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Chila Woychik, Founding Editor, Nonfiction Editor - Chila (pronounced "Sheila") is the owner and managing editor of Port Yonder Press / Eastern Iowa Review, est. 2009 & 2014. She especially enjoys chiseled lines that bring musicality to a piece. Chila is the author of the upcoming hybrid essay collection, Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology, scheduled for a 2020 release by Shanti Arts Publishing. She won the 2017 Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award and the 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award (Emrys Foundation). Her most recent essay credits appear in Passages North, Cimarron Review, Portland Review, Atticus, Tahoma Literary, and others, and her poems appear in JuxtaProse, Panoply, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband of thirty-seven years on a small homestead in eastern Iowa. You will alternately find her at the gym, visiting a local coffee shop, or herding sheep and chickens into not-so-straight lines toward the barn. German-born, she has been blest with a special young lady who calls her Nana. (2014-2019)
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Heather Grace, Reader, is new to the publishing world but she's a lover of books, and especially the lyrical, experimental, & unique. She's a junior at a midwestern university, loves her rural upbringing, and plans on changing the world for the better one day. She's majoring in political science and agriculture, an admittedly strange combination. (2019)
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​Craig Woychik, Assistant Editor, Fan, Dark, & Speculative Fiction, believes that Assassin's Creed: Origins just might be the best video game yet developed. His educational pursuits include stints at Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Moody Bible Institute - Spokane campus. He's working on his first collection of short stories, and is especially proud of his beautiful two-year-old daughter. (2017-2019)
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​Sarah Broussard Weaver, Associate Editor, General, lives in a very loud house in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Nick, four children, three dogs, a cat, a hedgehog, and some fish. She is working on her MFA in creative nonfiction at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her essays have been published in Lunch Ticket, Hippocampus, The Nervous Breakdown, Full Grown People, and the second issue of Eastern Iowa Review. She enjoys reading, writing, and relaxing. She has determined she will own a hammock one day in which to do all three of those at once. (2016-2019)

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​Rachel Schlager, Assistant Editor - Rachel is impossible to explain because she is consistently evolving. She is an artist who believes in the written word enough to have gotten a degree in Literature from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Ia. Her passions include animal rescue, volunteering in the community, and throwing amazing, actor-themed, movie marathon parties. Rachel keeps a bubble gun in her car, just in case of a traffic jam, and is always excited to read a new story. (2017-2018)
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​Lianne Simon, Print Issue Cover Design - Lianne’s first novel, Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite, was published by MuseItUp Publishing in 2012. Eastern Iowa Review published her personal essay "Changeling" in their 2015 Spring/Summer edition. She wrote about intersex from a Christian perspective for the Fall 2015 issue of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics by Johns Hopkins University Press. As a public speaker, she advocates on behalf of those with differences of sex development. Lianne and her husband live in the suburbs outside of Atlanta, where she writes both English prose and computer software. ​(2014-2019)
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