About the Editors
Duff Brenna is the author of six novels. He is the recipient of an AWP Award for
Best Novel (The Book of Mamie), a National Endowment for the Arts Award,
a South Florida Sun-Sentinel Award for Favorite Book of the year (The Altar
of the Body), a Milwaukee Magazine Best Short Story of the Year Award,
and a Pushcart Honorable Mention.
Brenna’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Cream City Review, SQ,
Agni, The Nebraska Review, The Literary Review, The Madison Review, New Letters,
and numerous other literary venues. His work has been translated into six languages.
duffbrenna [at] servinghousejournal [dot] com
www.duffbrenna.com
Walter Cummins is co-publisher of Serving House Books and a faculty member in Fairleigh
Dickinson University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. His most recent short
story collection, The End of the Circle, was published in 2010.
www.waltercummins.com
Steve Davenport is the author of Uncontainable Noise (poetry) and two chapbooks,
Murder on Gasoline Lake (an essay, New American Press) and Nine Poems and
Three Fictions (available free on-line and in The Literary Review’s
Summer 2008 chapbook issue).
Recent and forthcoming activities include poetry and fiction in The Southern
Review, a podcast short story at Spork Press, a lyrical
essay in Northwest Review, a review essay in American Book Review,
and a scholarly essay about Richard Hugo’s poetry in All Our Stories Are
Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature (University of Nebraska Press).
Thomas E. Kennedy’s novel Falling Sideways appeared this year from
Bloomsbury USA and will appear in Europe in November 2011, following In the Company
of Angels (2010) — the first two books of his Copenhagen Quartet,
four independent novels about the seasons and souls of the Danish capital. Both
novels received wide acclaim.
Kennedy’s 28 books include novels, story and essay collections, literary criticism,
translation, and anthologies. In 2010 New American Press published his Last Night
My Bed a Boat of Whiskey Going Down (a novel) and in 2012 will publish
his Getting Lucky: New & Selected Stories, 1982-2012.
His work appears regularly in American periodicals such as New Letters, Glimmer
Train, Ecotone, Epoch, The Literary Review, Serving House Journal, and
many others; and has won O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and a National Magazine Award
(an “Ellie”) in the essay genre.
He teaches in the Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Program; holds an MFA from
Vermont College of Fine Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen; and is
co-publisher, with Walter Cummins, of Serving House Books.
www.thomasekennedy.com
Steve Kowit is the author of In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable
Workshop, one of America’s most popular books about writing poetry.
His most recent full collection of poetry is The First Noble Truth, published
by University of Tampa Press.
He is the recipient of a National Endowment Fellowship in Poetry, two Pushcart Prizes,
and many other awards. His poetry has been widely anthologized.
Kowit teaches at Southwestern College in San Diego and lives in the back-country
hills near the Mexican border with his wife and several companion animals.
Michael Lee is a Cape Codder who served for seven years as literary editor for the
biweekly newsmagazine, The Cape Cod Voice. His numerous short stories and
articles appear in such publications as The Yale Review, New Letters, and
The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.
A short story from Lee’s collection, Paradise Dance (Leapfrog Press,
2002), won an honorable mention for a Pushcart Prize. His collection of humor essays,
In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot, was published by Wordcraft of Oregon
in 2007.
Lee is a member of PEN International, the Author’s Guild, the Norman Mailer
Society, and the National Book Critics Circle. He is currently working on two novels:
Dancing Man, and a novel based on his immanent return to Khe Sanh, Vietnam,
where he wrote dispatches for Stars and Stripes while serving with the
U.S. Marine Corps.
Chauncey Mabe fell in love with reading in the small library of the elementary school
in his hometown of Wytheville, Virginia. Combined with a love of newspapers, courtesy
of his father, he may have been fated to a career in journalism.
After 23 years as the books editor and senior cultural columnist for the Sun Sentinel
in Fort Lauderdale, he began working with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts.
He has interviewed everyone from John Ciardi to Eric Carle, Dave Barry to Margaret
Atwood, Charles Willeford to Marilyn French, Tom McGuane to Edmund White, A. Manette
Ansay to Joyce Carol Oates.
Before joining the Sun Sentinel, Mabe worked as a reporter and magazine
editor. He continues to review books of all genres for a variety of publications
and to write on his blog Open Page.
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Winner of an Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s Choice Award and nominee
for a Pushcart Prize in 2007, Clare MacQueen is also a copy editor and Web architect.
She and her husband Gary Gibbons live north of Seattle, where they design and build
custom websites.
claremacqueen [at] servinghousejournal [dot] com
www.pugetcustompc.com
R. A. Rycraft has published stories, essays, reviews, and interviews in a number
of journals and anthologies, including PIF Magazine, VerbSap, Perigee, The MacGuffin,
and Calyx.
Winner of an Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s Choice Award for 2008 and
a Special Mention for the 2010 Pushcart Prize, Rycraft is chair of the English department
at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, California.
rarycraft [at] servinghousejournal [dot] com