Waxwing Editors
Co-Editor
Justin Bigos
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Justin Bigos is the author of the poetry chapbook Twenty Thousand Pigeons (iO Books, 2014). His poems have appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, New England Review, The Collagist, Crazyhorse, and The Gettysburg Review; his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s and Ninth Letter. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.
Co-Editor
Bojan Louis
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Bojan Louis is a member of the Navajo Nation — Naakai Dine’é; Ashiihí; Ta’neezahnii; Bilgáana. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Platte Valley Review, Hinchas de Poesía, American Indian Research and Culture Journal, and Black Renaissance Noire; his fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review and Yellow Medicine Review; his creative nonfiction in As/Us Journal. He is the author of the nonfiction chapbook, Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona (Guillotine Series, 2012). He has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony. He earns his ends and writing time by working as an electrician, construction worker, and full-time English Instructor at Arizona State University’s Downtown Campus. He is currently organizes the reading series for la Phoenikera Writer’s Guild.
Translations Editor
Sara Sams
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Sara Sams is a poet, translator, and editor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. While she writes about Appalachian lore and the local legends of her hometown — the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City” — she found she needed to travel far from home in order to better explore her own region’s history. She has taught English in Granada, Spain, and creative writing at the National University of Singapore, and currently teaches composition for ESL learners at Arizona State University. Her poems and translations have been featured in Blackbird, Hinchas de Poesía, …and love… from Jacar Press, and The Drunken Boat. She has previously served as a contributing editor for both Hayden’s Ferry Review and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Sara lives in Phoenix and swears by the Welcome Diner.
Prose Editor
Erin Stalcup
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Erin Stalcup’s short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Sun, PANK, H_NGM_N, Hinchas de Poesía, Novembre (Swiss), and elsewhere, and she has creative nonfiction forthcoming in The Laurel Review. Erin received her MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers, and later served as the Joan Beebe Fellow at Warren Wilson. After a decade of teaching in community colleges, universities, and prisons in New York City, North Carolina, and Texas, she recently returned to her hometown of Flagstaff, where she has joined the creative writing faculty at her alma mater, Northern Arizona University.
Contributing Editor
Candice Amich
Candice Amich is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is at work on a book project entitled The Poetics of Globalization, in which she examines the aesthetic strategies Latina, Caribbean, US, and Latin American feminist poets and performance artists employ to counter the abstractions of globalization discourse. She earned her PhD in English from Rutgers University and holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University.
Contributing Editor
Corey Campbell
Corey Campbell’s fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, The Rattling Wall, Necessary Fiction, Conte, Anderbo, and The Coachella Review, among other publications. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers, Ms. Campbell lives in Phoenix, AZ, where she’s completing her first collection of short stories.
Contributing Editor
Anna Clark
Anna Clark is a journalist living in Detroit. Her reporting, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Grantland, The American Prospect, The Christian Science Monitor, Next City, and many others. She is a political media correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and a former Fulbright fellow in Kenya. She is also the editor of A Detroit Anthology. Anna is a writer-in-residence in city high schools, the founder of Literary Detroit, and a founding board member of Write A House. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
Contributing Editor
Lauren Espinoza
Lauren Espinoza is currently a graduate student in the MFA Program in Poetry at Arizona State University, where she is the Teaching Artist for the Young Writers Program. Her poetry has appeared in an anthology selected by Naomi Shihab Nye entitled Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25, in print at The Mas Tequila Review, online at The Acentos Review and Whole Beast Rag, and she has poems forthcoming in As/Us and NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border, published by Texas A&M Press. She is an inaugural member of the Letras Latinas Young Poets Initiative, the CantoMundo Workshop Assistant, and holds a graduate certificate in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas-Pan American.
Contributing Editor
W. Todd Kaneko
W. Todd Kaneko is the author of The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor, 2014). His prose and poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Barrelhouse, The Normal School, The Collagist, and many other places. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches at Grand Valley State University. Visit him at toddkaneko.com.
Social Media Editor
Izzy Montoya
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Izzy Montoya is currently an undergraduate creative writing major at Arizona Sate University in Tempe, Arizona. He spends his time writing, reading, and studying both poetry and fiction. He is also a reader for RED INK magazine.
Site Design
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