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Christina Mun-Lutz

Secretary & Treasurer, VIDA Review Editor-in-Chief

Christina Mun-Lutz is a Korean-American poet and lives in St. Petersburg, FL. Originally hailing from Columbus, OH, she received her BA from The Ohio State University and later attended the...

Danielle Janess

VIDA Review, Interim Managing Editor, Assistant Poetry Editor

Danielle Janess’ debut poetry book, The Milk of Amnesia, is coming from MQUP in Fall 2020. A Canadian interdisciplinary writer and theatre artist, her work has appeared in journals and anthologies...

Fiction

Grace Johnson

VIDA Review, Fiction Editor

Grace Johnson lives in Astoria, New York. She studied English and Music at Brown University and has read for Synecdoche Press, The Round, Milkweed Editions, Coffee House Press, and Farrar,...

Naomi Krupitsky Wernham

VIDA Review, Assistant Fiction Editor

Naomi Krupitsky Wernham is originally from Berkeley, California. She holds a bachelor’s degree from NYU, where she studied creative writing, aesthetic philosophy, and mythology. She has several years of experience...

Ellen Darion

VIDA Review, Fiction Reader

Ellen Darion’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Epoch,Under the Sun, Defunct, and other publications.She taught creative writing and composition at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her M.F.A.,...

Monica Macansantos

VIDA Review, Fiction Reader

Monica Macansantos is a fiction writer, essayist, and poet from the Philippines. She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her...

Sandy Naing

VIDA Review, Fiction Reader

Sandy Naing is a fiction writer living in Brooklyn, NY by way of the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied creative writing at UC Berkeley and UCLA Extension and received...

Olivia Postelli

VIDA Review, Fiction Reader

Olivia Postelli received her MFA in fiction from Oregon State University. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online and in Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts. She lives in Chicago and tweets...

Nonfiction

Rachel Villa

VIDA Review, Nonfiction Editor

Rachel Villa is an essayist, poet, and editor from small-town Maryland who currently lives in Portland, Oregon. She has edited for The Hawkins Project, The Believer, Grub Street, and Discourse and her nonfiction has...

Harmony Hazard

VIDA Review, Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Harmony Hazard hails from Tucson and New York. She received her MFA from Stony Brook University and her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Hippocampus, The Rumpus, Catapult,...

Rose Heredia

VIDA Review, Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Rose Heredia is Dominican-American and from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, currently living in Oakland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. She is a...

Lisa Allen

VIDA Review, Nonfiction Reader

Lisa Allen is a writer, editor, and librarian based in Kansas City. She was a Michael Steinberg Fellow at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor...

Poetry

Christina Shideler

VIDA Review, Poetry Editor

Christina Shideler received her MFA in poetry from The New School, where she was an assistant poetry editor at LIT. Her work has appeared in publications including DIAGRAM, Painted Bride...

Rachel Britton

VIDA Review, Assistant Poetry Editor

Rachel Britton is a writer and translator in Queens, New York, where she works for Poets & Writers Magazine and cares for many plants. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Gandy...

Danielle Janess

VIDA Review, Interim Managing Editor, Assistant Poetry Editor

Danielle Janess’ debut poetry book, The Milk of Amnesia, is coming from MQUP in Fall 2020. A Canadian interdisciplinary writer and theatre artist, her work has appeared in journals and anthologies...

Kinsey Cantrell

VIDA Review, Poetry Reader

Kinsey Cantrell is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her work appears in Interim, Black Warrior Review, Nat. Brut, Anomaly, Datableed, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for The...

Genevieve Hartman

VIDA Review, Poetry Reader

Genevieve Hartman recently graduated from Houghton College with a BA in English and Adolescence Education, where she was the head editor of The Lanthorn. She is a poet, a former intern with...

Amanda Moore

VIDA Review, Poetry Reader

Amanda Moore’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, Best New Poets, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and she is the recipient...

Jeri Theriault

VIDA Review, Poetry Reader

Jeri Theriault’s poetry collections include radost, my red (Moon Pie Press) and the award-winning In the Museum of Surrender (Encircle Publications). Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming...

Interviews & Reviews

Manisha AR

VIDA Review, Interviews & Reviews Editor

Manisha is a storyteller and cultural critic, currently working out of Bangalore. She has written about film, literature, performance, and interdisciplinary shows for the Adroit Journal, Chicago Artist Writers, Newcity...