The Oklahoma Review, 18.2

Ashley Arredondo is a 2020 graduate of Cameron University with a B.A. in English, a memoirist, and visual artist. She has been awarded the Leigh Holmes Prize for Creative Non-Fiction both in 2019 and 2020 and is published in the 2019 The Rose Journal and the 2019 and 2020 The Gold Mine for her creative non-fiction.

Joey Brown writes poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in several literary journals including Concho River Review, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, The Red Earth Review, Tulsa Review, and San Pedro River Review. She is the author of two poetry collections: Oklahomaography (Mongrel Empire Press) and The Feral Love Poems (Hungry Buzzard Press). Joey lives in Missouri with her husband, prose writer Michael Howarth, and their rescue dogs in their somewhat renovated house.

Nicholas (Nick) Brush is a PhD student in Renaissance Literature at the University of North Texas. Even though Nick’s current scholarship focuses on early modern drama, he strives to give a voice to non-combat veterans serving in combat zones. Nick’s poetry has been published in multiple journals, including Petrichor, Dragon Poet Review, and The Central Dissent. His first poetry collection, tentatively titled Hurry Up and Wait: War Poems from the Not-So-Frontlines, is still in progress, but he hopes to finish it sometime within the next decade.

Grace Campbell is the fiction editor at 5x5. She is a founding writer at Black River Press and author of the chapbook Girlie Shorts. She was awarded a fellowship at The Mineral School and nominated by CutBank for a Best Of The Net. Her work has been featured in Best Small Fictions (2019), Joyland, Brevity, Jellyfish, New Flash Fiction Review, Atticus Review and elsewhere. She dreams of owning a corgi or five.

Seth Copeland’s poetry has appeared in Yes Poetry, Kestrel, Heavy Feather Review, SOFTBLOW, and Dream Pop, among others. Originally from Oklahoma, he currently teaches and studies in Milwaukee. He tweets @ SethTCopeland.

Wendy Dunmeyer, a CU alum, received her M.F.A. from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

She was a finalist for the Morton Marr Poetry Prize (2011), and her work has appeared in Sugar Mule, Measure, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. She has conducted free poetry workshops for children grades K-12 at her local library and volunteered as a visiting writer at local elementary schools.

George McCormick has published fiction most recently in The Santa Monica Review and Big Muddy. He is the author of two books, the short story collection Salton Sea and the novel Inland Empire. In 2013 he won an O. Henry prize for his short story “The Mexican.” “The Dishwasher’s Tale” is a part of a novel in progress.

Michael Milburn teaches high school English in New Haven, CT. His poems have appeared recently in Mudlark, Coe Review and Clackamas Review. His book of poems, Carpe Something, was published by Word Press in 2012.

John Graves Morris, Professor of English at Cameron University, is the author of Noise and Stories, a collection published in 2008 by Plain View Press. A second collection, entitled The County Seat of Wanting So Many Things, is still seeking a publisher. His poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in The Windward Review, Red Dirt, The Concho River Review, and Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush. He lives in Lawton.

69