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Subject: poetry, fiction, chapbooks, criticism, review, interview
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Staff
Aiden Hunt, Creator & Managing Editor
P. Aiden Hunt is a neurodivergent and disabled editor, poet, journalist and publisher. He’s also a literary critic and a proud member of the National Book Critics Circle. His critical writing has been published by The Rumpus, Fugue, On the Seawall, Tupelo Quarterly, Jacket2 and The Adroit Journal, among other venues.
Aiden has created and edited three prior online publications: an activist blog and two cannabis policy news sites. The last of these, Profiles in Legalization, was syndicated by Newstex and NewsBank.
Heather Hoover, Poetry Editor
Heather M. Hoover teaches writing, humanities, literature, and poetry at a liberal arts college in East Tennessee. She is the author If Moon, Then Yes (Dancing Girl Press), strong female protagonist (Finishing Line Press), and Composition as Conversation: Seven Virtues of Effective Writing (Baker Academic). In addition, she has had poems published in many journals and magazines and was nominated in 2025 for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Golden Ratio.” She has been teaching writing for over 25 years, but she has been loving and tending words for as long as she can remember.
Chelsea Cobb, Fiction Editor
Chelsea Cobb is a writer and creative writing instructor with a PhD in English. She teaches creative writing at the college level and works closely with emerging writers through workshops and writing center consultation. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Spectacle Literary Magazine, among others. Her work often explores myth, transformation, and the body through experimental and hybrid forms.
Danielle McMahon, Interviews Editor
Danielle McMahon is the author of four poetry chapbooks and two micro-chaps. Most recently, her micro-chap rowhouse song is part of the 2025 Ghost City Press Summer Series. Her chapbook irl is forthcoming from Stanchion Books in 2026. She is the Editor of the engine(idling.
Meet Our Staff: Danielle McMahon
D.W. Baker, Contributing Editor
Contributor: Issue 7 (Review)
D.W. Baker is a poet, editor, and teacher from Saint Petersburg, Florida. His poetry appears in Identity Theory, ballast, and Sundog Lit, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. He reads for several mastheads including Variant Lit and Libre.
Meet Our Contributor: D.W. Baker
Herb Kitson, Poetry Reader
Herb Kitson is a poet and professor emeritus in English at the University of Pittsburgh-Titusville. He also worked at the University of Arizona, University of Grenoble (France), New York University, and at the University of South Carolina. His poems have been in The Atlanta Review, Ballast, The Comstock Review, Free Lunch, Penstricken, Poetry East, Witness, Yankee, and others. He and his friend RJ—a lumberjack, contractor, handyman, photographer forty years younger than he—live in western PA.
Lynn Wagner, Poetry Reader
Lynn Wagner is a poet, teacher and editor. She is the author of the chapbook, No Blues This Raucous Song (Slapering Hol Press). Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Subtropics, West Branch, Writers Resist and others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh and lives and writes in Denver, Colorado.
Emily Lichius, Production Assistant
Emily Lichius is a writer and editor from the Pittsburgh area. Recently, she acted as a Publisher’s Assistant for a pre-press novel at Parisian Phoenix Publishing. She received her B.A. in English, Creative Writing from Eastern University in December 2025.
Contributors
Andrew Pelham Burn, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Andrew Pelham Burn recently completed an MA in Writing at The University of Galway. His poetry has been published in The Cormorant Broadsheet and The Cormorant Anthology, Scrimshaw, Ropes Literary Journal, New Irish Writing in The Irish Independent, and Stony Thursday Book. He has won the Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize. He lives in the West of Ireland and was a cheesemaker for over fifteen years before taking up writing full time.
Ron Mohring, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Ron Mohring is the author of, most recently, Relative Hearts (Lily Poetry Review) and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees (The Word Works). He lives with his husband and two cats in Cincinnati, where he runs Seven Kitchens Press with unflagging enthusiasm.
Abbey Green, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Abbey Green grew up in Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in Zeniada, Blackbird Arts Journal, and Other People.
Sophia Naz, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Sophia Naz is an interlingual writer, artist and translator. She has authored the poetry collections Bark Archipelago (Weavers Press, San Francisco & Red River India, 2023), Open Zero (Yoda Press 2021), Pointillism (Copper Coin 2017), Date Palms (City Press, 2017), Peripheries (Cyberhex, 2015 ) and Shehnaz, a biography (Penguin Random House, 2019) Her work appears in The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Daily, The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, The Night Heron Barks, Singing in the Dark, Berfrois, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Rattle, The Adirondack Review and many others.
Meet Our Contributor: Sophia Naz
Betty Stanton, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Pushcart nominated writer who lives and teaches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in various anthologies. She received her MFA from the University of Texas – El Paso and also holds a doctorate in educational leadership. She is currently on the editorial board of Ivo Review.
Meet Our Contributor: Betty Stanton
Saudamini Siegrist, Issue 11 (Interview)
Saudamini Siegrist’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Free State Review, december magazine, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Zone 3 and forthcoming in Rattle. She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry. She has a PhD in English literature from New York University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Saudamini lives in New York City and works as a consultant on human rights for the United Nations.
Meet Our Contributor: Saudamini Siegrist
Mary Whitlow, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Mary Whitlow, based in Williamsburg, VA, crafts lyrics from quiet rituals—mailboxes, exam rooms, laundered linen. A former radio commercial writer and newsletter editor, she balances writing with nature walks and fostering animals for the Heritage Humane Society. Her poems have been featured in, or are forthcoming from, Mid-Atlantic Review and Virginia Writers Project.
