Rosanna lives in Maine with her family and the perfect number of dogs (six, in case you were wondering). She publishes fiction and nonfiction as R.S. Wynn and received the Larry Brown Short Story Award and Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New South, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Bacopa Literary Review, Tahoma Literary Review, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. You can reach her at editor@mainereview.com.
Rebecca’s poems are published or forthcoming in RHINO, Carve, Juked, Atlanta Review, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. She was named the 2020 Monson Arts: MWPA Poetry Fellow, and has received residencies from Norton Island, SAFTA, and Hewnoaks. Rebecca holds an MFA from VCFA, and lives in Portland, Maine. Her website is rebeccairene.com. She tweets @cicadacomplex. You can reach her at poetry@mainereview.com.
Shavahn received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has appeared in Cimarron Review, Carve Magazine, Salamander, The Baltimore Review, and Sugar House Review, among others. She was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and awarded a Crossfield Fellowship by Cuttyhunk Island Writers Residency. You can reach her at poetry.dorris-jefferson@mainereview.com
Meghan lives in Portland with her husband, Matthew, daughter Adeline, and cat, Little Bea. She is co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, which is coming out in the Fall of 2019. Her work has been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Driftwood Press, lingerpost, the Chronogram, red paint hill, Balancing Act, the Sandy River Review, Sky Island Journal, and others, and is forthcoming in Literary Mama, and Third Wednesday. Her chapbook, How We Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press in September 2016. She will be the Featured Poet in Frost Meadow Review’s Spring 2020 Issue, and will be a resident at Hewnoaks Artists Colony in September, 2019. Her work can be found at meghansterling.com. You can reach her at poetry.sterling@mainereview.com.
Brett feels honored to be in a position to strengthen Maine’s already robust literary community. He has been published in Intrinsick Mag, The Maine Review (long before he was fiction editor, he swears), and as a word-of-the-day example usage in Merriam Webster. The word was “zephyr.” A lifelong reader and writer, he is working on his first novel. He loves the work of Jim Shepard, Alice Munroe, George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Rebecca Makkai, Colson Whitehead, Lauren Groff, Charles Portis, and Herman Melville. You can reach him at fiction@mainereview.com.
Rashmi holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Literary Nest, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. Born and raised in India, she now lives and writes in New York State’s North Country. She is working on her first novel. Rashmivaish.com. You can reach her at fiction.vaish@mainereview.com.
Emily’s writing has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Fourth Genre, The Maine Review, Under the Gum Tree, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She was a contest finalist in Fourth Genre and Creative Nonfiction Magazine, nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project, and given honorable mention in Glimmer Train. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Middlebury College, an MA in English education from Columbia University Teachers College, and MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her wife and pup in New York City where she works as an English tutor/learning specialist and runs the Figure Eight Writer’s Workshop. She is currently working on a collection of linked creative essays. You can reach her at nonfiction@mainereview.com.
Megan holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA in poetry from Goddard College. Her essays have won numerous national awards including a Pushcart Prize. She has been published in such journals as The Threepenny Review, The Florida Review, Hotel Amerika and Creative Nonfiction Magazine’s True Story. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY, with her fiancé and their three beloved dogs. You can reach her at nonfiction.baxter@mainereview.com.
Dewaine is the author of the novel Revolutions of All Colors (Syracuse University Press, October 2020). His stories and essays have appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, the New York Times, CRAFT, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, and War on the Rocks, among others. You can find more of Dewaine’s writing at dewainefarria.com. You can reach him at embodyfarria@mainereview.com.
Elizabeth’s recently completed novel, The Space Between, was shortlisted in the 2019 William Faulkner William Wisdom Competition, Novel-in-Progress category. She holds an MFA Fiction and Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MA in English from Middlebury College, and an A.B. from Harvard University. She writes and teaches in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. You can reach her at embodybedell@mainereview.com.
Chanel Dubofsky is a fiction writer, journalist and essayist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work on health, gender, sexuality, religion and reproductive justice has been published in New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Lilith, Previously.TV, and Rewire, and her fiction at Atlas and Alice, Monkey Bicycle, Atticus Review, Matchbook, Staccato, and Quick Fiction. She has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Follow her on Twitter at @chaneldubofsky and on Instagram at cdubofsky. You can reach her at embodydubofsky@mainereview.com.
Adam Grabowski holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the recipient of a 2020 Parent-Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. His poems have been featured in such journals as Hobart, jubilat, and Sixth Finch, as well as the anthologies What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Rage in the Age of Trump and Alongside We Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism. Adam currently lives a life of stern comfort alongside his wife and two daughters, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. adamgrabowskipoetry.com // @GrabowskiPoet
Embody: Tyler Orion, Siarra Riehl, Kimberly Ann Priest, BellaBianca Lynn, and Alex Andy Phuong.
Fiction: Terri Bruce, David Grubb, Erica Kent, Wilson Koewing, Bree Leslie, Matthew Schwager, Doug Scibeck, Kathleen Siddell, MK Sturdevant, Rhonda Zimlich, Dexter Loken, Kathrine A. Boyer, and Jonathan Calloway.
Nonfiction: Aaron Hand, Sarah Curtis, Anne McGrath, Andrea Vassallo, Jocelyn Winn, Linda Presto, and Deanne Battle.
Poetry: A. Anupama, Katherine Hagopian Berry, John Browning, Jenny Doughty, Janine Horber, Michelle Lewis, Carolyn Ogburn, Ethan Stonerook, Alzenira Quezada (Lady Zen), Anna Turner, Kate Morgan, Bill Frayer, Eric Morris-Pusey, Sara Backer, Zack Lavoie, and Elizabeth Austin.
Lisa Folkmire, Social Media Editor
Lisa Folkmire is a writer from Warren, Michigan. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts where she studied poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Mantle, Glass, Barren Magazine, Alegrarse, and Okay Donkey. She is also a reader for The Masters Review. You can read more about her at lisafolkmire.com. You can reach her at media@mainereview.com.