ABOUT OUR STAFF

Amanda Auchter is the editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of the chapbook, Light Under Skin (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Her awards include the 2007 Theodore Morrison Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the 2006 BOMB Magazine Poetry Prize, and the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review. Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, Barrow Street, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Daily, and others. Her recommended reading list: The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes and Broken Helix by Dina Ben-Lev. Visit her blog.

Matthew Siegel is the assistant editor of Pebble Lake Review. He has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a 2006 Bucknell Younger Poets Seminar fellowship, and a 2007 work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. An MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, his work appears in Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Passages North, Paterson Literary Review, and Poetry Daily. His recommended reading list: Songs of Jerusalem and Myself by Yehuda Amichai and Tar by C.K. Williams.

Jeffrey Wood is the online editor at Pebble Lake Review. His specialties are endless patience, HTML code, and bringing the editor cups of Earl Grey tea. His recommended reading list: The Subsequent Blues by Gary Copeland Lilley, Jelly Roll by Kevin Young, and Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer.

Eddie Gonzalez, Jr. is the fiction editor of Pebble Lake Review. He is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. He has worked at World Literature Today magazine and the University of Oklahoma Press. His recommended reading list: Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

Sarah Gajkowski-Hill is the nonfiction co-editor of Pebble Lake Review and author of Distracted (Diversity, Inc., 2000). She teaches in the Writers in the Schools Program and at Houston Community College. Her reviews have been published in Arts Houston, The Houston Press, The Free Press, CuiZine Magazine, among others. Her recommended reading list: Antony & Cleopatra by Shakespeare and Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreft.

Margaret MacInnis is the nonfiction co-editor of Pebble Lake Review. Her awards include the 2007 William Raney Scholarship in Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the 2005 Literal Latté Ames Essay Contest, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. An MA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Iowa, her nonfiction appears in Crab Orchard Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Her recommended reading list: Dog Years by Mark Doty and On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura.

Todd Dillard is a contributing editor of Pebble Lake Review. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the 2004 recipient of the Penani Poetry Prize. His writing appears in LUMINA, NANO Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, Poesis and SUB-Lit. His recommended reading list: Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen and The Disappointment Artists:Essays by Jonathan Lethem.

Elizabeth McDonnell is a contributing editor of Pebble Lake Review and works at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a 2005 Bucknell Younger Poets Fellowship, her work has recently appeared in Rapportage, Prolog, and Pebble Lake Review. She is working on an MS in Arts Administration at Drexel University. Her recommended reading list: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried and Selected Poems by Rita Dove.

Rebecca Wadlinger is a contributing editor of Pebble Lake Review and an MFA candidate and James A. Michener Fellow in poetry and playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. A 2005 June Fellow in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2007, Cimarron Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Verse Daily. Her recommended reading list: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton and Une Semaine de Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst.