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.

David Lenson, Editor

David Lenson, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of two volumes of poetry, two books on theory of tragedy, and the phenomenological study On Drugs. He was editor and later publisher of Panache magazine and Panache Books. He has contributed poems and essays to many magazines, including Ploughshares, Turnrow, Southern Poetry Review, Willow Springs, Green House, Assembling, Lynx, Greenfield Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ellen Watson, Editor, Poetry and Translation Editor

Poet and translator Ellen Doré Watson's most recent collection, Ladder Music, won the New York/ New England Award from Alice James Books. Her 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 Adelia 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.

Aaron Hellem, Managing Editor

Aaron Hellem lives with his wife in Leverett, Massachusetts and attends the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His short stories have recently appeared in Fourth River, Potomac Review, Ellipsis, Quay Journal, Menda City Review, 13th Warrior, Lake Effect, Oklahoma Review, Confluence and Beloit Fiction Journal; also, works of his are forthcoming in Crate, Karamu, Roger and Steel City 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.

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.

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.

Thomas Dumm, Non-Fiction Editor

Thomas L. Dumm is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. His most recent book, Loneliness As a Way of Life, will be published this year by Harvard University Press.

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.

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.