Past IR Editors

Indiana Review is edited and produced by the M.F.A. Creative Writing students at Indiana University. In accordance with IR's rotating editorships, each year Indiana Review has a new Editor.

Simeon Berry lives in Boston, where he is a poetry and fiction reader for Ploughshares. He has won a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Dana Award for Poetry, and a 2006 Massachussets Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He edits the Ploughshares Blog (http://pshares.blogspot.com/) and can be reached at http://simeonberry.com/about.htm. Recent work appears in The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, AGNI, Crazyhorse, American Letters & Commentary, The Southeast Review, Chelsea, and Verse.

After his editorship at Indiana Review, Jim Brock completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University, and for years, he served as an academic Kelly girl, teaching in Tennessee, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Miami. He currently directs the graduate program in English at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. His third book of poetry is Pictures That Got Small (WordTech, 2005), and for his poetry he has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alex Haley Foundation. For kicks, he enjoys birding, dance, and travel, and he keeps up a blog, "I Am Big. It's the Pictures That Got Small" <http://picturesthatgotsmall.blogspot.com>.

Danit Brown teaches creative writing at Albion College in Michigan. Her stories have appeared in various journals, including Story, One Story, Glimmer Train, and others, and her collection Ascent is forthcoming from Pantheon, hopefully in 2008. Danit also just had a baby--a son.

After leaving Indiana, Carol Burke went back to grad school and finished her Ph.D. She taught at Goucher College, U.S. Naval Academy, Johns Hopkins University (where she also served as a dean for 10 years), Vanderbilt University, and now at University of California, Irvine where she is a full professor in the English Department, with a secondary appointment in Anthropology. Her latest book, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight, examines military culture. Recent pieces have appeared in The Nation and in Radical History Review. She is just finishing up a piece on an AWOL soldier for the San Francisco Chronicle.

After earning her M.F.A. at Indiana, Cara Diaconoff served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Russia, where she worked as a college-level English instructor, and then returned to the States to take positions as a managing editor at The Gettysburg Review and then as a lecturer in English at Texas Christian University, where she taught creative writing and comp. She has now returned to graduate school; she is in the Ph.D. program in creative writing at U. of Utah. She has recently been awarded a university fellowship there to work on her second novel. Her first book is forthcoming soon: a story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters, to be published in early 2007. She has published individual stories in several journals, including Indiana Review, Other Voices, and South Dakota Review. She has also completed a novel, A Stranger to You, partly inspired by her experiences in Russia, for which she is currently seeking an agent.

Since leaving I.U. in 1989, Elizabeth Dodd has taught at Kansas State University, where she is a professor of English. She is the author of two books of poetry (Like Memory, Caverns and Archetypal Light), a collection of nonfiction essays (Prospect: Journeys & Landscapes), and a book of criticism (The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet).

Shannon Gibney is a 2005 Bush Artist Fellow, and was most recently managing editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. Her articles have appeared in a number of publications, including City Pages, mnartists.org, Black Enterprise Magazine, and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. Her poetry has appeared in Wicked Alice and the Bellingham Review, and you can find her nonfiction in Outsiders Within and Essence Magazine. She was awarded the 2002 Hurston/Wright Award in fiction, and her short fiction has appeared in Brilliant Corners. She is a 2002 graduate of Indiana University's M.F.A. program in fiction and also holds an M.A. in 20th Century African American literature from that institution. Her fiction is forthcoming in BABEL (http://www.icorn.org/) and Tea Party (www.teapartymagazine.org). Several publishers are currently taking a look at her novel Hank Aaron's Daughter, and she recently began her second novel, which explores African Americans who colonized Liberia in the 19th century. She lives in Minneapolis.

Dorian Gossy's collection of stories, Household Lies, was the recipient of the First Book Award in Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Ascent, Beloit Fiction Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Sun, and elsewhere. Dorian has received two fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, an Artist-in-Education residency, a Floyd County Council for the Arts Fellowship residency at the Mary Anderson Center, and fiction prizes from Willow Springs and Seattle Review. She teaches creative writing in adult education classes in Bloomington, Indiana.

