The Who, the What, the Why
Founded in 2012, The Bookends Review is an independent creative arts journal dedicated to bringing you the best original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays, book reviews, and visual/musical works from around the world. General inquiries can be sent to info@thebookendsreview.com.
Jordan Blum (Founder/Editor-in-Chief + Features, CNF & Book Recs 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.