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.
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jo anna gaona interim editor
Jo Anna Gaona has taught a variety of classes in English rhetoric, composition, literature, and creative writing for twenty years. Jo Anna is currently the Interim Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review, where she previously served as a Managing Editor while working on her master's degree at Texas Tech University. She served as the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Relief: A Christian Literary Expression after receiving her M.F.A. from Seattle Pacific University. She is also a member of the Teaching Academy at Texas Tech University.
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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marcos damián león senior 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.
nimalah praxede baaith-ducharme managing editor
associate editors: Saima Afreen, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Alejandro Aguirre, Michael Akuchie, Timilehin Alake, Erin Allen, Ugochukwu Anadi, Erin M. Arnold, Valeria Bourret, Katlin Brock, Collin Callahan, Koby Carson, David Cofer, Lauren Cribb, Will Dennis, Rebecca dos Santos Friere, Joanne Dunlap, Cheyann Earls, Adefemi Fagite, Charlotte Fiehn, Maria Fischer, Kristyn Garza, S. Graham, Thomas Hamil, Loria Harris, Candance Howze, Prosper Ifeanyi, Olivia Jacobson, Elias Johnson, Molleigh Judd, Maeve Kirk, Matt Knutson, Divyasri Krishnan, Jessica Kwasniak, Amelie Langland, Jacqueline LeKachman, Michael Levan, Nikki Lyssy, Shantanu Manke, William Matthew McCarter, Linda Masi, Ashley E. McCurry, Shane Moran, Caroline Moreton, Blue Nguyen, Nzube Nlebedim, Olatunde Osinaike, Kristi Osorio, Pegah Ouji, Damilola Oyedeji, Natalie Perman, Mandira Pattnaik, Kamryn Pitcher, Averi Quick, Mark E. Robinson, Elizabeth Rosen, Colleen Sanders, Abhijeet Singh, Amber Terranova, Anna Thornell, Othuke Umukoro, Alexandria Valentine, Sierra Voiles, Justis Ward, Maia Elgin Wegmann, and Hannah Zhang.