Waxwing Editors
Poetry Editor
Iliana Rocha(she/her)
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Iliana Rocha is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry for her newest collection, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez, from Tupelo Press. Karankawa, her debut, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). The recipient of a 2020 CantoMundo fellowship and 2019 MacDowell fellowship, she has had work featured or forthcoming in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, Oxford American, and Blackbird among others. She earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo are the loves of her life.
Poetry Editor
Alyssa Jewell(she/her)
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Alyssa Jewell coordinates the Poets in Print Reading Series for the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center and is a Ph.D. student at Western Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Witness, North American Review, and Poet Lore, among other publications. She is co-editor of poetry for Third Coast and served as an assistant reader and editor for seven years at New Issues Poetry and Prose. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches ESL and creative writing courses.
Fiction Editor
Cody Greene(he/him)
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Cody Greene lives in Woolwich, Maine. He received his MFA from Western Michigan University and has formerly served as managing editor and fiction editor for Third Coast. His work has appeared in Pacifica Literary Review, plain china, and Roanoke Review.
Fiction Editor and Social Media Editor
Allison Field Bell(she/her)
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Allison Field Bell is originally from northern California but has spent most of her adult life in the desert. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Prose at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. Her prose appears in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, New Orleans Review, West Branch, Epiphany, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Palette Poetry, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, The Greensboro Review, Nimrod International Journal, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.
Nonfiction Editor
Silas Hansen(he/him)
silas@waxwingmag.org
Silas Hansen’s essays have appeared in The Normal School, Colorado Review, Slate, Redivider, Waccamaw, Best of the Net 2017, The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from the Normal School, and elsewhere. He lives in Muncie, Indiana, and teaches creative writing and literary publishing at Ball State University.
Translations Editor
Tyler Goldman(he/him)
Tyler Goldman's poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah and teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he lives.
Managing Editor
Amy Sailer(she/her)
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Amy Sailer is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her poetry appears in Michigan Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, New South, Hotel Amerika, Meridian, and Sycamore Review, where she won the 2020 Wabash Poetry Prize, and she has received support from the Willapa Bay Residence program, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and son.
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