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Editor

Formerly muscle for the IRS, Ron Mitchell is the co-founder and former editor of RopeWalk Press. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.

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.

Fiction Editor

Nicole Louise Reid is the author of the short story collection, So There! (SFA University Press) a novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage), and two fiction chapbooks, If You Must Know (Burnside Review Press) and Girls (RockSaw Press).  Her award-winning short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Meridian.  Winner of the 2010 Dana Award in Short Fiction and 2011 Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition, she teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana, where she directs the RopeWalk Reading Series and is editor of RopeWalk Press.

Managing Editor

Josh Pietrowski is finishing his English degree in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Southern Indiana. He currently serves on the support staff there, too. He spends free time sitting on his porch, with his Golden Retriever, Robert, or writing and reading at one of many local watering-holes in his neighborhood, downtown Evansville

Poetry Editor

Matthew Graham is the author of three books of poetry, World Without End, 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.

Nonfiction Editor

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

Associate Editor

Leisa Belleau teaches courses in humanities, literature, and creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana. As a Southern Illinois University graduate student, her work was nominated for the AWP Intro Award for Fiction, and she continues to publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Office Manager

Jazmine Kellum is a senior at the University of Southern Indiana majoring in public relations with a minor in journalism. She currently is a student worker in the College of Liberal Arts, a member of The Public Relations Student Society of America, and a Delta Zeta.