John Matthew Steinhafel
Editor in Chief
John Matthew Steinhafel (Issue 17.2–) was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds a BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MFA from Western Kentucky University, and a PhD from The Catholic University of America, where he is a lecturer in American Literature. His creative work has appeared in Plainsongs and Every Day Fiction, among other venues, and his scholarship/criticism has appeared most recently in The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) and The Robert Frost Review. He received the Eleanor Clark Award from the Robert Penn Warren Circle in 2022 and now serves as a member of the board of the Robert Penn Warren Circle. He is an active member of the International T. S. Eliot Society and the Ralph Ellison Society, and the Office Manager of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
Matthew Buckley Smith
Poetry Editor
Matthew Buckley Smith (Issue 17.2–) (Associate Editor, 11.1-17.1) is the author of Midlife (Measure Press, 2024), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, and Dirge for an Imaginary World (Able Muse Press, 2012), winner of the Able Muse Book Award. His poems have appeared in periodicals including AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Threepenny Review, and have been reprinted in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. He has taught creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and The Redbud Writing Project. He serves on the advisory board of Tar River Poetry, and he hosts the poetry and culture podcast SLEERICKETS.
Caitlin Doyle
Interviews Editor
Caitlin Doyle (Issue 13.2–) has published poems, essays, and reviews in The Guardian, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, The Atlantic, Best New Poets, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured through the PBS NewsHour Online Poetry Series, Poetry Daily, and American Life in Poetry. Caitlin has received awards and fellowships through the Yaddo Colony, the MacDowell Colony, the James Merrill House, the Jack Kerouac House, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, among others. She earned a PhD as an Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she served as Associate Editor of The Cincinnati Review. Caitlin has taught at Boston University, Interlochen Arts Academy, St. Albans School, and Penn State Altoona, among others. Currently a faculty member at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, she is working toward the completion of her debut poetry collection.
Chris Childers
Translations Editor
Chris Childers (Issue 13.2–) is a poet and translator with an M.F.A in Poetry from The Johns Hopkins University. He has published poems, essays, and translations in journals such as Agni, Barrow Street, The Dark Horse, The Hopkins Review, The Kenyon Review, Parnassus, PN Review, and The Yale Review, and he is the original poetry editor at Classical Outlook. He is currently finishing an anthology of translations of Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry from Archilochus to Martial for Penguin Classics. He lives in Baltimore, MD.
Cameron Clark
Associate Poetry Editor
Cameron Clark (Issue 16.1–) was born and raised in the south of England, near London. He is studying a BA in English Language and Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. He has had short fiction and micro-fictional works published in several anthologies, and his poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Autumn Sky Poetry Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Agenda Poetry Magazine, Literary Matters, Image Journal, Ice Floe Press, and Cherwell. He also co-hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS.
Alexis Sears
Contributing Editor
Alexis Sears (Issue 16.2–) is the author of Out of Order (Autumn House Press), winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is Editor at-Large of the Northwest Review and lives in Los Angeles.
Ryan Wilson
Editor Emeritus
Ryan Wilson (Issue 17.2–) (Editor In Chief, 9.1-17.1) was born in Griffin, GA, and raised in nearby Macon. He is the author of The Stranger World (Measure Press, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, of How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood 2019), of Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020 (Franciscan UP, 2021), and of In Ghostlight (LSU, 2024). His work appears in periodicals such as: Best American Poetry, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale Review. He lives in Texas and teaches in the M.F.A. program at The University of St. Thomas-Houston. He is Emeritus Editor of Literary Matters and co-editor, with April Lindner of Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Paraclete, 2024).
Jeffrey Peters
Production Editor
Jeffrey Peters (Issue 9.1–) is a teacher, researcher, and writer. He has his PhD in English Language and Literature from Catholic University of America, an Master’s in Reading and a Master’s in Teaching from Towson University, and a Master’s in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Annapolis. He wrote a column for Tribune publications for 13 years and has articles in many journals, websites, and newspapers about literature, religion, and social issues. He has also edited and published websites, journals, and encyclopedias with a focus on literature. He lives in Baltimore, MD.
Previous Masthead:
Ryan Wilson, Editor-in-Chief (Issue 9.1-17.1)
Joanna Pearson, Fiction Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Armen Davoudian, Poetry Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Mike Mattison, ‘Hot Rocks’ Feature Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Ernest Suarez, ‘Hot Rocks’ Feature Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Matthew Buckley Smith, Associate Editor (Issue 11.1-17.1)
Raphael Krut-Landau, Web Editor (Issue 15.3-17.1)