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<\/a>Editorial\u00a0 Staff\u00a0<\/h2>\nWho are we?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a small cadre of volunteers who put both Roses & Wildflowers<\/i> and her elder sister Coreopsis Journal of Myth<\/i> & Theatre together. We acknowledge these passionate and dedicated folk here with gratitude.<\/p>\n
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Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D., Editor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWriter, Scholar, Poet, Working Artist. Maker of community and magic.<\/p>\n
Editor of Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre<\/i> and Roses & Wildflowers Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
Has recently taken up bird watching.<\/p>\n
Linktree: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/lezliethepoet<\/a><\/p>\nLezlie may be contacted at: \u201cEditor\u201d at coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Denise Dumars<\/a>, MA, Author Liaison\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nThroughout her prolific writing career Denise Dumars has written and published poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews in journals such as Terra Incognita<\/i>, Cinefantastique<\/i>, and Talebones<\/i>. She is a columnist for Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a peer reviewer for Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth and Theater.<\/i> She has also published two collections of short stories; two non-fiction books, including The Dark Archetype <\/i>(with Lori Nyx), and numerous chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which is Letting in the Dark <\/i>(Yellow Bat Press). Denise teaches a variety of English courses in Southern California colleges. https:\/\/deniseddumars.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Nashay Jones<\/a>, Arts Editor<\/strong><\/h3>\nAward winning artist. \u201cArtist. Knitter. Writer. Nerd. Queer AF. In love with my blackness…and yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Peggy Wheeler<\/a>, Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sand-IMG_3723-sm.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two poems from an Evergreen Women\u2019s Press nationwide poetry contest. Her poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Her poem Du Fu<\/em> was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. She\u2019s led adult poetry and fiction writing critique groups and workshops in both Colorado and California.<\/p>\nIn 2018, her novel, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus<\/i>, won a coveted Audible\u2019s Reviewer\u2019s Choice Award. Her publisher, Dragon Moon Press, released Peggy\u2019s fifth novel in Summer 2019. The Raven\u2019s Daughter<\/i> was Peggy\u2019s debut novel. Peggy and her husband, Steve, along with their dogs, live in northern California.\u00a0 Her five novels are available at all the usual outlets.<\/p>\n
She has led creative writing critique groups in both Colorado and California since the 1980s, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a charter school. Her poetry has won several small press awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at PAWheelerwriter@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Helena Domenic<\/a>, MFA Artist in Residence (a yearly position)<\/strong><\/h3>\nHelena Domenic is an accomplished painter, writer, and mystic who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Egypt and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After viewing the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the age of eighteen months, her mother predicted she would become an artist. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.<\/p>\n
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Rodney Shackelford<\/a>, Do., Ph.D. Academic Chair<\/strong><\/h3>\nAssociate Professor of Pathology, University of South Alabama<\/p>\n
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Stanley Krippner<\/a>, Ph.D. Advisor<\/strong><\/h3>\nProfessor Stanley Krippner stands as a true trailblazer in the realm of consciousness exploration, pushing boundaries by delving into cross-cultural perspectives and the intriguing realm of non-ordinary experiences that boldly challenge conventional paradigms. With an extensive body of work, he is an award winning prolific author (Personal Mythology and Varieties of Anomalous Experience), and an esteemed researcher, diving into diverse subjects such as dreaming, psychedelics, creativity, shamanism, parapsychology, and trauma.<\/p>\n
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William Baldwin<\/strong><\/h3>\nWilliam Baldwin is a long-time board member of South Bay Writers and the California Writers Club. He is the author of the novel Soul Flight<\/i>, the collection Autumn Leaves, Spring Rain\u2026Lightning!<\/i>, and the forthcoming novel The Path Between<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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Lisa Peppan, <\/a><\/strong>Sensitivity Reader\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nIndependent author of Alternate Universe\/Portal fantasy. \u201cI\u2019m also an avid family historian (the non-Native side of the family\u2019s been in North America since the early 1600s), and I\u2019ve been known to dress up like it\u2019s the mid-1800s and educate the public about the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company on the Pacific Coast as a volunteer historic reenactor.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dara Napoli<\/strong><\/h3>\nWebmistress, web design, and maintenance.<\/p>\n
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Monty Rohde<\/strong><\/h3>\nWebsite things<\/p>\n
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Copy and Line Editors<\/b><\/h3>\nLaurie Detrich<\/a><\/h4>\nNew Orleans Based artist, performer, deathworker, ritualist.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.lauriedietrich.com\/<\/a><\/p>\nKyra Freestar<\/a><\/h4>\nKyra reads and edits social science and social science fiction from her home on the land and water of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples, in Seattle. She writes only postcards.<\/p>\n
