300 Reviews

Alphabetical by last name:

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Brian Ballantine is a Masters of Divinity student at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He’s been brewing beer for five years and enjoys good conversations, music, books, and of course, beer.

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Adrienne Celt’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in Esquire online, Carve Magazine, The Southeast Review, Gargoyle, and Yew. She also draws a weekly webcomic, updated every Wednesday at loveamongthelampreys.com. And, as if it needed saying, she listens to more Tom Waits than is probably healthy.

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Alex Chambers, whose poems and essays are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, and Puerto del Sol, is on the verge of moving to Bloomington, Indiana and farming there.

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Brooke Champagne was raised in New Orleans yet cannot consider herself a Southerner.  She lives and teaches among Southerners at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

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Lauren Choplin is from New Jersey and is a graduate student in English at Rugters New Brunswick.

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Dustin L. Collins, an Ohio-based film critic and occasional video artist, spends so much time attempting to map out the intersections and missed connections between gender, sexuality, and the movies that it becomes a challenge to think about other things. A devotee of Busby Berkeley, Judith Butler, and Betty Boop, Dustin blogs at okaywithme.com.

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Kimberley Coughlin is a freelance writer living in Queens who enjoys pop culture minutiae, telling people how little she paid for her designer shoes, judging, and wine.

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S. J. Culver is a writer with a tenuous web presence here.

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Amy Dayton-Wood lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is currently making a knit cap.

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DeDe DiDonato is simultaneously from the 50s, 80s, and from the 50s and 80s visions of the future.

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Rob Dixon lives in Tuscaloosa, AL, where he teaches college English, coaches flag football for 5-6 yr. olds, and atones for the other stuff he does.

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Nik De Dominic lives in New Orleans, where he takes pictures of signs . He is an editor of The Offending Adam.

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Sheena K. Fallon is a writer and editor in Washington, DC.  Say hello or quietly judge her at sheenakfallon.com or @sheenakfallon.

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Tom Farrington is a writer and critic living in Edinburgh, Scotland, working eternally on his Ph.D. He has recent reviews dotted about http://www.edfestmag.co.uk/

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Mike Fitzgerald is a Campus Minister and Theology teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school. He graduated with an M.A. from Boston College in Pastoral Ministry.

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Cameron Foster lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.  To meet him you’d probably think he was a Capricorn but he is actually a Gemini.

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Barry Grass is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at The University of Alabama. His recent work appears/is forthcoming in Junk, Qarrtsiluni, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and For Every Year. In light of the name change of his hometown Kansas City Wizards MLS team to Sporting Kansas City, he is considering changing his own name to Writing Barry Grass.

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Jennifer Gravley has spent the last several months keeping track of developments regarding the university press she works at by reading the newspaper, online news releases, and Facebook comments. In what is left of her free time, she reads other things, writes, and watches low-quality television programs.

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Andy Guess is a recovering journalist and a doctoral student in political science at Columbia University. He spent most of last year researching, writing, and hibernating in Romania.

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Anastasia Hager is a writer and visual artist living in Madison, WI.

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Jeremy Allan Hawkins is a critic & poet with work appearing or forthcoming in Harvard Review, Ninth Letter, RealPoetik, Salamander, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tin House, Super Arrow,  PANK, Pleiades, Zoland Poetry,  & Cinespect. He is the founding editor of 300 Reviews.

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Kori Hensell was conceived and begotten from a black hole in south Alabama, yet will never go to outer space. She often cries for hours about this.

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Aubrey Hirsch is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She lives online at www.aubreyhirsch.com. You can find her work in journals like PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, Third Coast and Hobart.

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B.J. Hollars is an instructor at the University of Alabama where he also received his MFA in 2010.  He’s served as nonfiction editor and assistant fiction editor for Black Warrior Review and currently edits for Versal.  He has work published or forthcoming inAmerican Short Fiction, Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, & Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others.

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MC Hyland’s most recent chapbooks are Every Night in Magic City (H_NGM_N, 2010) and Residential As In (Blue Hour Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming  in Cannibal, LIT, Colorado Review, H_NGM_N, Fourteen Hills, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis, where she works at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab reading series.

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Trey Irby is a Tuscaloosa resident presently attending the University of Alabama.

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Rebecca King lives in Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA from Chatham University. She founded Origami Zoo Press and she’s been editing and designing books ever since. Sometimes she writes stories and they get published. See proof at >kill author and decomP magazinE.

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Casimer Kowalski lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Erin Lyndal Martin is a poet, music journalist, and fiction writer in Madison, WI.  She is the associate fiction editor for H_ngm_n, and her work has recently appeared in Guernica, InDigest, and The Offending Adam.

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Sam Martone attends Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where instead of doing his homework, he spends hours scrolling through the Knox Like A Little page, searching for any sign that someone has seen him. His hair is brown.

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J. Kirk Maynard is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. His poems and reviews can be found in Arch, Blueline, and White Whale Review.

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Jason McCall is the author of Silver (Main Street Rag). He is from the great state of Alabama, where he currently teaches English and Literature at the University of Alabama. His poetry has been or will be featured in Diverse Voices Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Country Dog Review, Cimarron Review, New Letters, Mythic Delirium, Fickle Muses, and other journals.

