Our poetry editor for May and June is Yasmin Belkhyr. Yasmin is a writer and you might remember her work from issue 1. She was born in Morocco, grew up in NYC, and now writes poetry about honeydew and lightning in South Africa. You can find more of her work in PANK, Hobart, Word Riot, … Continue reading
Our poetry editor for January and February is Maisha Z. Johnson, a writer, healer, and troublemaker of Trinidadian descent. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University, and she studied creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has won competitions including Literary Death Match, The Lit Slam, and Portuguese Artists Colony, appeared in … Continue reading
Erin Sroka, Fiction Editor for November/December, is a writer living in Durham, North Carolina. Why work for The James Franco Review: I like the playfulness in the submission process, the conceit that you can take a break from being just another writer, sitting at a desk in sweatpants, damp with anxieties about not making it. Instead, you … Continue reading
The poetry editor for November and December, Rochelle Hurt, is the author of The Rusted City, published in the Marie Alexander Poetry Series at White Pine Press (2014). Her work has been included in Best New Poets 2013, and she has been awarded literary prizes from Crab Orchard Review, Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, and Poetry International. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published in … Continue reading
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