EASTERN IOWA REVIEW
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​Chila Woychik (she/her), Founding Editor, Nonfiction Editor - Chila (pronounced "Sheila") is the owner and managing editor of Port Yonder Press / Eastern Iowa Review, est. 2009 & 2014. Free spirit, aging hippie, moderate libertarian, she especially enjoys chiseled lines that bring musicality to a piece. Chila is the author of the 2020 hybrid essay collection, Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology (Shanti Arts, 2020). She won the 2019 Force Majeure Flash Contest (Storm Cellar) and the 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award (Emrys Foundation / Emrys Journal). Her most recent essay credits appear in Passages North, Cimarron Review, Portland Review, Tahoma Literary, and others. German-born and of German/French heritage, she has been blest with a fine family and wonderful friends, along with a special young lady who calls her Gramma. (2014-current)
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Heidi Dru Kortman, Reader, has short stories in the anthologies Christmas Presence and Heartland Treasures. She lives in Michigan. (2019-current)
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​Josiane Chriqui, Reader, is a San Francisco based writer and the recipient of fellowships from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of HarperCollin’s Leadership, Smart Selling on the Phone and Online and Smart Sales Manager. Her previous work has been published in Ageist Magazine and Purple Clover. She is currently working on a swim memoir about swimming the San Francisco Bay and wrote her thesis on The Literature of Women in Water.  (2020-current)