Issue VI Masthead


Heather Bartlett
Editor, Poetry Editor

editor@hoxiegorgereview.com

Heather Bartlett is a poet, writer, and professor. Her debut poetry collection, Another Word for Hunger, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2023. Her poetry and prose can be found in print and online in journals such as the Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO Poetry, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She is the founding editor of Hoxie Gorge Review.


Amber Pierson
Associate Editor

Amber Pierson enjoys a good cup of coffee and spending time with her son. She has writing in In Parenthesis, The Elevation Review, Multiplicity and a few other literary journals. When she isn’t writing you can find her outside, adventuring and exploring nature with her son.


Kati Fargo Ahern
Fiction Editor

Kati Fargo Ahern is an associate professor of English in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric Program at SUNY Cortland. She has an MFA from George Mason University, and her short story was once nominated for Best New American Voices in 2005. Her academic research appears in journals such as Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, enculturation, and Journal of Basic Writing.


Adrienne Raw
Fiction Editor

Adrienne Raw is a writer and professor. When she’s not teaching classes on professional writing or studying community, identity, and consensus in fandom spaces, she’s lurking on Tumblr and reading fanfiction. She loves writing and reading original scifi, fantasy, and horror, and is always looking for new book recommendations.


David Franke
Nonfiction Editor

David Franke teaches courses at SUNY Cortland in rhetoric, creative nonfiction, and the historical development of writing. His current nonfiction project is a memoir that explores growing up in rural Iowa, the child of scientists who struggled with addiction, mental illness and unsanctioned sexuality. His next project is emerging as a “deep map” (after William Least-Heat Moon) which explores a single valley in Central New York.
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