The Massachusetts Review is edited by a highly talented and deeply loyal group of writers and teachers, centered in the Five Colleges area of Western Massachusetts, with offices at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. To contact individual editors, write to the editorial office (South College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003) or email massrev"AT"external.umass.edu. For more information on submission guidelines and journal policies, please visit FAQ.

Jules Chametzky, Editor Emeritus

Jules Chametzky is a professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the founder (in 1958) and co-editor of The Massachusetts Review. He is the author of From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cohen (1977) and Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Southern and Jewish Literature (1986), and co-editor, with Sidney Kaplan, of Black & White in American Culture: An Anthology from The Massachusetts Review, among other works. Among his awards and honors is the Melus Award for Lifetime Contributions to Ethnic Studies (1995) and a Chancellor's Medal (1990) for distinguished teaching and scholarship. He earned his B.A. from Brooklyn College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Jim Hicks, Editor

Jim Hicks is Director of the American Studies Diploma Program at Smith College, and a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 2004-2007, he served as U.S. Project Director of the Educational Partnership Program between Smith College and the University of Sarajevo. He has published work in the Centennial Review, the Minnesota Review, Postmodern Culture, Twentieth-Century Literature, as well as scholarly journals in Italy and Estonia. His current book project is entitled Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer.

Ellen Doré Watson, Editor, Poetry and Translation Editor

Poet and translator Ellen Doré Watson is the author of four books of poems, including This Sharpening, from Tupelo Press, which will publish her new collection, Dogged Hearts, in 2010. Her previous book Ladder Music, won the New York/New England Award from Alice James Books and individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Boulevard, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker. She also translates Brazilian literature, with a dozen books in print, including Adélia Prado's The Alphabet in the Park (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), which was supported by an NEA fellowship. Watson is the director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.

Michael Thurston, Nonfiction Editor

Michael Thurston teaches in the department of English and the program in American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars and of The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry: from Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott. His reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Yale Review, and his stories in Confrontation, Cupboard, Fringe, Knock, Southeast Review, and Quick Fiction. Thurston blogs at the Poetry Pill.

Edwin Gentzler, Translation Editor

Edwin Gentzler is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Translation and Identity in the Americas: New Directions in Translation Theory (Routledge, 2008) and Contemporary Translation Theories (Routledge, 1993; Multilingual Matters), which has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Bulgarian, Arabic, and Persian. He is the co-editor (with Maria Tymoczko) of the Translation and Power (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002). He serves as co-editor (with Susan Bassnett) of the Topics in Translation Series for Multilingual Matters and as an executive committee member of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).

Aaron Hellem, Managing Editor

Aaron Hellem lives with his wife in Leverett, Massachusetts and attended the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His short stories have recently appeared in Salamander, Menda City Review, Wisconsin Review, and Gettysburg Review.

Deborah Gorlin, Poetry Editor

Deborah Gorlin is co-director of the Writing Program at Hampshire College. Her book of poems, Bodily Course, won the l996 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She has published poems in Bomb, American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Green Mountains Review, HubBub, Seneca Review, the Forward, Best Spiritual Writing 2000, and Sycamore Review.

Pam Glaven, Art Director

Pam Glaven is a Designer for Impress, Inc. in Northampton, MA. She holds a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Massachusetts.

Christin Couture , Art Editor

Christin Couture has a BFA in painting from the University of Massachsetts, studied at the Brooklyn Museum School, and has received Fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony and Fondation Karolyi. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad, and was co- curator of the 2009 exhibition, "MR: 50 Years of Covers" at the University Gallery, UMass. She lives in the East Village, NYC, and Shelburne Falls, MA with her husband, sculptor William Hosie. Visit her website here.

Bob Erwin, Fiction Editor

Bob's a swell guy, and has done much in his life. . .so much you will just have to take our word for it.

Bob Dow, Fiction Editor

Bob's a swell guy, and has done much in his life. . .so much you will just have to take our word for it.

Corinne Demas, Fiction Editor

Corinne Demas is the author of two collections of short stories, two novels, a memoir, and numerous books for children. She is a professor of English at Mt. Holyoke College. Visit her Web site here.

John Vincent, Fiction Editor

John Emil Vincent is author of Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry (Palgrave; a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003) and of John Ashbery and You: His Later Poems (U Georgia; forthcoming). He presently teaches English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and is working on editing a volume of criticism on the poet Jack Spicer with Wesleyan University Press. His poems have appeared in many journals including Slope, American Literary Review, and Spork.