STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
LUCI ELLEN ROLLER
Luci Ellen Roller’s chapbook, Home Brew, was released in 2015. Her poems previously appeared or are forthcoming in Moon City Review, Menacing Hedge, Rogue Agent, Tinderbox, and others. She received her MFA at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she currently teaches composition classes and works as a buyer for a used bookstore.
ADA WOFFORD
Ada Wofford holds a BA in English, an MA in Library and Information Studies, and is currently pursuing their MA in English at the University of Rochester. They are a contributing editor to The Blue Nib literary magazine, they worked as an editorial intern at Sundress Publications, and they have been published in Otherwise Engaged, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Autostraddle, Literary Heist, and more. They are also the founding editor of My Little Underground, a music review blog written exclusively by musicians.
SHAUN TURNER
Shaun Turner serves as Fiction Editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection and co-editor at Fire Poetry Journal. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in Bayou Magazine, storySouth, Fourth River, and Appalachian Heritage, among others. Shaun has been named finalist in Best Small Fictions 2018 and received the Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council.
STEPHANIE LEE PHILLIPS
Stephanie Lee Phillips is a writer and photographer in Tennessee where she works at her alma mater (go vols) and hangs out with mostly poets. She has her masters in fiction from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and works closely with the local literary non-profit Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is the co-host of the literary podcast Shitty First Drafts and her work can be found in Entropy Magazine.
KRISTA COX
For money, Krista Cox is a paralegal. For joy, she’s an associate poetry editor at Stirring: A Literary Collection and Executive Director of Lit Literary Collective, a nonprofit serving her local literary community. Her poetry has appeared in Columbia Journal, Rappahannock Review, The Humanist, and elsewhere.
J.P. CRAIG
J.P. Craig is an associate professor of English at Alabama State University and a contributing editor to New American Notes Online and the literary critical journal Reconfigurations. His work has appeared in 5_trope, Outerbridge, The Graduate Bulletin of the University of Iowa, The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Artful Dodge, Verse, River City magazine, New American Notes Online, Paideuma, and in the critical collection Reading Duncan Reading. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Memphis and his doctorate from the University of Iowa.
SARAH GHOSHAL
Sarah Ghoshal's work has been published widely in journals such as Cream City Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Mom Egg Review, and The Moon Magazine, among others. She is a professor at Montclair State University, a mom of three, a partner, resister, persister, woman, entrepreneur, and giant fan of Bugs Bunny. She lives in Jersey.
CHRISTOS KALLI
Christos Kalli studied American Literature at the University of Cambridge. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Ninth Letter, the Adroit Journal, the National Poetry Review, the American Journal of Poetry, Faultline, the minnesota review, PANK, The Hollins Critic, Harpur Palate, and Dunes Review, among others. His chapbook INT. NIGHT / Nightscarred was a finalist for the Sutra Press Chapbook Contest (2017/2019). From 2017 to 2019, he has served on the editorial board of the Adroit Journal and now he is an Associate Poetry Editor for Stirring. Visit him at christoskalli.com
MADELINE LAUVER
Madeline Lauver is a poet, filmmaker, and Fulbrighter currently teaching English in Germany. Before serving as an associate poetry editor at Stirring, she was the editor in chief of Kalamazoo College's study abroad magazine, Passage, and an assistant editor of K's literary journal, The Cauldron. You can find her daydreaming about the Great Lakes, cuddling her dogs, and online at madelinelauver.com. Her poems have been published by Apricity Press and Cellar Door.
EDWARD SAMBRANO
Edward Sambrano III is from San Antonio, Texas. An MFA candidate at the University of Florida, his recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Salamander Magazine, DIAGRAM, and Pidgeonholes, among other publications. He can be found on Twitter @SambranoPoet
SARAH JORDAN STOUT
When not reading poetry, Sarah Jordan Stout works at an environmental nonprofit fighting pollution and fossil fuel buildout across the state of Texas. She has had poems in Connotation Press, Rust+Moth, Sleet, and others including Stirring. She has a masters degree in literature from West Virginia University, and lives and writes in Houston with Kinky Tail, her dignified cat with a crooked tail.
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M has served as an Associate Poetry Editor for Stirring for over a decade. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals including Rattle, Harpur Palate, and Pedestal, and was a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize in 2011 and in 2012. She also serves as an Administrator of an online poetry workshop and as a co-chair for the Portland Unit of the Oregon Poetry Association. Her poetry chapbook, To That Mythic Country Called Closure, a collection on the subject of widowhood, was released by Concrete Wolf Press in 2013.
MEGAN STANDBROOK
Megan Standbrook Writer. Whiskey. Wolverine. M.K. Standbrook was born and raised in Nashville, TN. She has been involved in Sundress affairs since a spring workshop in 2011. She began as an intern at Stirring in 2012 and is now an associate poetry editor. Standbrook received her Undergraduate in Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
JOHN TURNER
John Turner is an Instructor of English at Scott Community College in Davenport, Iowa. His work has appeared in Short Stuff, Samsara Quarterly, Astronomy, Lyrical Iowa, Haiku Hut, Squashblossom, Black&White, The Poet, and Stirring, among others. He is a James Hearst Poetry Award winner, and the first online Slammaster for Simon&Shuster and Warner Bros. He has judged the Third Fusion Poetry Competiton, as well as the 2004 Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. John has also written and starred in 30 plays in the last 20 years, won poetry slams in the Quad cities, had poems and plays commissioned in Illinois and Iowa, and has never beaten Erin Elizabeth at Insomniac's Society Poetry Slams.
ERIN ELIZABETH SMITH
Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Managing Editor of Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe. She is the author of two full-length collections and the editor of two anthologies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Ecotone, Mid-American, Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, and in 2017 she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.
