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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 (foreword by Stephanie Emily Dickinson), Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology (Shanti Arts, 2020). 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). She also finaled in the 2017 Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize (Judge: Adriana Ramírez), and double-finaled in the 2019 Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest via Cutthroat Literary Review (Judge: Heid Erdrich). 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. German-born and of German/French heritage, she has been blest with a special young lady who calls her Gramma. (2014-current)


Heather Grace (she/her), Reader is a lover of books, and especially the lyrical, experimental, & unique. She's a recent graduate from a midwestern university and is pursuing graduate studies. She 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-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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​[1952-2021 - RIP, dear friend]

​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. ​(2014-2021)


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​Josiane Chriqui, Reader
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 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)



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Angela Doll Carlson, 2016-2017
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​Richie Johnson, 2016-2017
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Amy Morgan, 2019-2020
Beverly Nault, ​2015-2017
​Kyrell Newell, 2016-2017
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​Salim Ramjee, 2019-2020
​Rachel Schlager, 2017-2018
Laura Sweeney, 2015-2017
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Sarah Broussard Weaver, 2016-2019
Craig Woychik, 2017-2018
​Lou J Berger, Jan-March 2018

Kelly Garriott Waite, Jan-March 2018
​Grace Bridges, 2014-2015
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