Jordan Blum (Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Fiction Editor)
Jordan Blum holds an MFA in fiction and teaches composition and creative writing at several colleges/universities. He’s published creative and/or scholarly pieces in several magazines, journals, and collections. Beyond that, he’s a former Features Editor at PopMatters and a past or present contributor to Grammy.com, Metal Injection, PROG, Consequence, WhatCulture, Loudwire, The Prog Report, and Kerrang! Finally, his three books (On Track: Jethro Tull, On Track: Opeth, and On Track: Dream Theater), were published by Sonicbond Publishing.
Feel free to follow him on Facebook and/or Twitter, as well as email him at jordanblum@thebookendsreview.com.
Anannya Uberoi (Poetry Editor)
Anannya Uberoi is a full-time software engineer and part-time tea connoisseur based in Madrid. She was nominated for Best of Net in 2020. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Loch Raven Review, The Bangalore Review, The Banyan Review, Deep Wild Journal, and Tipton Poetry Journal, among others. Her writing has featured on The Delhi Walla and The Dewdrop, among other literary blogs. She also works as a columnist for The Remnant Archive. An avid traveller, she has extensively toured the Himalayas of Northern India, Bhutan and Nepal.
You can find her on Twitter or on her website, and you can email her at poetryeditor@thebookendsreview.com.
Katrenia Busch (Poetry Editor)
Katrenia Grace Busch is a freelance journalist, poet, and author. She has worked for CBS affiliate TV stations, NPR radio and local newspapers. She holds an associate degree in applied arts for journalism as well as a technical writing certification. She is working towards completing a B.A. in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from SVSU. Her award-winning poem, “Mystery and Wind,” took 2nd place in the 2022 League for Innovation Creative Writing Contest, and her work can be found in 50 Give or Take, Red Penguin Books, Bloom Magazine, The Chamber Magazine, and The Trouvaille Review (among other publications).
She was nominated to a 4-year term by the U.S. Department of Justice as a federal grant reviewer and has served over three years on the APA’s Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice editorial board. She is the author of several forthcoming chapbooks in poetry; specifically, Mystery and Wind is set to appear in 2024 through Written Tales. (This Cardinal Book and The Majestic Moon will also appear in 2024.)
She also serves as a Web of Science mentor for researchers and has been a social media manager/admin for Facebook Poetry Society since 2021 (where she helps publishers and poets at various levels and stages of their work). She also mentors in poetry and has been interviewed for and appeared on Quintessential Listening as a guest in 2023.
You can email her at poetryeditor@thebookendsreview.com.
Kelly Sargent (CNF Editor)
Kelly Sargent is a hearing impaired artist and award-winning author adopted in Luxembourg. Her books include two memoirs in verse entitled Echoes in My Eyes (Kelsay Books, 2024) and Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (Kelsay Books, 2022); a collection of modern haiku and senryu poems entitled Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023); and Sundae Sundays, a storybook for children. Recent honors include: Firebird Book Award winner, The Rash Award in Poetry finalist, Eric Hoffer Award nominee, two-time Touchstone Award for Individual Poems nominee, and two-time Best of the Net nominee. She has also won or placed in a number of international haiku and senryu competitions. Her cover art and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in more than ninety literary journals, most recently including Rattle, Chestnut Review, and Broad River Review. She has written for SIGNews, a national newspaper for the Deaf community, worked with Deaf students in education, and reviewed for a literary magazine dedicated to making visible the artistic expression of sexual violence survivors. Visit her website to learn more about her.
You can email her at creativenonficeditor@thebookendsreview.com.
Mary Ann Hillier (Fiction Editor)
Mary Ann Hillier was born in Chicago, IL; many things happened and she now finds herself in Raleigh, NC, with her two retired racing greyhounds: Empress Sue and Queen Maeve. She has a BA, with honors, in English Lit from Northwestern University, and an MSB from the University of Maryland. She also studied at Georgetown with Marcy Heidish (author of A Woman Called Moses) and at The Writer’s Center with Barbara Esstman (author of Night Ride Home). She served as a reader for The Writer’s Center’s McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize. A long time member of the Eastern Shore Writers Association, Mary Ann served two terms on the ESWA Board. While at Northwestern, her poem “In Memorium” was published in its literary journal, Halcyon. More recently, she has placed two short stories in the Rehoboth Beach Reads series of anthologies; the first, “The Key to Winning” in The Boardwalk, and the second, “The Power of Three” in Beach Holidays.
You can email her at fictioneditor@thebookendsreview.com.
Hannah Davis (Fiction Editor)
Hannah Davis currently lives in TN with her husband and two sons. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maine Farmington and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University. She has been an editor, copywriter, journalist, book reviewer, ghostwriter, and publishing assistant. She’s taught writing at all levels and currently teaches Composition and Literature at Motlow State. She is an essayist and novelist whose work has been published in several journals, including The Rumpus and Adelaide Magazine. Her unpublished manuscript, Flights, was longlisted for the 2021 Petrichor Prize at Regal House Publishing and was a semi-finalist for the 2022 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize.
You can email her at fictioneditor@thebookendsreview.com.
Susann Cokal (Book Recommendations Editor)
Susann Cokal’s novels are The Kingdom of Little Wounds (winner of several national awards in the US, also banned in some school districts), Breath and Bones, Mermaid Moon, and Mirabilis. Her sometimes prize-winning short work has appeared in places such as Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, Sequestrum, The Journal, Gemini, Electric Literature, Enchanted Living, and The New York Times Book Review. A freelance writer and editor, she lives physically in a creepy old farmhouse in Richmond, Virginia and on the web.
You can email her at bookrecseditor@thebookendsreview.com.
