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The Medulla Review

ABOUT THE EDITORS

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jennifer Hollie Bowles is the web mistress, primary fiction editor, and periodic poetry editor of The Medulla Review, as well as the founder of Medulla Publishing. Her writing has been accepted for publication in over two-hundred literary venues, and she has thrice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jennifer's first full-length poetry book, Anarchy in a Dresser, is slated for publication with UNBOUND content in early 2014.

Her first poetry chapbook, Fire and Honey, was published with Flutter Press in 2010, and her second chapbook, Guerrilla Love, was published with Propaganda Press in 2011. Jennifer's third chapbook, Suck My Clit Freud, is available from SAM Publishing.

Three poems at: 3:AM Magazine

One poem at: Red River Review

Flash fiction piece at: Word Riot

Flash fiction piece at: Sein und Werden

Fiction piece at: Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

FORMER GUEST POETRY EDITORS

Gindy Elizabeth Houston was fortunate to serve as guest Poetry Editor for Volume 1, Issue #1,
and to photograph the cover art for Volume 1, Issue #1, and Volume 1, Issue #2 of The Medulla Review.

Laura LeHew was the guest poetry editor for Volume 2, Issue #1 of The Medulla Review.

Laura is an award winning poet whose work has appeared in a myriad of national and international journals and anthologies, including A cappella Zoo, Boston Literary Magazine, Counterexample Poetics, Ellipsis Magazine, Elysian Fields Quarterly, The Mad Poet's Society, The Northville Review, Orbis, PANK, Poet's Ink Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Zygote in my Coffee, among numerous others. Her chapbook, Beauty, published by Tiger’s Eye Press in 2009, is going for a second print run.

Laura received her MFA in writing from California College of Arts, residencies from Soapstone and the Montana Artists Refuge, interned for CALYX Journal an independent publisher of literature and art by women, and was nominated for a Pushcart. She is on the board of directors of the Oregon State Poetry Association (OSPA), is a co-coordinator of the OSPA Eugene/Springfield chapter—Springfield Library Reading Series, and was the OSPA Contest Chair for 2 years. She is currently a member of the Lane Literary Guild’s steering committee and facilitates a critique group the Let Them Eat Cake Poets. Laura is the founder of Uttered Chaos, which organizes readings and has branched out into a press.

Tantra Bensko was the guest co-editor for Volume 2, Issue #3 of The Medulla Review. Tantra invented Lucid Fiction and LucidPlay, is the editor ofExclusive Magazine and maintains the site Experimental Writing. She has over 140 creative writing publications in journals, and Naissance Press published her chapbooks, Watching the Windows Sleep, and the tiny Swinging on the Edge of Day. She also has a book called Tantric Metaportals, and had 5 other books put out by Laugh of God Press and she has many articles published. She taught Experimental Fiction Writing through UCLA Extension Writing Program, and teaches through her own Academy online, such as Advanced Experimental Fiction writing, and is offering Mystical Prose. She has an MA in English from FSU, and an MFA in writing from Iowa. She is also an artist, makes videos and music, is a hypnotherapist and energy worker. She lives in Berkeley.

Cathy Kodra was the guest poetry editor for Volume 3, Issue #1 of The Medulla Review.

Cathy is a native New Yorker who now lives, writes, and edits in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her passion for writing began when her second grade teacher told her to write a poem. Before that, Cathy hadn’t realized that people other than “famous authors” were allowed to write poems or stories. She has never stopped writing since.

Cathy’s poems, short stories, and essays have been published or are pending publication in the following literary journals or anthologies: Lynx Eye, Tar Wolf Review, Beginnings, New Millennium Writings, Birmingham Arts Journal, Roanoke Review, Main Channel Voices, Common Ground Review, Still Crazy(July 2010), The Medulla Review (July 2010), Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine (Winter 2011), Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, andChristmas in Knoxville 2007. She won first place in the 2008 Libba Moore Gray/Terry Semple Poetry Contest, was a finalist in the New Millennium Writings January 2009 Poetry Contest, was a finalist in the Two Rivers Review 2004 Poetry Contest, received an Honorable Mention for Glimmer Train’s 2009 Short Story “Family Matters” Contest, and her short story, “The Most Interesting Thing in the World,” was nominated in 2009 for a Best American Short Stories award. Cathy is co-editor of Bleeding Hearts: A Sampling of Poems from the Poetry Workshop of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild (Tellico Books, 2009) and edited Waltzing in Triolet: A Snapshot of Creation (Phil Lowe, 2008). She is a contributing editor for New Millennium Writings and the current secretary of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild Board of Directors.

Cathy’s passions, along with writing, include reading, cooking, crocheting, and gardening. She happily works part time as an adult education teacher for Knox County Schools and the rest of the time as a freelance editor with ridiculously low rates: www.cathykodra.com.

Mary Stone Dockery was the guest poetry editor for Volume 3, Issue #2 of The Medulla Review. She is the author of the chapbook Aching Buttons (dancing girl press, 2012). Her poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, > kill author, Weave Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, Foundling Review, Lily, Blood Lotus, Prick of the Spindle, and many other fine journals. She is the 2011 recipient of the Langston Hughes Award in Poetry and received honorable mention at New Millennium Writings for her essay "No Results Were Found." Her chapbook Becoming an Island was a semi-finalist in the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Award. She is the co-editing founder of Stone Highway Review, a journal dedicated to publishing women and other underrepresented voices. She is also co-editor of Blue Island Review, a Kansas-based regional journal as well as a reader for Gemini Magazine. Mary also writes mini reviews for online literary journals, and these reviews appear at Portal del Sol. Currently, she lives and writes in Lawrence, KS, where she also teaches English classes.

FORMER EDITORIAL ASSISTANT/PROOFREADER

Peter Kispert is a student currently living in New Hampshire. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Mud Luscious Press, > kill author, Pear Noir!, Fractured West, Word Riot, Short, Fast, and Deadly, and The Grey Sparrow Journal, among others. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sandpaper, a print publication for student-composed creative nonfiction. He also edits Aegis, a journal of fiction, poetry, and black and white photography. He loves apple crisp and jellyfish season the most.

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