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fiction / creative nonfiction editor
Jason Sanford
poetry editor
Jake Adam York
associate poetry editor
Dan Albergotti
special feature editor
Ashley Johnson (Poets Under 30 Feature)
For contact information regarding submissions, please see the guidelines page. For issues not related to submissions, please contact Jason Sanford.
staff biographies
To quote Jason: "I was born and raised in the American south—a location where many of my stories still reside. In writing my stories and in editing this magazine, I am attempting to reach an understanding between who I am as a person, who we all are as a people, and how history, present, and possible future events interact with the lives we all lead."
Jason is a former senior editor with Meadowbrook Press, a commercial publishing company distributed by Simon & Schuster. He's also worked as the director of programs at SASE: The Write Place, a non-profit literary organization in Minneapolis. He is the winner of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and his stories have been published in magazines such as the Mississippi Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Ache Magazine, and Pindeldyboz. He also writes children's stories and has published them in the book anthologies Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales, in Youthline USA, and in READ, a reading magazine for kids published by Weekly Reader.
More: Learn about Jason Sanford and read his writings, or read Jason's storySouth essays.
Jake says, "The only reason I wasn't born in Alabama was because my parents were in Florida when the time came. Shortly afterward, they returned, with me, to northeast Alabama where their parents lived and where their parents before them had lived and where ....
"So I was raised. And when the other time came, I went to Auburn, where my parents had gone and where my father's father had gone before him and where ....
"Later, Cornell, then Alabama again, then Colorado, then ...."
Jake has recently published poems in The Texas Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Southern Humanities Review, and Shenandoah. He has poems forthcoming in The Southern Review and is at work on a volume of poems and on a scholarly study of the monument in American poetry. He is a contributing editor for Shenandoah.
To learn more about Jake, go to his website at http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~jyork/
Dan says, "I wasn't born in Alabama. I wasn't nearly born in Alabama. But I did move there in 1995 to teach at the University in Tuscaloosa for two years and then at Auburn for three more. Prior to that period, I lived in South Carolina, where I was born in 1964 and where my ancestors arrived in the 18th century. You can cross Albergotti Creek down near Beaufort, but if you find yourself down there, don't waste time looking for that sign. Instead, go directly to a local restaurant and order the shrimp with stone-ground grits or the Frogmore Stew."
Dan's poems have appeared, or are soon forthcoming, in Ascent, The Laurel Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals. He was a finalist in the 2002 National Poetry Series open competition and received a "Special Mention" in the 2003 Pushcart anthology. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently teaches in the UNCG English Department.
Originally from Lexington, KY, Ashley Johnson is in his second year of teaching in the English department at UNCG, where he also received his MFA. A book reviewer for the Southern Scribe, his poetry has recently appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Southeast Review, Poem, DIAGRAM, Cairn, and is forthcoming from The Southern Poetry Review. He lives with his beautiful wife Ruth, two labs and four cats.
