The editors of Iron Horse.
The editors of Iron Horse.
The editors of Iron Horse.
The editors of Iron Horse.
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leslie jill patterson editor e
Leslie Jill Patterson founded IHLR in 1999. Her prose has appeared in Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Hunger Mountain, Hotel Amerika, under the gum tree, and A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. Her awards include a Texas Commission on the Arts fellowship; two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies; an Embrey Human Rights Fellowship; the Everett Southwest Literary Award (judged by Lee K. Abbott); a Soros Justice Fellowship, funded by the Open Society Foundations; the Prime Number Magazine Prize for Fiction (judged by David Jauss); the Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Writing; and two Pushcart Prizes (2018 and 2024). Since 2009, she has also worked as the case storyteller for public defenders representing indigent men and women charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty in Texas.
marcus burke fiction editor
Marcus Burke’s debut novel, Team Seven, was published in 2014 by Doubleday Books. Team Seven received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, was long-listed for the 2015 PEN Open Book Award, and was one of the “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” in O, The Oprah Magazine. Burke was featured in The NY Times as part of a cohort of thirty two “Black Male Authors of our Time." He is currently at work on his next novel.
Geffrey Davis is the author of Night Angler (BOA), recent winner of the 2018 James Laughlin Award. His first collection, Revising the Storm (BOA, 2014), won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. Davis’s honors include the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the NEA, and The Whiting Foundation. He has recent work published in The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, PBS NewsHour, and Ploughshares. Davis is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas, and in the summer of 2018, he joined the low-res MFA faculty at The Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
elena passarello nonfiction editor
Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and the recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne. Her first essay collection, Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande), won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Sarabande will publish her second collection, Animals Strike Curious Poses, in February 2017. Passarello is a faculty member in the MFA program at Oregon State University.
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jennessa hester senior managing editor
Jennessa Hester is a transgender writer and scholar based in Lubbock, Texas. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Cream City Review, Rust + Moth, HAD, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2022 Short Story Prize from South Central MLA and has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award and the Prufer Poetry Prize. Find her online at jennessahester.com
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marcos damián león managing editor
Marcos Damián León is a teacher and writer from the Salinas Valley. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, and he holds an MFA from UC Riverside. He is writing a novel about the exploitation of farmworkers in Central California and how violence haunts that land. His academic work revolves around Latine and Indigenous race creation in the U.S. Southwest and the use of horror to depict social issues in literature. His research has been supported by the Mellon Crossing Latinidades Fellowship. His creative work has appeared in the anthology Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories, LA Review of Books, Monterey County Weekly, the Latino Book Review, and others.
associate editors: Saima Afreen, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Alejandro Aguirre, Timilehin Alake, Ugochukwu Anadi, Erin M. Arnold, Valeria Bourret, Katlin Brock, Collin Callahan, David Cofer, Will Dennis, Cheyann Earls, Adefemi Fagite, Jo Anna Gaona, Kristyn Garza, S. Graham, Loria Harris, Candance Howze, Prosper Ifeanyi, Molleigh Judd, Jennifer Jussel, Maeve Kirk, Divyasri Krishnan, Jessica Kwasniak, Amelie Langland, Jacqueline LeKachman, Michael Levan, Nikki Lyssy, Shantanu Manke, Linda Masi, Priyanuj Mazumdar, Ashley E. McCurry, Caroline Moreton, Nzube Nlebedim, Olatunde Osinaike, Kristi Osorio, Pegah Ouji, Natalie Perman, Mandira Pattnaik, Pitcher, Averi Quick, Mark E. Robinson, Elizabeth Rosen, Abhijeet Singh, Anna Thornell, Othuke Umukoro, Alexandria Valentine, Maia Elgin Wegmann, and Hannah Zhang.