New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry

Steven Knepper is the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He edits New Verse Review.

Writer and poet from Havertown, PA. Social Media Editor at Dappled Things, founding editor and editor-in-chief of Talk to Me in Long Lines: A Journal of Long(ish) Narrative Verse and Dramatic Monologues, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books.

Zina Gomez-Liss is the deputy editor at New Verse Review and an MFA candidate at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Her writing can be found on her Substack, The Beauty of Things. She lives in Boston, MA with her husband and five children.

Writer/Anthropologist

Ethan McGuire is a writer, computer scientist, author of ‘Songs for Christmas’ & 'Apocalypse Dance,’ & editor at ‘New Verse Review,’ ‘Tar River Poetry,’ & ‘Literary Matters.’

Writer of poetry, essays, reviews, and memoirs. Gallivanter.

Carla Sarett writes fiction, poetry and, occasionally, essays. PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Nom: Best American Essays, Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Microfictions. For more: http://carlasarett.com

Pedant. (Also the author of six books of poems, with a seventh forthcoming. Winner of a couple of prizes. Fond of mouthing off about other people's poems.)

Poetry collection: Below the Brightness (Solum Press, 2024). Poems in Southern Poetry Review, Commonweal, First Things, New Verse Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Blue Unicorn, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere.

Marie Burdett is a poet, gardener, and MFA student at the University of St. Thomas. She authors a Substack, the Foraged Fruit, about nature, agriculture, poetry, and indigenous issues.

Daniel Cowper is the author of Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP) and The God of Doors (winner of the Frog Hollow Press chapbook contest). A verse novel, Kingdom of the Clock, will appear April 2025. He lives on an island off the west coast of Canada.

Susan Spear is the author of two collections of poetry: Beyond All Bearing and On Earth...winner of an ALBA for poetry/religious. Spear is the co-author of Learning the Secrets of English Verse, with David J. Rothman.

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Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.

Jane Satterfield’s recent books are The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions, 2023) and Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House, 2017). She is a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.

Lesley Wheeler’s sixth poetry collection is Mycocosmic (Tupelo Press, 2025). Her other books include Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, she lives in Virginia.