The Massachusetts Review Editorial Board
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 them at massrev@external.umass.edu. For more information on submission guidelines and journal policies, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Jules Chametzky, Editor EmeritusJules 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 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.
Katie Winger, Managing Editor
Katie Winger is currently completing her PMBA at UMASS, and has experience in art and production.
Deborah Gorlin, Poetry Editor
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.