Colleen S. Harris, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Colleen S. Harris earned her MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and works as a university library dean in Texas. Author of five poetry collections and four chapbooks, her most recent work includes The Discipline of Drowning (winner of the 2025 Broken Tribe Press Poetry Book Award, forthcoming 2026), The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025) and chapbooks Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025) and The Girl and the Gifts (Bottlecap, 2025). Her poetry appears in Berkeley Poetry Review, Wild Roof Journal, The Louisville Review, and more than 150 others.
Abraham Aondoana, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Abraham Aondoana is a writer, poet and novelist. He holds a law degree. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His works has been published in Kalahari Review, Prosetrics Magazine, Rough Diamond Poetry, The Cat Poetry Anthology, IHTOV, The Literary Nest, Ink Sweat and Tears (UK), Rogue Agent, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Interwoven Anthology (Renard Press), Writing on the Wall, Alien Buddha, Blasphemous Journal, Rust Belt Review, Speculative Insights and elsewhere.
Amy Riddell, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Amy Riddell is the author of Bullets in the Jewelry Box, a poetry collection, and Narcissistic Injury, a chapbook. A Pushcart nominee, Amy’s journal publications include The Inflectionist Review, Rust & Moth, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Orchards Journal of Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Misfit Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review.
Sandy Feinstein, Issue 10 (Poetry)
In 1998-1999, Sandy Feinstein was a Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher in English at the University of Aleppo. Her chapbook, Swimming to Syria, appeared in 2021 from Penumbra Press; her first poem on Syria, “Arabic Lesson,” was published in the Princeton Review in 1999.
Veronica Tucker, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Veronica Tucker (she/her) is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician, married mother of three, and lifelong New Englander. Her poetry explores the intersections of medicine, motherhood, memory, and being human. Her work appears in One Art, Eunoia Review, Berlin Literary Review, and The Book of Jobs anthology. When she isn’t writing or working in the hospital, she enjoys running, travel, time with family, and finely crafted matcha lattes.
Yasmin Kloth, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s poetry explores love, loss, place, and space, often at the intersection of her family memories and her Middle Eastern heritage. Yasmin’s work has been published in the LA Times, Rockvale Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Tiger Moth Review, West Trestle Review, among others. Her poem “Banyan Song” was awarded third place in the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Her debut collection of poetry from Kelsay Books is titled Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation.
Meet Our Contributor: Yasmin Mariam Kloth
Alexandra Burack, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Alexandra Burack, author of On the Verge, is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and freelance editor/writing coach. Her recent work appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Pangyrus, Metphrastics, ucity review, and The Sewanee Review, among other venues, and is forthcoming in Packingtown Review, Trampoline, and Thimble Lit Mag. She serves as a Poetry Editor for Iron Oak Editions and Poetry is Currency, and a Poetry Reader for The Los Angeles Review, The Adroit Journal, and West Trade Review/Trill.
Meet Our Contributor: Alexandra Burack
Gerald Yelle, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Gerald Yelle has worked in restaurants, factories, schools and offices. His books include The Holyoke Diaries (Future Cycle, 2014), Dreaming Alone and with Others (Future Cycle, 2023), the bored and Evolution for the Hell of It (Alien Buddha, 2025). His chapbooks include No Place I Would Rather Be (Finishing Line, 2021) and A Box of Rooms (Bottlecap, 2022). He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Meet Our Contributor: Gerald Yelle
Gray Davidson Carroll, Issue 10 (Review)
Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, non-binary writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared in Rattle, The Common, ONLY POEMS, and elsewhere. They are a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.
Bryana Fern, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Bryana Fern received her PhD from the Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. Her stories, essays, and poems have been published in Sequestrum, Harpur Palate, Sou’wester, Rock & Sling, Rappahannock Review, The Argyle, Redactions, South 85, and Nomad. She has also published work in the Washington Review of Books and has a critical article chapter in McFarland’s Star Trek: the Feminist Frontier.
Shelli Rottschafer, Issues 6, 7 (Review/Poetry), Poetry Reader (Issue 10)
Poet, Educator, and Advocate Shelli Rottschafer (she/her/ella) completed her doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 2005 in Latin American Contemporary Literature. From 2006 until 2023 Rottschafer taught Spanish at a small liberal arts college in Michigan. Summer 2023 she began her low-residency MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry at Western Colorado University, Gunnison. She resides in Louisville, Colorado & El Prado, Nuevo México with her partner and rescue pup.
Meet Our Contributor: Shelli Rottschafer
Past Contributors
Makena Metz, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Alex Carrigan, Issue 9 (Review)
Robin Arble, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Alexandra Meyer, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Allison Whittenberg, Issue 9 (Poetry)
William Doreski, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Laynie Browne, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Victoria Korth, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Bart Edelman, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Christa Fairbrother, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Sarah E N Kohrs, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Rick Mullin, Issue 8 (Review)
Jonathan Fletcher, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Jeanne Bamforth, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Sarena Tien, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Adele Ross, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Natalie Marino, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Wendell Hawken, Issue 7 (Poetry)
A.L. Nielsen, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Mike Bagwell, Issue 1 (Review)
C. M. Crockford, Issues 1, 2, 4 (Review)
Drishya, Issues 2, 4 (Review)
Francesca Leader, Issue 1 (Review)
PCR welcomes unsolicited chapbook reviews/interviews year-round and original poetry in four periods beginning February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1. We’re only interested in poets and poetics right now. Please read our guidelines fully before submitting pitches. PCR is a curated journal. We purchase first serial rights, which revert one month after publication, and non-exclusive archival and syndication rights.