.

Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor ROSE HIMBER HOWSE is a queer writer from North Carolina. She’s currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a Steinbeck fellow at San Jose State University. She earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in Joyland, Hobart, The Carolina Quarterly, Sonora Review, YES! Magazine, and elsewhere.

Associate Poetry Editor LUKE JOHNSON is the author of After the Ark (New York Quarterly Books, 2011). His poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. His work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and has twice appeared in the Best New Poets anthology. He is a graduate of Elon University, and the M.F.A. program at Hollins University. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. https://lukejohnsonpoet.com/

Assistant Poetry Editor CORY MAC PHERSON is a graduate of UNC Greensboro with an MFA in poetry, where she served as Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review and Programs Coordinator for Write On! Greensboro. Since graduating in 2015, she has published two books for a library-bound circulating non-fiction series: Inventions in Reading and Writing: From Calligraphy to E-readers and Inventions in Visual Art: From Cave Paintings to CAD. She is currently living in Wilmington, North Carolina where she is working on her first manuscript of poems, which focuses on the Korean-American adoptee experience.

Associate Poetry Editor JASON McCALL holds an MFA from the University of Miami. He is an Alabama native, and he teaches at the University of North Alabama. His collections include Two-Face God; Dear Hero,; Silver; A Man Ain’t Nothin’; Mother, Less Child; and I Can Explain. He and P.J. Williams are co-editors of It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop.

Associate Poetry Editor NATASHA OLADOKUN is a Cave Canem fellow, poet, and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Pleiades, IMAGE Journal, Indie Film Minute, Bearings Online, and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hollins University, her MFA alma mater.

Assistant Fiction Editor PATRICIA PATTERSON is a Mexican-American writer based in North Carolina. She holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro, where she served as a fiction editor for The Greensboro Review. Her stories are featured in PANK, wildness, Platypus Press, and elsewhere. Patricia is currently at work on a collection of short stories that inhabit small corners of Mexico, North Carolina, and California.

Assistant Poetry Editor CAT ROBINSON is a writer and poet from South Carolina. A former poetry editor for The Greensboro Review, their work investigates how the experiences of the self and vaster concepts in life are reflected on and through the body.

Assistant Fiction Editor LEIGH CAMACHO ROURKS is a Cuban-American author who lives and works in Central Florida, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Beacon College. She is the recipient of the St. Lawrence Book Award, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the Robert Watson Literary Review Prize, and her work has been shortlisted for several other awards. Her fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, TriQuarterly, December Magazine, and The Greensboro Review. http://lcrourks.com/

Contributing Reviews Editor WESLEY SEXTON has poetry and reviews in the Adroit Journal, the Connecticut River Review, the Connecticut River Review, the Indianapolis Review, Fire Poetry, The Rumpus, and storySouth. You can find him online at https://wesleysextonpoetry.wordpress.com/.

Assistant Poetry Editor GREG TREDORE holds his MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he served as the Assistant Poetry Editor on The Greensboro Review. His poems have appeared in journals such as Illuminations, The Inkling, and The Voice. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Georgia Military College.

Assistant Poetry Editor JENNIFER WHITAKER is author of The Blue Hour. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. She has won an Academy of American Poets prize and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes. She currently serves as Director of the University Writing Center at UNC Greensboro. https://jenniferlynnwhitaker.com/

Assistant Poetry Editor PJ WILLIAMS teaches in North Carolina. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, his poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, Salt Hill, and others. New work appears in Frontier Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop (Minor Arcana Press). He holds degrees from Elon University and the University of Alabama.