www.bridgecreekediting.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack Ruttan<\/a><\/h4>\nJack Ruttan is a Canadian TV scriptwriter, freelance journalist, and illustrator with a sense of humour, and a fresh take on the world.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/mruttan.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\nPriya Sridhar
Dana Corby
Eleanor Hudson
Orly Mizrahi, Ph.D.<\/p>\n
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First Readers<\/b><\/h3>\n
Ian Grey
Deanna Burleson
Priya Sridhar
Kyra Freestar<\/a>
Peggy Wheeler<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”elliptical” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(255,243,84,0.22) 0%|rgba(224,153,0,0.55) 100%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”10px|10px|10px|10px|true|true” custom_padding=”50px|100px|50px|100px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Intrepid Editors and Readers<\/h2>\n
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Welcoming Sean M. Sanford<\/b> is a native (northern) Californian and has been living in San Francisco for about 17 years. He is in the MFA program at SFSU, where he received his BA for Creative Writing. He has been taking photos and writing fiction & non-fiction for Lowcard skateboarding magazine<\/a> since 2008. He co-founded a local music blog for which I was the sole writer called Rockward Silence<\/a>. He also wrote fiction for Defiant Scribe<\/a> for the duration of its online publication. He’s written non-fiction articles for Broke-Ass Stuart<\/a>. He writes book reviews for Horror DNA<\/a> and Night Worms<\/a>. He’s also had fiction, poetry, photography and art featured in SFSU’s Transfer Magazine<\/a>, for which he had previously served as Poetry Editor and Co-Editor in Chief. His wife owns a storefront in San Francisco called Effin Relax, for which Sean is the sole employee.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Ian Grey<\/b><\/p>\n
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Priya Sridhar<\/b> Copy Editing, First Reader\u00a0<\/p>\n
Priya is a 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Unnerving Press published Offstage Offerings. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her family. You can find her on Medium<\/a> where she runs the Permanent Nerd Network and at SUPERJUMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Peggy Wheeler<\/b>, Poetry editor<\/p>\n
Peggy A. Wheeler. M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing\/Poetry Emphasis is an author of \u201cfantastical fiction.\u201d Her five novels are available on Amazon and all the usual outlets. One of her novels, \u201cThe Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus,\u201d won the Goodreads Reviewer Award. She has led creative writing critique groups in both California and Colorado, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a northern California charter school. Her poetry has won several awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at PAWheelerwriter@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Denise Dumars<\/b>,\u00a0Poetry, First Reader, and Author Liaison<\/p>\n
is a retired college English professor, literary agent, and librarian. She has a new chapbook of poetry, Animal Gnosis<\/i>, coming soon from Alien Buddha Press, and her most recent poetry chapbook, Mars Maundering, <\/i>from Space Cowboy Press, is nominated for the Elgin Award. She lives in L.A.\u2019s beautiful South Bay region and has just returned from Worldcon in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
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Lezlie may be contacted at: \u201cEditor\u201d at coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Throughout her prolific writing career Denise Dumars has written and published poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews in journals such as Terra Incognita<\/i>, Cinefantastique<\/i>, and Talebones<\/i>. She is a columnist for Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a peer reviewer for Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth and Theater.<\/i> She has also published two collections of short stories; two non-fiction books, including The Dark Archetype <\/i>(with Lori Nyx), and numerous chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which is Letting in the Dark <\/i>(Yellow Bat Press). Denise teaches a variety of English courses in Southern California colleges. https:\/\/deniseddumars.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Award winning artist. \u201cArtist. Knitter. Writer. Nerd. Queer AF. In love with my blackness…and yours.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In 2018, her novel, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus<\/i>, won a coveted Audible\u2019s Reviewer\u2019s Choice Award. Her publisher, Dragon Moon Press, released Peggy\u2019s fifth novel in Summer 2019. The Raven\u2019s Daughter<\/i> was Peggy\u2019s debut novel. Peggy and her husband, Steve, along with their dogs, live in northern California.\u00a0 Her five novels are available at all the usual outlets.<\/p>\n She has led creative writing critique groups in both Colorado and California since the 1980s, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a charter school. Her poetry has won several small press awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at PAWheelerwriter@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Helena Domenic is an accomplished painter, writer, and mystic who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Egypt and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After viewing the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the age of eighteen months, her mother predicted she would become an artist. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Associate Professor of Pathology, University of South Alabama<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Professor Stanley Krippner stands as a true trailblazer in the realm of consciousness exploration, pushing boundaries by delving into cross-cultural perspectives and the intriguing realm of non-ordinary experiences that boldly challenge conventional paradigms. With an extensive body of work, he is an award winning prolific author (Personal Mythology and Varieties of Anomalous Experience), and an esteemed researcher, diving into diverse subjects such as dreaming, psychedelics, creativity, shamanism, parapsychology, and trauma.