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, 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.comMetal InjectionPROGConsequenceWhatCulture, Loudwire, The Prog Report, and Kerrang! Finally, his three books (On Track: Jethro TullOn 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 has written for SIGNews, a national newspaper for the Deaf community, and also reviewed for a literary magazine dedicated to making visible the artistic expression of sexual violence survivors. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Beyond Words and is the author of two poetry books: Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion and Lilacs and Teacups. Cover art and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in more than seventy publications, including Rattle, Chestnut Review, and Newfound. Her works have received nominations for 2021 Best of the Net, a 2022 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems, and a 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award. A poem recognized in the 2022 Golden Haiku poetry contest received a placard in Washington, D.C. A children’s book entitled Sundae Sundays is also forthcoming. Visit her at www.kellysargent.com.

You can email her at creativenonficeditor@thebookendsreview.com.