Jane Hilberry has been teaching literature and Creative Writing at Colorado College since leaving Indiana University in 1988. She recently published a book of poems titled Body Painting (Red Hen Press) which won the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include a book of biography/art criticism called The Erotic Art of Edgar Britton (Ocean View Books), and poems that have appeared in magazines including the Women's Review of Books, Hudson Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Denver Quarterly. Recently Hilberry has served as a facilitator for programs on Creativity and Leadership, such as the "Art of the Executive Leader" program at the Banff Centre in Canada.

Allison Joseph is currently a professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she serves as the current M.F.A. program director, the editor of Crab Orchard Review, and the director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer conference for teen writers.

Esther Lee's poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Verse Daily, Ploughshares, Cream City Review, Salt Hill, Good Foot, Swink, Runes, New Orleans Review, Hyphen Magazine, Faultline, Born Magazine, and Columbia Poetry Review, among others. She's been awarded the 2004 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize; nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship; and her manuscript was selected as a "Discovery"/The Nation Award semi-finalist and finalist for the Pleiades Press Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize and Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her chapbook, The Blank Missives, is forthcoming by Tremelo Press and she's now seeking publication of a collection of poems, Relapse Deer. She currently teaches in New College of California's MA/MFA Writing & Consciousness Program and also works as a Youth Coordinator for San Francisco's Korean Center, Inc.

Brian Leung currently teaches at the University of Louisville. His short story collection, World Famous Love Acts, won the Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction and the Asian American Literary Award for fiction. Brian’ s fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Story, Crazyhorse, Grain, Gulf Coast, Kinesis, Mid-American Review, Salt Hill, Gulf Stream, River City, Runes, The Bellingham Review, The Connecticut Review, Indiana Review, Crowd, Blithe House Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review. His novel, Lost Men, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart in June, 2007.

After leaving IR, Clint McCown headed the writing program at Beloit College for 20 years, where he also founded and edited the Beloit Fiction Journal. Currently he teaches in the M.F.A. program at Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as in two low-res M.F.A. programs—the Vermont program and the Stonecoast program. He has published the novels The Member Guest, War Memorials, and The Weatherman, and a new one, Haints, is now in circulation. His books of poems include Sidetracks, Wind Over Water, and the forthcoming Dead Languages. He has written a screenplay for Warner Bros., and the screenplay of his novel The Member-Guest is now in development with River One Films. He has twice won the American Fiction Prize (1991, 1993), and he has received the S. Mariella Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers designation. McCown has also had two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize.

Erin McGraw is a professor of English at the Ohio State University. She's published four books of fiction, most recently The Good Life (Houghton-Mifflin, 2004). A new novel is scheduled to come out with Houghton in 2008.

Jon Tribble is the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and the series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press. He is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship Award in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council and his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, and The Jazz Poetry Anthology. His work was selected as the 2001 winner of the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize from Sarah Lawrence College. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and an M.A. and M.F.A. from Indiana University at Bloomington, where he worked on the staff of Indiana Review from 1987 through 1992, including a year as editor. He teaches creative writing and literature, and directs undergraduate and graduate students in internships and independent study in editing and literary publishing for the Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Tracy Truels is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has just completed her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Indiana University, where she served as Editor of Indiana Review. Her poems have appeared in Fugue and Phoebe and collaborative work is forthcoming in Subtropics.

In a previous incarnation, Pamela Wampler worked as a book editor for many years until she couldn't take the deadlines anymore. Now she has a private psychotherapy practice in Indianapolis and deals with managed care. She also writes a monthly column for Indianapolis Woman. One day, perhaps during retirement, she'll write more poems.

Michael Wilkerson converted the expiring Indiana Writes to Indiana Review in 1981 and served as its first editor for 18 months before beginning a career as a teacher and arts administrator. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, directed the Ragdale Foundation artists¹ residency program near Chicago and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass., along with serving as founding chair of the Alliance of Artists Communities. Wilkerson now serves as a faculty member in arts management at American University, conducting research on artist support systems and cultural policy.