Cindi Brown is a retired corporate marketing manager who spotlights creative people on her website (Cre8-space.org). Her books include the award-winning Poverty & Promise: One Volunteer’s Experience of Kenya, The giving Festival, and Understanding Grief: What You Can Expect After an Unexpected Loss. Cindi lives near her children and grandchildren in a small Georgia village […]
Deb Bowen
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Deb Bowen is co-author of A Good Friend for Bad Times: Helping Others through Grief (Augsburg Fortress Publishers). Her Crafting the Wheel of the Year (Search Press) with Claire Gelder is scheduled for release in autumn, 2025. Deb’s creative nonfiction, essays, and poetry are published in Salvation South and County Lines Literary Journal. Her current […]
John Williams
July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Dr. John Williams is currently a mentor in the Reinhardt University MFA Creative Writing program. His novel, End Times (Sartoris Literary Group, 2023) was named a finalist for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction and Williams was the Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel in 2002 for Lake Moon (Mercer UP). He has written and […]
Jess Burtis
June 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Jess Burtis is an avid reader and Southern Gothic enthusiast. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with an M.Phil in Literature, and she received her B.A. from Appalachian State University. Born and raised in the Carolinas, Jess is a fan of Southern writers, particularly Flannery O’Connor and Zora Neale Hurston. When Jess isn’t […]
Anna Schachner
June 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Anna Schachner is the author of the novel You and I and Someone Else and the forthcoming short story/flash collection The Lovely Woods Are Yours. She’s been a music journalist, jewelry designer/creator, college professor, and lit journal editor but is now a freelance writer/editor and book coach in Atlanta. She is at work on a […]
Southern Literary Review welcomes Hank Lazer as our new Poetry Review Editor!
May 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Hank Lazer has published thirty-six books of poetry, including most recently Abundant Life: New & Selected Poems (Chax Press), As We Vanish from Public View (7 Points Press), and field recordings of mind in morning (BlazeVOX, with 15 music-poetry tracks with Holland Hopson on banjo – available on YouTube). In 2025, Lavender Ink published What […]