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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 2019 Force Majeure Flash Contest (Storm Cellar), the 2017 Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award (Red Savina Review), 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, 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)
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 senior 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. (2019-2020)
Heidi Dru Kortman, Reader, has poetry and devotionals in Breaking Barriers, Disability Concerns, Christian Reformed Church in North America, One Year Life Verse Devotional (Tyndale), and short stories in the anthologies Christmas Presence and Heartland Treasures. She lives in Michigan. (2019)
Salim R, Reader, attends University in India and remotely assists us with prose poetry and lyric essay submissions. His plans are to finish his education and pursue a career in writing and/or government, or better yet, both. He lives at home with his parents, a sister and three brothers. He speaks Malayalam, Tamil, and English, and enjoys soccer in his free time. (2019-2020)
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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