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
Leslie Jill Patterson founded IHLR in 1999. Her prose has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Hunger Mountain, Hotel Amerika, under the gum tree, and A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. Her awards include two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies; a Texas Commission on the Arts fellowship; 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 a Pushcart Prize. 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 poetry editor
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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maeve kirk Sr. Managing editor
Maeve Kirk earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is currently thawing out while pursuing a PhD in poetry from Texas Tech University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Talking River, Permafrost, Passages North, Antipodes, The Bitter Oleander, Cream City Review, and The Cincinnati Review.
jennessa hester managing editor
Jennessa Hester is an artist and scholar working out of Lubbock, Texas. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Kissing Dynamite, Corporeal, and Moon Cola, while her academic work can be found in venues like QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. She has previously served in a variety of programs designed to bring literature, poetry, and international cinema to local communities.
josh luckenbach managing editor
Josh Luckenbach received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas and a BA from the University of Virginia. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere.
zachary ostraff managing editor
Zachary Ostraff received his MFA in creative writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in English at Texas Tech University. His prose has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, High Desert Journal, Assay Journal, and other venues.
associate editors: Timilehin Alake, Brock Allen, Emma Aylor, William Brown, David Brunson, McKenan Bundy, Jay Culmone, Will Dennis, Tyler Fleser, Jo Anna Gaona, Meghan Giles, Gwyn Hill, Victoria Hudson, Amelie Langland, Marcos Damián León, Linda Masi, Landon McGee, Bibiana Ossai, Remy Pincumbe, Catherine Ragsdale, Nicolas Rivera, Hannah Russell, Brody Shappell, Dusti K. Smith, Grayson Treat, and Bria Winfree.