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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. 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. (2014-current)


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Heidi Dru Kortman, Fiction Reader, has short stories in the anthologies Christmas Presence and Heartland Treasures. She lives in Michigan. (2019-current)


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​Josiane Chriqui, Nonfiction Reader
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 is a Santa Monica based writer, author of two non-fiction sales sourcebooks. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Oldster Magazine, Ageist, and other publications. Josiane volunteers as a WriteGirl mentor, empowering teen girls/gender expansive youth, to find their life's purpose through writing.   (2020-current)
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Lois Hudson
, Reader Intern, began writing her first novel at the age of ten when she had read all the books in her tiny local library, and so decided to write her own. Her work has been published in an eclectic mix of genres including inspirational and devotional collections. She enjoys reading, photography, interior design, and mentoring other writers. She dotes on two fine sons, two beautiful daughters-in-law, two outstanding grandsons, and soon the first great-grandchild. She recently relocated from the west coast to Kentucky. (2025)



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