Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review

STAFF

Editor

R. T. Smith is the former editor of Cold Mountain Review and Southern Humanities Review. His books of poems include Trespasser and Brightwood. His stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, New Stories From The South and Best American Short Stories as well as in his collections Faith and Uke Rivers Delivers. His new poetry collection is Outlaw Style (Arkansas). He lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia and has edited Shenandoah since 1995. His website is rtsmith.org

Managing Editor

Lynn Leech has been managing editor of Shenandoah since 1986. Previously she worked as an editor and in marketing and development in higher education. She is founder of the CLMP Literary Publishers Conference, held annually in conjunction with the Associated Writing Programs conference. Her e-mail address is lleech@wlu.edu.

Advisory and Contributing Editors

Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poetry from LSU Press, including Intervale: New and Selected Poems and The Difficult Wheel. Her poem “Penumbra,” first published in Shenandoah, was awarded the Pushcart Prize. She is writer-in-residence at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and teaches in the Warren Wilson M. F. A. Program for Writers. Her new book, Slantwise, will be published by LSU in 2008.

Scott Ely is an associate professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina, where he teaches fiction and screenplay writing. His books include Starlight (Grove), a novel, and two story collections, The Angel in the Garden (Missouri) and Overgrown With Love (Arkansas).

Claudia Emerson holds the Arlington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and UNC- Greensboro, where she was poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. Her books, all from LSU, are Pharaoh, Pharaoh; Pinion: An Elegy and Late Wife, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has been a recipient of literature fellowships from the NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Brendan Galvin is the author of a dozen books of poems, including Wampanog Traveler and The Strength Of A Named Thing. He has received the O.B. Hardison Prize, the Southeby Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a fellowship from the NEA. His Hotel Malabar won the Iowa Prize, and Atlantic Flyway was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Habitats was a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.

Sarah Kennedy teaches at Mary Baldwin College and is co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (Virginia, 2003). She holds an MFA from Vermont College and a doctorate in Renaissance poetry from Purdue. She is the author of six books, most recently The Witch's Dictionary (Elixir Press) and she writes reviews for Pleides, American Book Review, West Branch and other journals.

Jeanne Murray Walker has published five books of poetry, among them, Coming Into History (Cleveland State) and Gaining Time (Copper Beech). Her work appears in periodicals such as Poetry, The Nation, The Georgia Review, Image and APR. She is the recipient of many awards, among them an NEA Fellowship, the Prairie-Schooner Strousse Award and a Pew Fellowship in Poetry. Her plays are performed here and abroad.

Jake Adam York teaches at the University of Colorado-Denver and is the poetry editor for www.storySouth.com. His book of poems Murder Ballads received Elixir Press's annual poetry award, and he has new work in The Greensboro Review, Controlled Burn and The Southern Review. His new book, A Mumuration at Starlings, will be published in 2008. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.F.A. from Cornell.

Founding Editors

J. J. Donovan, D. C. G. Kerry, Tom Wolfe

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