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Editors

Senior Editors

Matthew Graham is the author of two books of poetry, New World Architecture and 1946, and is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana where he also co-directs The RopeWalk Writers Retreat and the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Series.

Tom Wilhelmus is professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana. His reviews of contemporary fiction appear frequently in The Hudson Review.

Managing Editor

Formerly muscle for the IRS, Ron Mitchell is a disciple of Speer Morgan and Robert Olen Butler.

Art Editor

Joan Kempf deJong is an associate professor of graphic design at the University of Southern Indiana. With over ten years of teaching experience, she currently teaches courses in graphic design, computer graphics, web page design, digital illustration and multimedia. Her work has been exhibited locally and regionally and is included in private and corporate collections. Presently, her computer-generated work consists of a mixture of object-oriented and representational figures as well as bitmapped abstractions.

Poetry Editor

Matthew Graham

Fiction Editor

Nicole Louise Reid's short stories and poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Meridian, Black Warrior Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her first novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things, was published November 2003 by MacAdam/Cage Publishing.

Assistant Editors

Patricia Aakhus is the author of three published novels, The Voyage of Mael Duin’s Curragh, Daughter of the Boyne, and The Sorrows of Tara, based on epic poems she translated from Old Irish, as well as many contemporary short stories, essays and poems.

Leisa Belleau

Randy Pease has taught English, speech, and journalism, and he has worked as a staff writer and copy editor for several Oklahoma dailies. An accomplished songwriter, he has two CDs to his credit, Call Me Ishmael (1997) and Sometimes the Moon (2003).

Associate Editor

Chris Dickens is a student of Creative Writing at USI and also Editor of The Edward Society, an online literary journal he created four years ago. He is working on his third novel, and then he'll write those first two.

With the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Indiana Review is published in October and May by the University of Southern Indiana and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, interviews, art work, photography, critical essays, and reviews between September 1st  and May 31st. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.

 

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