EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Mary Francois Rockcastle
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MANAGING EDITOR OF
PRODUCTION & MARKETING
Meghan Maloney-Vinz
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Mary François Rockcastle is the author of the novel, Rainy Lake (Graywolf Press), which was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award and selected as one of the New York Public Library's 1996 Books of the Teen Age. An essay "Mixed Use in the City" was published in Toward the Livable City by Milkweed Editions (2004). > More

Patricia Kirkpatrick has published a poetry book, Century's Road (Holy Cow! Press), two letterpress chapbooks, Orioles and Learning to Read, and books for young readers, including Plowie: A Story from the Prairie (Harcourt), illustrated by her sister, artist Joey Kirkpatrick. > More

Sheila O'Connor received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, Iowa Writers Workshop. Her novel, Where No Gods Came won the 2004 Minnesota Book Award as well as the Michigan Award for Literary Fiction. It was also chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. > More

Barrie Jean Borich is the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review and the author of My Lesbian Husband, winner of an American Library Association GLBT Nonfiction Book Award. Her first memoir, Restoring the Color of Roses, is set in the Calumet Region of Chicago, she is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship > More

Meghan Maloney-Vinz worked as the Design Coordinator with the Hamline University Graduate School of Liberal Studies Student literary magazine rock, paper, scissors (a journal she helped create) for two years before coming on board with Water~Stone Review. As a student in the MFA program at Hamline, she served on the poetry editorial board for two issues including 2007 when she was Poetry Assistant Editor. > More