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  • Steve Knepper

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

  • Zina Gomez-Liss

    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.

  • Maryann Corbett

    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.)

  • Daniel Cowper

    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.

  • Mary

    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.

  • Ethan McGuire

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

  • Ken Gordon

    Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.

  • Carla Sarett

    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

  • Sunil Iyengar

    Poet, reviewer, occasional essayist. Posts "The Golden Mean - A Limited Series" on mid-length poems, chiefly narrative.

  • Alice Allan

    Ratbag.

  • Tamara Nicholl-Smith

    Tamara Nicholl-Smith is a poet and workshop leader. Her debut collection, Saints of Sleeping and Waking, is forthcoming from Wiseblood Books. Her poems have appeared on Albuquerque city bus panels, a parking meter, and in literary journals.

  • Stephen Hoyle

    Stephen Hoyle manages the Writing Center at the Virginia Military Institute, where he also teaches composition and literature courses. He writes from the Shenandoah Valley, his lifelong home. He holds an M.A. from the University of Virginia.

  • Susan Spear

    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.

  • Elijah Perseus Blumov

    Elijah Perseus Blumov is a poet, critic, and host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft.

  • D.A. Cooper

    D.A. Cooper is a poet and writer from Houston, TX.

  • Robert Charboneau

    New Romantic Poet from Reno NV. Teacher of English and Journalism. Interested in poetics and philosophy.

  • Mary Grace Mangano

    Poet, writer, & teacher | "Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." |Soli Deo Gloria|

  • Tamarah Rockwood

    Poet, publisher, woolgathering champion.

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