ABOUT OUR STAFF

Amanda Auchter is the founding/managing editor of Pebble Lake Review. A former Theodore Morrison Poetry Scholar for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she has received awards and honors from Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and others. Her writing appears in American Poetry Review, Court Green, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College-CyFair. Visit her blog.

Marissa Sinisi is Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and holds an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College. She has taught at The Pennsylvania State University’s Greater Allegheny Campus and at the Community College of Allegheny County. Her recent poetry has appeared in Renovation Journal.

Rebecca Wadlinger is Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She received her MFA in poetry and playwriting from the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. A 2005 June Fellow in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, her writing has most recently appeared in Anti-, the Best New Poets anthology, Cimarron Review, and Verse Daily. Her play, No One Else in the Woods Tonight, was a nominee for the 2008 Austin Critics Table/ David Mark Cohen New Play Award.

Eddie Gonzalez is the general prose editor of Pebble Lake Review studied writing and Spanish literature at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Houston and has worked at the editorial offices of World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma Press. A teacher, rosary maker, apprentice upholsterer and Moon Jump repairman, he writes out of Corpus Christi and has work forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review.

Jeffrey Wood is the web editor at Pebble Lake Review. His specialties are endless patience, HTML code, and bringing the editor cups of Earl Grey tea. Despite current rumors, he is not an astronaut.

Elizabeth McDonnell is a contributing editor of Pebble Lake Review and works in the Environmental History and Policy program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. Elizabeth has an MS in Arts Administration from Drexel University and a BA in poetry from Franklin & Marshall College. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a 2005 Bucknell Younger Poets Fellowship.