Who we are:

Associate Editor (Poetry, Reviews, & Spotlights) Maureen Alsop, Ph.D.Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of author of Pyre, Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks. She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prize on six occasions. Her poems have appeared in various journals including The Laurel Review, AGNI, Blackbird, Tampa Review, Action Yes, Drunken Boat, and The Kenyon Review and featured on Verse Daily. Her translations of the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) and Mario Domínguez Parra are available through Poetry Salzburg Review. She teaches online with the Poetry Barn. Her reviews have appeared at: The Rumpus, Your Impossible Voice, Rain Taxi, Mantis, Anomaly, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, among other journals. Her visual poems have appeared at Entropy, Filling Station, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and exhibited at at Umbrella Studio, among others.

Associate Editor (Poetry & Essays) Charlotte Davidson was born and raised in Southern California.  After college, she spent eleven years in Paris, France.  Upon returning to the States, she received a Masters in English from Syracuse University followed by an M.F.A. in poetry from U.C. Irvine.  She now lives in Riverside, California, where she teaches college English, manages an organic orange grove, and takes care of her six horses, three dogs, four cats, and one husband.  Her two children live in Europe and India.  She has published poems and stories in various journals and anthologies including The Santa Monica Review, Gulf Coast, The Fiddlehead, Faultline, and Poemeleon.  She is the author of Fresh Zebra (All Nations Press, 2012).

Associate Editor (Poetry) Judy Kronenfeld Judy Kronenfeld’s fifth book of poetry, Groaning and Singing, was published in February, 2022, by FutureCycle Press. Her previous collections include Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle, 2017), and Shimmer (WordTech, 2012). Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, Gyroscope Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, New Ohio Review, Offcourse, One, Pratik, Rattle, Slant, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verdad, Your Daily Poem, and other journals, and in more than three dozen anthologies.  

Poetry Reader Bridget Kelley-Lossada is an educator, writer, and poet-historian from Los Angeles with an M.F.A. in poetry from Antioch University. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies over the years including: Poemeleon, Inkwell, Invisible Plane (Spout Graphic Press), 51%, A Pagan’s Muse (Citadel), and Letters to the World (Red Hen Press). An ardent supporter of the arts and arts education, she has been a teacher of history, poetry, and cultivating creativity in public and independent schools for the past 27 years. Currently, she works as a middle school director at an independent school in Pasadena, CA. and lives with a tween, a teen, and one fabulous husband.

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, Associate Editor (poetry) rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent poetry titles include A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He is “Interviews Editor” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse, editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Associate Editor (poetry) Robbi Nester is the author of a chapbook, Balance (White Violet, 2012), and three collections of poetry— A Likely Story (Moon Tide, 2014), Other-Wise (Kelsey, 2017), and Narrow Bridge (Main Street Rag, 2019). She also edited two anthologies, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It (Nine Toes,2014) and Over the Moon: Birds, Beasts, and Trees, published as a special issue of Poemeleon Poetry Journal. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine.

Cati Porter, Founder and Editor in Chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry is the author of eleven books and chapbooks, including small mammals (Mayapple Press, 20230, The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), My Skies of Small Horses (Word Tech Editions, 2016) Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), as well as six chapbooks, including the forthcoming Novel: Poems (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022). In addition, she is the Executive Director of the Inlandia Institute. Learn more about her by visiting her website.

Associate Editor (Poetry & Notes from Abroad) Ren (Katherine) Powell is a poet, translator and teaching artist. She is a native Californian, settled on the west coast of Norway. Ren has been a member of The Norwegian Author's Union since 2005, and has published six full-length collections of poetry (and more than two dozen books of translations) with traditional publishing houses. Her poetry collections have been purchased by the Norwegian Arts Council for national library distribution, and her poems have been translated and published in eight languages. Her non-fiction essays have appeared in anthologies and magazines, and her dramatic works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Norway. Ren has a BA in Theater Arts from Texas A&M, and an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. From 2005 to 2008, Ren served as the Norwegian PEN representative for PEN International’s Women Writers’ Committee. And from 2007 to 2008, she also served as their Human Rights Representative. During the same time period, as the Project Manager for the International Cities of Refuge Network, she helped establish and create the bylaws for a network that provides temporary haven for persecuted writers.