EDITORS

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@external.umass.edu.

Jules Chametzky, Editor Emeritus

Jules Chametzky is a professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the founder (in 1959) 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 the former Director of the American Studies Diploma Program at Smith College, and Director of the Graduate Program 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 journals in Estonia, Italy, Romania, and Turkey.  His current book project is entitled Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer.

Ellen Doré Watson, Poetry and Translation Editor

Poet and translator Ellen Doré Watson is the author of four books of poems, including This Sharpening and her new collection, Dogged Hearts, both from Tupelo Press. 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, Fiction and 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 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.

John Emil Vincent, Archivist and Editor-at-Large

John Emil Vincent is the author of the recently published After Spicer, John Ashbery and You: His Later Books, and Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry, and associate editor of The Massachusetts Review. He writes poetry and criticism and lives in central Massachusetts.

Pam Glaven, Art Director

Pam is Art Director for Impress Inc. in Northampton, MA. She has designed many books & magazines including New England Monthly, FamilyFun, Disney, and Orion. Pam also makes art, and as a rule, wears as many hats as she can.

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.

Ata Moharreri, Managing Editor

Ata Moharreri lives in Western Massachusetts. Factory Hollow Press will publish his first collection of poems, called Wildwood Thrashers, in 2012.

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.

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).