Literary Mama

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce this month’s featured writing prompt Selected Short. Each month we will choose one submission to appear as a short on our blog. Check out our section for more information on how to be considered for future Selected Shorts. In March’s prompt, we asked readers “What do you imagine your […]

Elrena Evans, LM’s Marketing and Publicity Manager, holds an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, and together with Senior Editor Caroline Grant is co-editor of Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She writes the column Me and My House for Literary Mama, and her writing has also appeared […]

LM Fiction Co-editor Suzanne Kamata was a featured speaker at the Being An Author Broad career seminar in Tokyo. During the event, which was sponsored by the Tokyo-based magazine Being A Broad, Kamata, author of Losing Kei and editor of Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs. Author, columnist […]

We’d like to introduce LM’s new E-Zine Editor, Marie Walden. Marie lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband and six children. After a number of years as a stay-at-home mom and community volunteer, she returned to the workforce as a CPA and found that putting on panty hose and pumps was infinitely less enjoyable […]

Jenny Hobson is Literary Mama’s new Profiles Copyeditor. Jenny lives, blogs, knits, and does GIS in an Ohio River town in West Virginia. She lives with her husband and preschooler daughter. Her blog can be found at Hobson’s Choice.

Okay, I’ve dropped the ball and haven’t featured any editors in too long…and now we have some new additions to our crew. Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, Columns Editor, is a poet and essayist who lives in Fairbanks, Alaska with her husband and two daughters. Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines, including Ice Floe, The […]

Got any newsletter or marketing experience? Literary Mama is seeking an e-zine editor! Work entails formatting and copy editing the weekly newsletter on a strict deadline, as well as research and reporting (not on deadline) about what kinds of blurbs generate the most click-throughs, what kind of content our readers are most hungry for, and […]

Job description: Update the content of the Web site on a weekly schedule, using Moveable Type, FTP, and HTML. Maintain the integrity of the site: update templates and style sheets, fix broken links and outdated code, add new departments or sections as the site grows, and filter and report C Panel statistics. Work closely with […]

Maria Scala, one of LM’s Columns Editors, is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Descant, PoetryReviews.ca, mamazine, Literary Mama, Between O and V, among others. You can find Maria blogging on August Avenue.

In continuation of the Who We Are section, this week we are highlighting LM’s Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, is a Spanish-American poet and writer. Her poetry has appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cicada and Soleado, and her book reviews regularly appear in RainbowKids Magazine. Violeta posts Bluestocking columns and Bookshelf recommendations on her […]

To continue our Who We Are section, the next on the list is Caroline Grant, Literary Reflections Editor, who writes the column Mama at the Movies for Literary Mama. She is also co-editor, with Elrena Evans, of the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She holds a […]