WHO WE ARE:
Founding and Managing Editor-in-Chief
Michelle Messina Reale is a Professor and librarian at Arcadia University. She is the author of nine collections of poetry including her most recent Season of Subtraction, Bordighera Press, 2019, and In the Blink of a Mottled Eye, Kelsay Books, 2020. Forthcoming in 2020 is Confini: Poems of Refugees in Sicily, Cervena Barva Press, Reale’s work has been published widely both online and in print. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her work appeared in the 2010 Best of the Net Anthology. She conducts ethnography among African refugees in Sicily and conducts research in may other areas, including all aspects of Italian-American identity and life, narrative inquiry and narrative inheritance, autoethnography and others . She is Sicilian and Calabrese on her father’s side, Neopolitan on her mother’s. You can reach Michelle at ovunquesiamo1@gmail.com.
Poetry Editor
CHAD FRAME earned his MFA at Arcadia University. His poetry, fiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in decomP, Rust+Moth, Menacing Hedge, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Calamus Journal, Prick of the Spindle,Rag Queen Periodical, and elsewhere. He is the 2017 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and has used this platform to organize MARGINS, a diversity panel of minority artist voices who speak at schools and other venues about their unique experiences. Chad has been nominated for Best of the Net, is a past Literary Death Match pugilist, and lives with a Maine Coon named Jabberwocky in an outlying Philadelphia suburb.
SPRING 2022 INTERNS
Michaela Coll is an undergraduate student at Arcadia University earning her English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Professional Writing. She is heavily involved on campus, working as a writing consultant and social media manager for the Writing Center, an editor for The Compass, a scholarly journal run by honors students, Quiddity, a literary magazine, and is also secretary for Arcadia’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta. She is currently writing her first chapbook reflecting on the past few years of her life, creating her own bildungsroman collection of poetry. Recently, Michaela has been featured on Arcadia’s English department’s page as the Featured Writer of Fall 2021. She was published in Moonstone Arts Center New Voices Issue #4 and Loco Mag. You can reach Michaela at mcoll@arcadia.edu.
Vincent Sergiacomi is a senior English major at Arcadia University. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Pacific, The Eunoia Review, Quiddity, and in the Moonstone Arts Center’s New Voices Anthology. He is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, and recently wrote his undergraduate thesis on Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris. When not engaged in matters of the literary persuasion, Vincent enjoys going on long walks, spending time with his pals, and enjoying the smaller moments of life. He was born and raised in Flushing, Queens, and hopes to return to New York at some point in the future.
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I am the author of CALL ME GUIDO , published by Ovunque Siamo Press.
In 2018, my short story collections, Hallucinating Huxley and Freud’s Haberdashery Habit, were published by Alien Buddha Press. Both are also available on Amazon.
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My writings have appeared in Ovunque Siamo, Narratively, Mad Swirl, Pif Magazine, Longshot Island, Beautiful Losers, The Honest Ulsterman, Chagrin River Review, The New Engagement and many other publications. IN 2018 , I was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I am currently an Associate Editor for MadSwirl Magazine.
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BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Nicole Greaves holds an MFA from Columbia University and an M.Ed. in special education. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes by The Academy of American Poets and the Leeway Foundation of Philadelphia. She was a 2015 finalist for the Coniston Prize of Radar Poetry, who also nominated her for The Best of the Net. She was a 2020 finalist for the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest and the Dogfish Head Poetry Contest. Nicole is a former poet laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and lives right outside Philadelphia with her family, where she teaches English and creative writing. She is partly of Panamanian and Sicilian descent.
Elizabeth Jaeger is a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her essays, short stories, book reviews and poetry have been published in various print and online journals, including Watchung Review, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Ovunque Siamo, Peacock Journal, Boston Accent Lit, and Italian Americana. An excerpt from her novel-in-progress is forthcoming in Newtown Literary. Jaeger recently founded Maple Tiger Review, an online journal dedicated to publishing work written by teens and tweens. She holds an MFA in creative non-fiction, and MA’s in both history and education. When Jaeger isn’t reading or writing, she enjoys going hiking and taking road trips with her son. Her mother was born in Sorrento.
I am an author, journalist, and critic living in New York City. I have contributed features, reviews, essays, and opinion pieces to a wide range of print and digital publications. My ruling passions are culture and the arts (especially music, movies, and theater), politics, social science, social and political theory. I have written about all these topics, for such publications as The Nation, Film Comment, Newsday, Gay City News, The Advocate, Cineaste, In These Times, The Italian American Review and Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. I also am a contributor to the online publications PopMatters, The New York Journal of Books, Rootsworld, La Voce di New York and I-Italy. I am the author of An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), and a contributor to the Routledge History of the Italian Americans, Mafia Movies: A Reader (University of Toronto), and The Essential Sopranos Reader (University of Kentucky Press).
JENNIFER MARTELLI’S debut poetry collection, The UncannyValley, was published in 2016 by Big Table Publishing Company. She is also the author of After Bird from Grey Book Press. Her work has appeared in Thrush, [Pank], Glass Poetry Journal, Cleaver, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Jennifer Martelli has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a co-curator for The Mom Egg VOX Folio.Her collection of poetry, My Tarantella (Bordgihera Press, 2018), is now avaliable!
THEODORA D. PATRONA received her Ph.D. with Honors from the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2011. She also holds an MA in Translation from the University of Surrey, UK. She has numerous publications on Italian American and Greek American literature, film and television. She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American American Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2017)
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