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Meet the Editors…

Barbara Krasner, PhD, MFA – holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in Holocaust & Genocide Studies from Gratz College. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her literary work has appeared in Nimrod, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Consequence Forum, Paterson Literary Review, LIPS, and elsewhere. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Chicken Fat (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Pounding Cobblestone (Kelsay Books, 2018), and three novels in verse for young readers, including Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems (Calkins Creek, 2022), co-winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers, Grades 7-12. She is the recipient of the 2024 Fiction Prize by Folio Literary Review for “The Newcomer,” and the 2022 Miriam Rachimi Microchapbook Award for poetry, Miss Emma Lazarus Enlightens the World. She serves as Director, Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center housed at Mercer County Community College, where she also teaches in the History and English departments. Visit her at http://www.barbarakrasner.com.

Gwen Jones, MFA, is a Professor of English at Mercer County College in West Windsor, NJ, and a mentor in Western Connecticut State University’s MFA in Creative and Professional Writing program. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Connecticut River Review, and The Kelsey Review (Pushcart Prize nominee for “Hawks,”), and is the author of three books for HarperCollins Avon, Wanted: Wife, Kiss Me, Captain, and The Laws of Seduction. Vice-President of the tri-state writers’ group, Liberty State Fiction Writers, she is a staunch supporter of the Oxford Comma and all things satirical. Gwen lives with her husband, Frank, on the edge of the Pine Barrens in a state that gets her, New Jersey. Visit her at gwenjoneswrites.com.

Meet the Distinguished Readers…

Fiction: Roberta Clipper earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and is a full Professor at Rider University. A fiction writer and poet, she has published many stories and two novels, including The Bride Wore Red and Fifty Fifty. On a Fullbright-Nehru Fellowship, she served as a visiting professor at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India during the Monsoon Semester (fall), 2009.

Poetry: Luray Gross is the author of three collections of poetry: Forenoon was published in 1990 by The Attic Press in Westfield, NJ, and Elegant Reprieve won the 1995-96 Still Waters Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. The Perfection of Zeros was published by WordTech in 2004. A storyteller as well as a writer, she works extensively throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania as an Artist in Residence.

Poetry: Ellen Jacko earned a BA in English Literature at Rutgers University and an MAT in English Education at Trenton State College. She has had a variety of post-graduate experiences including the study of twentieth century British poets at Exeter College, Oxford University, England. For more than thirty years she has taught at Allentown High School in Allentown, New Jersey. Additionally, for fifteen years she was a member of the adjunct faculty at Mercer County Community College.