About storySouth

Editor TERRY KENNEDY is the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro and Founding Editor of Spring Garden Press. His work appears in variety of journals and magazines including Cave Wall, from the Fishouse, Waccamw, and The Southern Review.

Fiction Editor DREW PERRY is the author of the novel This Is Just Exactly Like You (Viking Penguin 2010). He has published work in Atlanta Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Nebraska Review, Willow Springs, and New Stories from the South, among other places. He teaches in the undergraduate creative writing program at Elon University.

Poetry Editor JULIE FUNDERBURK is a native North Carolinian. Her poems appear in literary magazines such as Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, 32 Poems, and roger: an art & literary magazine. Her work is included in the anthology Best New Poets and has appeared on the Web site Verse Daily. She has been a Howard Nemerov Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and teaches at Queens University of Charlotte in NC.

Creative Nonfiction Editor CYNTHIA NEARMAN has been the Writing Director at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, since 2004. 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. Her husband is a magician, and they live in a happy little cottage with their two yellow dogs & one bossy cat.

Associate Poetry Editor MARTIN ARNOLD is the author of A Million Different Glittering Catastrophes (Pavement Saw Press, 2011). His poetry has been published in Crazyhorse, Poetry East, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He teaches in the English Department at Guilford College.

Associate Poetry Editor LUKE JOHNSON is the author of After the Ark (New York Quarterly Books, 2011). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, New England Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and has twice appeared in the Best New Poets anthology. He received a B.A. from Elon University and an M.F.A. from Hollins University.

Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor KATHRYN WALKER’s family has been in North Carolina for a couple hundred years. She lives in her hometown of Greensboro, NC, with her husband and two dogs and two cats. In addition to writing things, she likes to read, listen to music, and make cards out of trash.

Web Editor ANDREW SAULTERS is a lecturer in the First Year Writing Program at Guilford College. Despite having what his father calls a “big city accent,” he’s from Phenix City, AL.

MATT FIANDER is a graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro, where he served as the assistant fiction editor for The Greensboro Review. He is a fiction writer, and has had work appear in The Yalobusha Review. He is also a music critic for PopMatters, and a contributor to Prefix Magazine. He currently lives in Boston and spends his days fruitlessly explaining to people up there the difference between “cookout” and “barbeque.”

STEPHANIE WHETSTONE is a lecturer in the English Department when she’s at UNC Greensboro and a fiction writer when she’s in Durham, NC. She has lost track of all the hats she is supposed to wear, but they’re around here somewhere. She went to Duke for the basketball and UNC Greensboro for the writing program. She was also a fiction editor for The Greensboro Review. Stephanie is from Kentucky, which is why she talks like that.

A graduate of the UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program, JEREMY AUFRANCE has had poems published in Red Rock Review and Backwards City Review. He lives in Greensboro with his wife and children.

EMILY A. BENTON is a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, where she also edited poetry for The Greensboro Review. Her work has appeared in Kestrel, Cellpoems, and Marco Polo, among other journals, and was a finalist in Yemassee’s 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Contest. A native of Tennessee and a longtime resident of North Carolina, she now lives and writes on the Big Island of Hawai’i. She keeps telling herself, “poi is the new grits.”

ANGIE DeCOLA’s poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and won prizes from the Lynda Hull Memorial and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg foundations. A pastry chef and freelance food writer, she lives in Greensboro, NC.

ADAM TARLETON received his MFA in poetry from UNC Greensboro in 2003. His poems and reviews have appeared in the Hudson Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Poet Lore. Currently, he is employed as an attorney in private practice in Greensboro, NC, where he lives with his wife, Melissa, and their two sons.

JENNIFER WHITAKER is a lecturer in English and assistant director of the University Writing Center at UNC Greensboro. 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.