Mojave River Review - Summer 2014

Megan Hudgins is a former graduate student and instructor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she was also the editing assistant for Sou’Wester Literary Magazine. You can find some of her work in SIUE's in-house journal, River Bluff Review and online journals Anti- and Toad: The Journal. She was also featured as one of the River Styx's “Hungry Young Poets.”

Tom Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University, the director of Steel Toe Books, and the bassist for the litcore rock band Manley Pointer. Forthcoming are his fourth full-length book Plunk (Wayne State College Press) and an edited collection of essays called Creative Writing Studies: An Introduction to Its Pedagogies (Southern Illinois University Press).

His poems have been featured three times on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor and five times on Verse Daily.

Among his publication credits are Atlanta Review, New Orleans Review, Five Points, TriQuarterly, North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and New York Quarterly. He divides his time between Kansas and Oz. Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll’s book Grace Only Follows won the 2010 National Federation of Press Women Contest and was a finalist for Drake University’s 2012 Emerging Writer Prize. Her poems have appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Passager, Caesura, Controlled Burn, Mojave River Review, and received a Pushcart Prize nomination. She’s a retired piano teacher.

Whittney Jones is an MFA candidate at Murray State University. She lives in a small town in Southern Illinois where 240