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Directors : Jeffrey Ethan Lee & Erik Nilsen
Senior Poetry Editor: Jeffrey Ethan Lee [e-mail]
See Poetry Editor Bios below: Erik Nilsen, Patrick Lawler, Malinda Miller, Barbara Sorensen & Debra Bokur.
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Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Senior Poetry Editor since 2007
Lee's poetry book, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006) was a 2007 Colorado Book Award finalist [http://www.identitypapers.org]. His first full-length poetry book, invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004) was praised in American Book Review, North American Review, Rain Taxi Review etc. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Poetry Press, 2001). He also published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, African American Review, American Poetry Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crosscurrents, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square, & Other Voices.
He also won the first Tupelo Press award for literary fiction in 2001 for a novel, The Autobiography of Somebody Else.
He is currently teaching creative writing at West Chester University. He taught creative writing at University of Northern Colorado 2002-2007. He has a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and an MFA from NYU. His first scholarly essay on Dorothy Wordsworth’s poetry and poetics is forthcoming this year (2008-2009).
His new blog link is here. His cv is here.
Thaddeus Rutkowski, Fiction Editor since 2007
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels Tetched ("touched in the head") and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His stories and poems have been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize.
His work is anthologized in Up Is Up, but So Is Down: The New York Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and other collections.
He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York and has taught at Pace University, the Hudson Valley Writers Center and the Asian American Writers Workshop.
Visit his author site: http://www.thaddeusrutkowski.com/
Debra Bokur, Poetry Editor
Debra Bokur served for many years as the poetry editor of Many Mountains Moving. She is an editor, author, filmmaker and award-winning journalist based in Colorado’s high country near Boulder, Colo. Currently, she is the Wellness Editor at the international newsstand publication Healing Lifestyles & Spas Magazine, and a Contributing Editor to Fit Yoga Magazine. Her feature articles cover travel, lifestyle, health, the environment, sustainable living, and politics. She contributes regularly to domestic and international media outlets including Women’s Adventure Travel, Spa Magazine, Yoga Journal, Global Traveler and Experience Life, as well as others. Bokur is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers. She has served as the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor and Senior Editor for several national publications, including American Cowboy Magazine, Tempo, Compass and Bloom Magazine. She is the recipient of awards for journalistic excellence, including the 1996 Frances Buck Sherman Award and multiple awards from the Society of American Travel Writers. She is a contributing author to Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001). She has written, produced and directed a number of short films and plays, and is currently in the editing stage of an original film series about ancient healing traditions from around the world.
Patrick Lawler, Poetry Editor, Ecopoetry & Drama Editor, SUNY ESF, Syracuse , NY.
Patrick Lawler has published three collections of poetry: Feeding the Fear of the Earth (MMM Press, 2006), A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press) and reading a burning book (Basfal Books). He has been awarded fellowships by the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition to being an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature, he teaches creative writing courses at Onondoga Community College. He is also part of the Creative Writing Programat LeMoyne College, where he teaches creative writing, playwriting, and writing for performance.
T.M. De Vos, Assistant Fiction Editor, is a poet and fiction writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Washington Square, Small Spiral Notebook, Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, Pebble Lake Review, Global City Review, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, The Pedestal Magazine, The Saint Ann's Review, and Ars Medica. She has taught at the University of Michigan, New York University, and in the New York City public school system. She received an MFA in 2004 from NYU and a Hopwood Award in 1999 from the University of Michigan.
Joanna Gardner, Assistant Fiction Editor, grew up in the heart of New York State's cabbage-producing country and still has dirt beneath her fingernails. These days she lives in New Mexico where it is much harder to grow things. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Terrain.org, Fickle Muses, Serendipity, Rosebud, and others. You can visit her online anytime at http://www.joannagardner.com for updates about life in the southwest, including gardening travails and writing news.
Deah Paulson, Assistant Fiction Editor, grew up in Iowa and is a graduate of the creative writing program at NYU, where she was the fiction editor of the Washington Square Review. She is currently living and working in Portland, Oregon, where she writes short stories and web content, tutors writing students, and makes and sells jewelry.
Barbara Sorensen, Literary Salon Coordinator & Poetry Editor, has been published in RUNES, Wazee Online Journal, Many Mountains Moving, and Copper Nickel. Visit her blog: http://pinewoodasylum.blogspot.com/
She writes for and edits Winds of Change magazine, which is published in Boulder, Colorado, and focuses on career and educational opportunities for Native Americans. She has been honored to interview many notable poets and writers, including Joseph Bruchac, Diane Glancy, Dorianne Laux, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Barbara writes poetry and participates in workshops whenever possible. She lives in Pinewood Springs with her husband and has two grown sons.
Interns for (2008-2009)
Martin Balgach
Amy Bauer
Sam Corbo
Interns for Vol. VIII (2006-2007)
Justin Couch
Gabriel Guerrero
Andrew McCown
Malinda C. Miller, Managing Editor & Poetry Editor, M.A. in Communication Research, B.A. in English, B.S. in Journalism from CU-Boulder. In addition to working on the journal, she volunteers in elementary schools running poetry workshops. At CU-Boulder she leads the web team that develops the main marketing sites and interactive media for the university http://www.colorado.edu). Sites developed by the team have received honors from the Admissions Advertising Awards, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the Telly Awards. She previously worked as a publications editor and has been a reporter for community papers in Boulder, Longmont, and Loveland. A native Coloradoan who spends way too much time on US 36 or a computer, she’s most at peace on Weston Pass or in the Clan Alpine
Mountains in Nevada.
Founder, Naomi Horii
With many thanks to our founding editor/publisher & benefactor, Naomi Horii, whose vision and wisdom made all of this possible since 1994. We continually wish her only the best since she left MMM due to different kinds of priorities at the end of 2004.
David Robert Rozgonyi, Fiction Editor at large
David Robert Rozgonyi was born in the latefall of 1976 in Tripoli, Libya, to Hungarian immigrant parents. Travel and languages became a way of life as Mr. Rozgonyi backpacked across six continents, spending months among local residents in remote corners of the world, including China, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. In his life apart from writing and traveling, Mr. Rozgonyi fronted a jazz band in Sydney, Australia, spent a year living entirely nocturnally as a snooker and billiards hustler, and, in recent years, earned an MBA. He currently lives in Colorado.
We also owe great debts to past poetry editors Debra Bokur and Alissa Norton for their many years of great work for MMM.
