About the editors
Cati Porter is founder and editor-in-chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. She is the author of a book of poems, Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), as well as several chapbooks: small fruit songs: prose poems (Pudding House Publications, 2008), (al)most delicious (Dancing Girl Press, 2010), and what Desire makes of us (e-book with illustrations by Amy Payne, Ahadada Books, 2011). She also recently founded, in partnership with the Inlandia Institute, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, an online literary journal dedicated to place-based writing about the Inland Southern California region. Learn more about her by visiting her website.
Associate editor Ren Powell is a poet, dramatist and translator from California. Her publishing credits include two books of poetry, two chapbooks and nine books of translation. Her dramatic works have been produced in the US, Canada and Norway. She is a member of the Norwegian Authors’ Union and is the Norwegian representative to the International PEN Women Writers’ Committee, and the Committee’s Human Rights Representative. She helped to found the International Cities of Refuge Network and is founder and editor-in-chief of Babel Fruit . She blogs at sidesteppingreal.blogspot.com.
Associate editor Maureen Alsop's poems have appeared or are pending in various publications including: Agni, New Delta Review, Tampa Review, Barrow Street, Typo, Cafe Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and Texas Review. Her poetry has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize; she is the recipient of Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, Eleventh Muse' Poetry Award, and Bitter Oleander's Francis Locke Memorial Prize in Poetry. She is the author of two chapbooks, Nightingale Habit, and Origin of Stone; her full collection of poetry, Apparition Wren was recently released from Main Street Rag Press.
Book review editor Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. His newest book is the textbook THE POETRY GYMNASIUM: 94 PROVEN EXERCISES TO SHAPE YOUR BEST VERSE.
Associate editor Judy Kronenfeld is the author of two books and two chapbooks of poetry, the most recent being Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize, which was published in Summer, 2008. Her poems, as well as the occasional short story and personal essay have appeared in numerous print and online journals. Recent and forthcoming poem credits include Natural Bridge, The American Poetry Journal, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Calyx, The Hiram Poetry Review, The Pedestal, The Cimarron Review, as well as a number of anthologies, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young (Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions, 2008) and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, edited by Holly Hughes (Kent State University Press, 2009). She is also the author of a critical study: KING LEAR and the Naked Truth (Duke U.P., 1998). She has taught in the Department of Creative Writing, at the University of California, Riverside for twenty-five years.
Charlotte Davidson was born and raised in Southern California. After college, she spent eleven years in Paris, France. Upon returning to the States, she received a Masters in English from Syracuse University followed by an M.F.A. in poetry from U.C. Irvine. She now lives in Riverside, California, where she teaches college English, manages an organic orange grove, and takes care of her six horses, three dogs, four cats, and one husband. Her two children live in Europe and India. She has published poems and stories in various journals and anthologies including The Santa Monica Review, Gulf Coast, The Fiddlehead, Faultline, and Poemeleon. Her first book, Fresh Zebra, is expected this summer.
Editorial Intern Lalanii Grant is a writer from Los Angeles, CA. She is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry with a dual concentration in Nonfiction. She teaches Writing for Wellness workshops and is an interning Editor at Poemeleon Literary Journal. Her musings can be found at creativeconfusion.org where she writes poetry and prose about motherhood, relationships, and lifestyle.