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n William Baldwin is a long-time board member of South Bay Writers and the California Writers Club. He is the author of the novel Soul Flight<\/i>, the collection Autumn Leaves, Spring Rain\u2026Lightning!<\/i>, and the forthcoming novel The Path Between<\/i>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Independent author of Alternate Universe\/Portal fantasy. \u201cI\u2019m also an avid family historian (the non-Native side of the family\u2019s been in North America since the early 1600s), and I\u2019ve been known to dress up like it\u2019s the mid-1800s and educate the public about the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company on the Pacific Coast as a volunteer historic reenactor.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Webmistress, web design, and maintenance.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Website things<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n New Orleans Based artist, performer, deathworker, ritualist.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.lauriedietrich.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Kyra reads and edits social science and social science fiction from her home on the land and water of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples, in Seattle. She writes only postcards.<\/p>\n www.bridgecreekediting.com<\/a><\/p>\n Jack Ruttan is a Canadian TV scriptwriter, freelance journalist, and illustrator with a sense of humour, and a fresh take on the world.<\/p>\n https:\/\/mruttan.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n Priya Sridhar [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Ian Grey [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”elliptical” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(255,243,84,0.22) 0%|rgba(224,153,0,0.55) 100%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”10px|10px|10px|10px|true|true” custom_padding=”50px|100px|50px|100px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Welcoming Sean M. Sanford<\/b> is a native (northern) Californian and has been living in San Francisco for about 17 years. He is in the MFA program at SFSU, where he received his BA for Creative Writing. He has been taking photos and writing fiction & non-fiction for Lowcard skateboarding magazine<\/a> since 2008. He co-founded a local music blog for which I was the sole writer called Rockward Silence<\/a>. He also wrote fiction for Defiant Scribe<\/a> for the duration of its online publication. He’s written non-fiction articles for Broke-Ass Stuart<\/a>. He writes book reviews for Horror DNA<\/a> and Night Worms<\/a>. He’s also had fiction, poetry, photography and art featured in SFSU’s Transfer Magazine<\/a>, for which he had previously served as Poetry Editor and Co-Editor in Chief. His wife owns a storefront in San Francisco called Effin Relax, for which Sean is the sole employee.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Ian Grey<\/b><\/p>\n First Reader Ian Grey<\/b> is a writer and Gaming Doyen in Berkeley Ca.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Priya Sridhar<\/b> Copy Editing, First Reader\u00a0<\/p>\n Priya is a 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Unnerving Press published Offstage Offerings. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her family. You can find her on Medium<\/a> where she runs the Permanent Nerd Network and at SUPERJUMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Peggy Wheeler<\/b>, Poetry editor<\/p>\n Peggy A. Wheeler. M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing\/Poetry Emphasis is an author of \u201cfantastical fiction.\u201d Her five novels are available on Amazon and all the usual outlets. One of her novels, \u201cThe Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus,\u201d won the Goodreads Reviewer Award. She has led creative writing critique groups in both California and Colorado, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a northern California charter school. Her poetry has won several awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at PAWheelerwriter@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Denise Dumars<\/b>,\u00a0Poetry, First Reader, and Author Liaison<\/p>\n is a retired college English professor, literary agent, and librarian. She has a new chapbook of poetry, Animal Gnosis<\/i>, coming soon from Alien Buddha Press, and her most recent poetry chapbook, Mars Maundering, <\/i>from Space Cowboy Press, is nominated for the Elgin Award. She lives in L.A.\u2019s beautiful South Bay region and has just returned from Worldcon in Glasgow.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\nDenise Dumars<\/a>, MA, Author Liaison\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Nashay Jones<\/a>, Arts Editor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Peggy Wheeler<\/a>, Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two poems from an Evergreen Women\u2019s Press nationwide poetry contest. Her poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Her poem Du Fu<\/em> was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. She\u2019s led adult poetry and fiction writing critique groups and workshops in both Colorado and California.<\/p>\nHelena Domenic<\/a>, MFA Artist in Residence (a yearly position)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Rodney Shackelford<\/a>, Do., Ph.D. Academic Chair<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Stanley Krippner<\/a>, Ph.D. Advisor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
William Baldwin<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Lisa Peppan, <\/a><\/strong>Sensitivity Reader\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Dara Napoli<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Monty Rohde<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Copy and Line Editors<\/b><\/h3>\n
Laurie Detrich<\/a><\/h4>\n
Kyra Freestar<\/a><\/h4>\n
Jack Ruttan<\/a><\/h4>\n
Dana Corby
Eleanor Hudson
Orly Mizrahi, Ph.D.<\/p>\nFirst Readers<\/b><\/h3>\n
Deanna Burleson
Priya Sridhar
Kyra Freestar<\/a>
Peggy Wheeler<\/a><\/p>\nIntrepid Editors and Readers<\/h2>\n