AMY SAGE WEBB-BAZA

Managing Editor

Amy Sage Webb is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing program at Emporia State University where she was named the 2012 Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor and earned the 2008 CLAS Award for Outstanding Service & 2007 CLAS Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals such as Fourth River  and Clackamas Literary Review, and in 2007 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2012 she released her first book, Save Your Own Life, a collection of short stories.

She has edited several literary journals, including Kansas Quarterly and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She also serves as managing editor for Bluestem Press and continues to serve on the editorial board of Woodley Memorial Press and as a reviewer for the Kansas Arts Commission and Ohio Arts Council.

KEVIN RABAS

Advisory Editor

Kevin Rabas is the 2017-2019 Kansas Poet Laureate. He teaches creative writing and literature at Emporia State University where he serves as the Chair of the English, Modern Languages, and Journalism department.

An avid jazz drummer and critic, Rabas writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). His published books of poetry include Bird’s Horn and Other Poems and Sonny Kenner's Red Guitar (Coal City Review Press), and Lisa's Flying Electric Piano (Woodley Press.) Spider Face, a collection of his short stories, was released by Otoliths, and most recently Green Bike: A Group Novel, was released by Meadowlark. 

He has poems, stories, and plays published in venues such as Nimrod, The Malahat Review, The Laurel Review, Kansas English, and The Mid-America Poetry Review.