Issue #12 Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Eric Willis
Eric Willis lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a writer, reader, world traveler, visual artist, pharmacist, and avid amateur pickleball player. As a student of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, he is the 2021 Emerging Writer Award winner in creative nonfiction. He makes his home with one dog, one cat, one fish, and one amazing fellow human being.
Alumni Editor: Whitnee Thorpe
Whitnee Thorp was raised in Lexington, KY by her single mother and grandmother. She attended the School for the Creative and Performing Arts and the KY Governor's School for the Arts. She recently moved back to Kentucky from living in South Dakota for the last decade where she taught at a local tribal college and worked in the community for education equity focusing on Indigenous education. She has a BA in Communications with a double minor in English Writing and Women's Studies from Western Kentucky University. She also has her MFA in Creative Writing from the @Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University and is currently pursuing a doctorate of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership with an emphasis in Diversity & Equity from the University of Illinois. Some of her publications include PMS Poemmemoirstory, Veils, Halos, and Shackles, and Pasque Petals. She won the South Dakota Poetry Society's annual chapbook contest with her chapbook, Cicurate in 2017 and her second chapbook, Kintsukuori was published by Finishing Line Press during October 2017.
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Bailey Vandiver
Bailey Vandiver is a second-year student in Creative Nonfiction at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. A Kentucky native, she now lives in Lexington with her two cats, Leo McGarry and George O’Malley. She owns 16 typewriters and too many books that she hasn’t read. She writes mostly about her family and civil rights pioneer (and fellow Kentuckian) Alice Dunnigan.
Fiction Editor: William McQueen
William McQueen (you can call him Bill) is a native of rural Indiana who now calls Northern Kentucky home. A second-year student of Bluegrass Writer Studio, he spends his free time reading, writing, enjoying a variety of outdoor activities, and—to the mild amusement of his wife and children—steadfastly cheering for his beloved Cincinnati Reds and Bengals. He probably should have said beloved before wife and children, instead.
Poetry Editor: Andrew Analore
Andrew Analore lives and writes in Madison, Wisconsin. His poetry has appeared in Stolen Island Review, Technology of the Sun, South 85 Journal, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Olivetree Review and other journals. He was the 22020 recipient of the Bluegrass Writers Studios Emerging Writer Award for Poetry. He was the poetry editor for issue 9 of Jelly Bucket.