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Chris Mink is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  He currently lives in Austin, Texas where he writes poetry and complains about Texans.  He will soon be moving to Tallahassee, Florida to pursue an MFA at Florida State, and complain about Texans.

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“Hungry, ill-clothed, servants treat A.G. Moore with contempt.” — Li Po

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Brian D. Morrison teaches English at the University of Alabama. His writing can be found elsewhere at Cider Press Review, Forteen Hills, and Margie, among others. He loves his own cat very much and wishes no harm to any other.

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Robin Lee Mozer loves the Red Sox, tiramisu, and the number 12. She hates LeSueur peas, motorcycles that sound like weed whackers, and men with insincere hair. She sometimes writes Necessary Letters and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Van Newell has worked on the Jon and Kate Plus 8 reality television program and the 18 and Counting reality television program. He has also shaken William H. Macy’s hand.

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Alissa Nutting is a Schaeffer Fellow in fiction at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Starcherone Books released her debut story collection, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, in 2010.

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Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and currently lives in Alabama.  New work can be found in The Collagist, Ninth Letter, 42opus, and others.

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Daniela Olszewska is the author of seven chapbooks, including Citizen Jane Trains For Many Different Kinds of Careers (horse less press) and halfsteps + cloudfang (plumberries press).  She is in the MFA program at The University of Alabama.

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Kevin O’Rourke lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a writer and editor. His work has appeared in a number of journals, most recently Word for / Word and Midway Journal.

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Wilson Peden grew up in the Carolinas. Now he’s a writer and editor in Washington, DC. He picked up an MFA from the University of Minnesota along the way.

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Carl Peterson lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he works on the IMC project, brews beer, and teaches.

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Colin Rafferty lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife (the poet Elizabeth Wade).  He lives a few blocks away from a battlefield and tries to figure out how to be interested in the Civil War without being one those guys who’s interested in the Civil War.  Other essays:  Fourth Genre, Cream City Review, DIAGRAM.

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Wendy Rawlings is a writer and professor from Long Island who has lived in Alabama for more than a decade. She volunteers for the Humane Society of West Alabama and loves all dogs.

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Jennifer Gandel Ridgeway has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, where she served as poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. She lives in Trento, Italy.

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Laurence Ross attended a North East Catholic prep school for boys.

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Jen Schalliol wrote a break-up poem that got nominated for a Pushcart.  She lives and works in Chicago, minding babies and avoiding gluten.  She is piecing together a book that her grandmother asked her to write, and she’s trying to remember to update www.jenniferschalliol.com.

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Stephen Schneider wishes he could make a living tending bar or driving stock cars.  Until then, he’ll continue teaching writing and rhetoric in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Chad Simpson has spent most of his life in the Midwest. He is the author of Phantoms, a chapbook published in April by Origami Zoo Press. New work is forthcoming in Orion Magazine, matchbook, Wigleaf, and Crab Orchard Review.

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Olivia Snider is a 21-year-old graduate student pursuing her Master’s in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She focuses primarily on poetry and creative non-fiction, though she also writes album reviews for the webzine StereoSubversion. She is enamored of travel, making jewelry, and hula hooping. As a starving graduate student, she’d welcome any job offers.

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Beth Staples received her MFA in fiction writing in 2007 from Arizona State University, where she now works at The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing as Managing Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. She also teaches fiction writing at ASU and Mesa Community College. Her work has appeared in The Portland Review and Phoebe. The Creepers are preparing for a new season of intensive league play.

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Alex Starace is currently at work on a novel. Like all good Americans, he likes basketball, sleeping and chocolate cake.

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Lucas Southworth believes the human race will never perfect the flying car.  He is a current editor of 300 Reviews. He does not update his personal blog, ever.

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Jim Toweill lives in Houston, Tejas where he attempts to combine graduate studies at Rice University with radical agitation.

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Elizabeth Wade has new work forthcoming from Booth, DIAGRAM, Packingtown Review, Cave Wall, and others.

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Casie Wexler lives in South Jersey. Yes, there is difference. She “teaches” high school students the glories of reading, writing, and speaking (also known as English). Yes, she has eyes in the back of her head. When not grading teenage poetry and prose, she likes to write about soup at http://slurpsoup.tumblr.com/

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Patti White is the author of two collections of poetry, Tackle Box and Yellow Jackets, both from Anhinga Press.  She teaches creative writing at The University of Alabama.

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Ilona Williamson is a Brooklyn resident and overworked public school counselor. She dedicates half her free time to photography (www.ilonawilliamson.com) and the other half to taking science classes and plotting her eventual escape from the NYC Dep’t of Ed.

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Joseph P. Wood is the author of two books of poetry–Fold of the Map (forthcoming Salmon Poetry) and I & We (CW Books)–and five chapbooks. His poems have appeared recently in BOMB, Boston Review, diode, Hotel Amerika, Hunger Mountain, Verse, among others and recent reviews and essays can be found Open Letters, Rain Taxi, and Gently Read Literature. He is part of the Slash Pine Projects team housed at The University of Alabama, where he teaches.