Executive Editor
S.L. Wisenberg was nonfiction editor of ACM from 1997 to 2010. She is the author of a fiction collection, The Sweetheart Is In; an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions; and a nonfiction chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She is ACM nonfiction editor and also edits ACM prose. She’s received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a Pushcart Prize. She is a freelance editor and writing coach. She is a native Texan. She has recent work in Tikkun, Bellevue Literary Review, the Rupture, and Narrative. Her essay collection The Wandering Womb won the Juniper Prize for nonfiction from the University of Massachusetts Pres and was on the shortlist for the Chicago Review of Books‘ best nonfiction book. Her chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, will be reprinted in a fifteenth anniversary edition Oct. 22, 2024.
Managing Editor and Associate Managing Editor—
Interviews Editor
Erik Noonan is the author of the poetry collections Stances and Haiku d’Etat, and assistant dean at the San Francisco Film School. His writing appears in the anthology Cross Strokes.
Assistant Editor
Michael Dean is a Chicago-based poet. They have work published or forthcoming in Hooligan Magazine and Poetry East.
Fiction Editor & Readers
Tamara Matthews is fiction editor as well as IT wrangler. She is a Chicago-based writer who has been published in New Ohio Review, Story Club Magazine, and the Rumpus, where she ran a column called “This Week in Essays.”
Reader Tatiana Yoon was born in Russia and now lives in the USA. She has been published in Russian news media, as well as in literary, art, and food magazines. Her works in English have appeared in the Evocations Review and Mother Muse magazine.
Leyla Guirand is a fiction enthusiast. She lives in New York.
Nimra Chohan is a candidate in Northwestern’s MFA in Prose & Poetry. A native of Queens, she lives in Chicago.
Grace Tsichlis moved from Texas to Chicago. She’s currently a creative writing and publishing MFA student at DePaul University. She has stories published in They Call Us and Sad Goose Cooperative. She’s the editor of The Orange Couch, the DePaul University Writing Center’s online literary journal
Translations Editor
Neil Blackadder translates drama and prose from German and French. His translations of plays by Lukas Bärfuss, Ewald Palmetshofer, Rebekka Kricheldorf, and Mishka Lavigne have been produced in London, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere, and many others have been published, and presented in staged readings. His translations of prose have appeared in journals including Two Lines, Tupelo Quarterly, and Chelsea. Neil was awarded a 2022 NEA Translation Grant, and has previously received fellowships from PEN and the Howard Foundation, and held residencies at the Banff Centre and Art Omi. Neil retired in 2019 from a 25-year career teaching theatre at Knox College and Duke University. He is active in ALTA and the Third Coast Translators Collective, and co-founded TinT, the Theatre in Translation network. In Spring 2023, Neil was the Translator in Residence at Princeton University.
Poetry Editors
Our poetry editor is Alex Wells Shapiro (he/him), a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Frontier Poetry and is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His debut poetry collection Insect Architecture was published in 2022 by Unbound Edition Press. He also was a fiction reader for ACM.
Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nun) Onumonu is a poet and licensed paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Southeast Side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her South Side citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017 she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine, South Side Weekly, and the Chicago Reader. Her “Darker Girl Manifesto” broadside was exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in 2022 and in April 2022 she was commissioned by the environmental justice organization NRDC for National Poetry Month 2022.
Monica Prince will be a guest editor sometime in the future.
Nonfiction Group
Lee Reilly is the author of two nonfiction books. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, focusing on the power of things (Hunger Mountain, Florida Review) and that perennial favorite, marriage and family (SmokeLong Quarterly, London Independent Story Prize, Quarter After Eight). Despite critical acclaim, she has abandoned her extensive work on tofu (Vegetarian Times). She’s the founder of Shannaghe, a residency in Maine.
Caitlin Garvey is a writer and English lecturer in Illinois. Her writing has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Post Road, Big Truths, The Tishman Review, Apeiron Review, and others. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Northwestern University. Her nonfiction book, The Mourning Report, was published by Homebound Publications.
Review Editor
Will Russo is the editor for poetry and prose reviews. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Dreamsoak and Glass Manifesto, winner of the 2023 Robert Campbell Chapbook Award from Anhinga Press. Born and raised in New York City, he is now based in Chicago, where he received his MFA from SAIC.
Audio/Visual Editor
Ian Eric Wojcikiewicz is a member of The Bum Sophisticate, working and writing out of Chicago. He is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Literary Variety Show.
Digital Editor
Dan Zamarelli is a freelance copywriter and essayist based in Chicago. He previously served as ACM‘s social media intern and editor of the now defunct The Loop section. His nonfiction has appeared in several publications and will undoubtedly feature in many others.
Art Editor
Hanna (Dodd) Ferguson is a writer and artist from the Quad Cities, IL, who lives and works in Chicago. She is a graduate of Luther College, where she studied English, linguistics, and art history. Her writing can be found in Cutleaf Journal.
Interns
Sarah Weiner, Emma Ashley, Leah Schroeder, Larissa Goadler
Past Interns
Andy Brinkis, Tony Miller, Evan Richards, Angel Valdes, Miranda Malinowski, Maxwell Rowe-Sutton, Ryan Ziencina, Emily Johnson, Anne Duncan, Matthew Kilbane, Julia Shanker, Lillian Richardson, Olivia Griffin, Isabelle Wade, Olivia Shay, Nancy Gorman
Staff Emeriti
Matt Wood served as digital editor and nonfiction editor from Aug. 2017 through May 2018 and created the ACM online version you see before you.
Lee Webster, Barry Silesky, Sharon Solwitz, Tom Moss, Sara Skolnik (b. 1949, d. 2017), Simone Muench, Jacob Knabb, Caroline Eick, Matt Rowan, Betty Scott, Rose Pacult, Dan Gonzalez, Patrick Parks, Samuel Schwindt, Tara Betts, John Moss, Kurt Heintz, Ben Richman, Avani Kalra, Nicole Von Drasek (managing editor extraordinaire), Eliza Nichols, Vincent Francone, Azize Altay Harvey, Natalie Haney Tilghman, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Katana Smith, Christine Byrne, Jennifer C. Nash, Erica Jasmin Dixon, Nic Rueth, Sasha Weiss
Board of Directors
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Gina DiPonio, Joanna Brown
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