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Chila Woychik, Founding Editor, Nonfiction Editor - Chila (pronounced "Sheila") is the owner and managing editor of Port Yonder Press, est. 2009. She especially enjoys chiseled lines that bring musicality to a piece. Chila won the 2017 Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award and the 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award. She was also named a finalist in the 2017 Proximity Personal Essay Contest. Her most recent publishing credits appear in Passages North, Cimarron Review, Portland Review, Atticus, Tahoma Literary, and others. Her poems have appeared in JuxtaProse, Panoply, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband of thirty-six 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, and of German & French heritage, Chila is seeking a publisher for her first essay collection. Her most beloved role thus far has been as Grandma. (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 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. (Issue 8, 2019)
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)
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)
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. (2017-2019)
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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Kelly Garriott Waite writes from Ohio where she's researching the second owner of her 1908 house. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Wild Culture, the Fourth River: Tributaries, and is forthcoming in the Hopper. She's currently working on a compilation of essays about people forgotten to history. (Jan-Mar 2018)
Kelly said this about her time with us: "Being a reader for Eastern Iowa Review forced me from the vague and comfortable 'this doesn't work' to a precise articulation of what I didn't like about a piece. Did the piece, despite lush writing, contain distracting tense shifts? Were there too many points of view? Was the piece implausible? Or was it disqualified because of the author's failure to follow the guidelines? Such careful reading not only benefits a literary magazine, it also benefits the reader, whose own writing cannot help but be improved. I appreciated my stint as a reader for Eastern Iowa Review and look forward to filling in again in the future."
Lou J Berger is a professional author and editor and an active member of SFWA. His stories have appeared in a handful of anthologies, and one recently earned Finalist status in the Writers of the Future contest. He lives in Denver with his high-school crush, three dogs, and a kink-tailed cat. (Jan-Mar 2018)
Lou said this about these months: As a professionally published author, I have always had a bit of a ken for what the purse-lipped editors that abound in the publishing industry call "purple prose." They usually say this with disdain. For the uninitiated, purple prose is overly descriptive, flowery language that chokes a narrative thread with unneeded garlands of adjectives and adverbs, sprawling across the written page like kudzu through a parking lot in North Georgia. continue reading
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