Join the editorial team of Maryland’s The Loch Raven Review for an evening reading as well as a craft discussion on quality submissions. We will pull the curtain back a bit to reveal and discuss the considerations and processes by which one literary magazine makes its decisions in order to bring the best local, national, and international writing to its readers.
The Editors:
Dan Cuddy is currently an editor of the Loch Raven Review. In the past he was a contributing editor of the Maryland Poetry Review and an editor for Lite: Baltimore’s Literary Newspaper. He has had a book of poetry published “Handprint on the Window” in 2003. Most recently he has had poems published in the End of 83, Broadkill Review, Welter, the Twisted Vine Literary Journal, the Pangolin Review, Madness Muse Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, the Rats’s Ass Review, Roanoke Review, and the LA Cultural Daily.
Jim Doss is a founding editor of the Loch Raven Review. He earns his living as a software engineer and lives with his wife and three children in Sykesville, Maryland. He has previously published two books of poetry, Learning to Talk Again and What Remains, and, in partnership with Werner Schmitt, translated Georg Trakl’s complete poetical works into a volume entitled The Last Gold of Expired Stars.
Matt Hohner is an editor for Loch Raven Review. His work has appeared in The Moth, takahē, Prairie Schooner, New Contrast, Narrative Magazine, and many other publications. Hohner’s first collection of poetry, Thresholds and Other Poems was published by Apprentice House in 2018. His forthcoming collection will be published by Salmon Poetry next year. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Alan Britt’s poems have appeared in Agni Review, American Poetry Review, Bitter Oleander, Christian Science Monitor, Cottonwood, English Journal, Kansas Quarterly, Midwest Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Osiris, Stand (UK), plus countless others. He has been nominated for the 2021 International Janus Pannonius Prize awarded by the Hungarian Centre of PEN International for excellence in poetry from any part of the world. Previous nominated recipients include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bernstein and Yves Bonnefoy. Alan was interviewed at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem. He has published 20 books of poetry and served as Art Agent for Andy Warhol Superstar, the late great Ultra Violet, while often reading poetry at her Chelsea, New York studio. Alan is a poetry editor for the Loch Raven Review. A graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University he currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.
Ginny Phalen graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a Bachelor’s degree in English literature. She has had poems and short stories published in magazines such as Connections and Bartleby, and has written for various newspapers, including The Retriever and The Enterprise. She currently lives in Arlington, VA, where she works for the Department of Defense and writes in her free time.
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Spillway, Subtropics, Tupelo Quarterly and numerous other magazines and anthologies. Danuta is the author of Oblige the Light (CityLit Press, 2015), winner of the fifth Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize, and Face Half-Illuminated (Apprentice House, 2015), a book of poems and translations. She is the translator for four books by Lidia Kosk, and editor of two books, including Szklana góra/Glass Mountain, featuring Lidia Kosk’s poem in twenty-two languages. In addition to Lidia Kosk, she has translated various Polish voices, including Ernest Bryll, Wisława Szymborska, and recently Grzegorz Białkowski and Stanisław Lem. Danuta's translations of poems by four Maryland Poets Laureate--Lucille Clifton, Josephine Jacobsen, Linda Pastan, and Grace Cavalieri--have been published in Poland and in the USA. She is Poetry Translations Editor at Loch Raven Review. Danuta grew up in Poland and now lives in Maryland, USA. http://danutakk.wordpress.com
Baltimore satirist and fiction writer D.R. Belz has published widely in newspapers, literary journals, and online. His work has appeared in such publications as The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Examiner, The Patch, The Loch Raven Review, The Antietam Review, Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore, and The MacGuffin. He studied fiction writing with novelists James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and J.R. Salamanca (Lilith) at the University of Maryland. His fiction has twice won Honorable Mention in the City Paper Annual Fiction Competition. A collection of his essays, poetry, and fiction, White Asparagus, is available from Amazon.com in both print and e-book. Reach him at dbelz@aol.com.
Featuring Pushcart Nominees:
Susan Cossette lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Author of Peggy Sue Messed Up, she is a recipient of the University of Connecticut’s Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rust and Moth, Vita Brevis, ONE ART, As it Ought to Be, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Amethyst Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Loch Raven Review, and in the anthologies Tuesdays at Curley’s and After the Equinox.
Patty Dickson Pieczka’s third book, Beyond the Moon's White Claw won the David Martinson — Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press (2018). Her second book, Painting the Egret's Echo, won the Library of Poetry Book Award from The Bitter Oleander (2012). Her work has won several contests for individual poems and has been in more than 50 journals. Visit at http://www.pattywrites.net/
