Founders and Managing Editors
A. Anupama is an Indian-American poet, graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and instructor at Ramapo College and Writopia Lab. Her poetry has appeared in Waxwing, Drunken Boat, CutBank, Juked, Numéro Cinq and other publications. More about her here.
Donna Lee Miele lives and writes in New York’s Hudson Valley. She received her MFA in 2014 from Manhattanville College, is on the editorial board of Inkwell Journal, and coordinates publications for the Waldorf Early Childhood Association. Donna’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ms. Aligned 3, Adelaide Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. Visit her here.
Editors and Readers
Karen Clark (B.A., Barnard; M.F.A, CUNY CCNY) is an Upper West Side expat who is happy and grateful to have been welcomed into the Rockland writing community by the River River Writer’s Circle. She has published a few things here and there and is presently completing a novel she began writing at River River meetups. She is a freelance editor and proofreader who has had the privilege and pleasure of working with, among others, novelist John Wirenius (Phineas at Bay), poet & novelist Pamela L. Laskin (My Life on the Moon; Visitation Rites; It’s All About Shoes!; Why No Goodbye?) and memoirist Carla Porch (Union Lake.) A former NYC bookstore owner (The Last Word, Morningside Heights, 1992-2005) she has spent her life getting drunk on words.
Julie M. Goldberg is a writer, librarian, and teacher. She completed her first novel in 2013 and is working on a second. Julie lives in the Lower Hudson Valley with her husband and their two children. She is an obsessive reader, an occasional jazz singer, and an enthusiastic baker. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Establishment, WomenArts Quarterly, Dual Coast Magazine, The Manhattanville Review, and Mothers Always Write.
Rosemary Farrell writes short fiction and has been published in Fiction and Promethean. She was the Managing Editor of Fiction while completing her Masters in Creative Writing at City College, CUNY. She has lived in a number of places but was born in New York City and has resided in Nyack, New York, since 2003 with her family and animal menagerie.
Alexandra Hansen-Harding is a freelance editor who worked for many years at Scholastic, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, Rosen, and others. She has written thirty books for students and teachers on subjects ranging from beekeeping for kids to the history of Hula to Darwin for second graders. She also leaves trails of messy art projects through her home in New Jersey, which she shares with with her very patient husband Brian.
Ghada Khalil was born in Lebanon. Her poems have appeared in Pif Magazine, Juked, Electric Cereal, Tagvverk and other journals. She has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She lives in the Hudson Valley in New York.
Born and raised in the suburbs of New York, Paul Miele-Herndon graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in Global Liberal Studies, spending two out of four undergraduate years in Florence, Italy. In addition to being an editor, both for his peers and professionally, Paul is also a creative: he pursued a design minor at NYU and has since worked as a freelance book designer. Following a photo/editorial internship at Assouline Publishing, he looks forward to putting his multidisciplinary background to good use in the media and publishing industries.