Editor: Ivy Page, Poet/Editor/Professor
Ivy is a nationally published poet who holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on Poetry. She teaches writing in a variety of forms at numerous colleges throughout New Hampshire. Her first book Any Other Branch will be available through Salmon Poetry of Ireland in late 2012. Her second book, Elemental, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2014.
Associate Editor: Cinnamon Stuckey, Poet/Editor
Cinnamon holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on Poetry from New England College, and an MBA! By day she is a technical editor, and by night...a bird that can't be caged.
Assistant Editor: Lisa Sisler, Poet/Editor/Professor
Lisa Sisler’s poetry has been described by Brian Henry as, “urgent, skillful, and necessary. [Lisa’s] poems are fiery, command your attention, and, for however disturbing or painful or difficult her poems can be, they often seek and ultimately achieve a sort of cathartic alchemy that we can find only in poetry.” Lisa is the editor of Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other, a poetry anthology from Birch Bench Press, an imprint of Write Bloody Books in April 2011. She received her MA in English from Rutgers University and her MFA in Poetry from New England College. She teaches Writing and Literature at Kean University and at various other colleges in New Jersey where she resides with her boyfriend and their cat army.
Web Layout and Design: Stephen Page, Poet/Web Guru
Stephen is a web programmer/designer and the owner of Tin Can Web Works, a small web design company in northern NH. He also is a talented poet and has experience in competitive slam poetry. He is currently completing a BS in IT, with a minor in creative writing at Plymouth State University.
Layout and Design/Art Editor: Beth Page, Illustrator/Designer
Beth
holds a BFA in Illustration. She worked as a prototypist at Cranium,
Inc., and won the Bronze award from the Society of Illustrators of Los
Angeles for 2008 Editorial Illustration. She is currently working on her MEd, TESOL at Plymouth State University. Check out some of her work at www.bethapage.com.
Current Guest Editor(s):
Jenn Monroe, Poet/Editor/Professor
Jenn Monroe strives to be a poet of love, in all its forms. She has faith in the world, despite its many failings, and enjoys guiding students at Chester College of New England on their own journeys through writing. Jenn is a founding and continuing member of the regional Dead Dogma (Wildly Inappropriate) Poetry Workshop, and has seen her work most recently accepted by Caper Literary Journal, Chamber 4 Literary Journal, Danse Macabre, and Sakura Review among others.
Jenn holds a bachelor's degree from St. Bonaventure University, a master's degree from The College of Saint Rose, and a master's of fine art degree in poetry from New England College. She lives, writes, and loves in New Hampshire.
Intern(s):
Armine Pilikian is currently a junior at Stanford University pursuing an English Degree, with creative writing emphasis. She works as the literary editor for the campus magazine The Stanford Arts Review and as communications assistant for the Humanities Center. She loves the written word in all of its forms, including comic strips and foreign proverbs.
Past Guest Editors:
Terry Lucas, Poet/Editor
Terry Lucas was born in the Midwest, grew up in New Mexico, and has lived in the San Francisco bay area for several years. Three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, his work has been published in several on line and print journals including MiPOesias, Ocho, Poets & Artists, Columbia Poetry Review, Solo, Buffalo Carp, Fifth Wednesday Journal and Grain Magazine , among others. He received his poetry MFA from New England College in 2008, and currently serves as an assistant editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal.
Dorinda Wegener, Poet/Editor
Dorinda Wegener holds a MFA from New England College where she was a Joel Oppenheimer Award recipient. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Marlboro Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and The Bitter Oleander. She is actively seeking a literary press for her first poetry collection, All I’s and O’s. As a child, Dorinda lived in Robert Frost’s first NH home prior to his famous farm.