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About the Editors
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Eclectica was founded in 1996 by Tom Dooley and Chris Lott, with Chris providing most of the inspiration and even more of the perspiration. Chris left the magazine in 1998, and after muddling along on his own for a while, Tom found valuable assistance in Julie King. Julie, one of the first Eclectica authors, signed on to help with poetry but soon became a full co-editor. Then Tom and Julie got married! Always a labor of love, Eclectica had become even more so. However, after six years of serving as the Poetry Editor and generally keeping Tom from making too much of a fool of himself, Julie needed time to meet other obligations and devote to her own writing. Fortunately in the meantime, a host of other volunteer editors had joined the Eclectica team, and with their help, the adventure continues.
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Tom Dooley taught middle and high school English for twelve years in Alaska, Arizona, and Wisconsin. A former wrestling coach, gas station attendant, forklift driver, bank teller, and many other things that add up to a total absence of career planning, Tom now has a Masters in Public Administration and has embarked on a career with the federal government. He serves as Eclectica's Managing Editor and Fiction Editor.
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Jennifer Finstrom is Eclectica's Poetry Editor. A former spotlight author, her poetry has appeared in Primavera, Poems and Plays, The Comstock Review, Mythic Delirium, Cider Press Review, and Tar River Poetry, among other publications. She was the third place winner in Atlanta Review's POETRY 2002. Originally from Wisconsin, Jennifer lives in Chicago, where she is writing an epic fantasy novel that should (finally) be completed early this year.
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Anne Leigh Parrish is Eclectica's Fiction Editor. Her debut short story collection, All The Roads That Lead
From Home, was published last year by Press 53 and won the 2012 Independent
Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for best short story fiction. More of her
work can be found in previous issues of Eclectica, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction,
The Pinch, PANK, Prime Number, and Clackamas Literary Review, among other
publications.
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David Ewald is Eclectica's Nonfiction Editor. A previous contributor, his work has also appeared in BULL: Men's Fiction, Denver Syntax, Spectrum, and The Chimaera, among other publications. His experimental novelette Markson's Pier (written with Stuart Ross) is forthcoming from Essays & Fictions.
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Past assistant and guest editors include Kevin McGowin, Tara Gilbert-Brever, Mitchell Metz, John Reinhard, Thom Ingram, Linera Lucas, Jessica Handle, Jodi L. Laughlin, Michael Spice, Pamela Gemin, Paul Sampson, Colleen Mondor, Elizabeth P. Glixman, Pamela Mackey, Tamara M. Brenno-Uribarri, and the aforementioned Julie King.
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