Tryst Editors

Joan McCormick, Poetry Editor

Western Australia. Mother, grandmother, wife and bookkeeper. A devoted gardener, Joan mothers the soil to bring forth vegetables and flowers. She fixes houses and old furniture because nothing lasts unless it is tended and loved. As a poet and editor, she nurtures other poets because no one lasts unless they are loved and tended.

Favorite Books/Authors: EON and ETERNITY (by Greg Bear); David Eddings, Katherine Kerr, Jennifer Fallon, Christopher Paolin, Stephen Donaldson.

Dorothy Doyle Mienko, Assistant Poetry Editor

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dorothy loves snow and pockets the small change of stars. She loves the silence of long-dark nights. Her world is collections of poetry books. And in her heart's deepest reaches, Pablo Neruda. She buys everything of his she can find; loves fiercely his "100 Love Sonnets" his "Song of Despair."

Gail Otteson, Assistant Poetry Editor

Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Gail recently retired from many years of teaching elementary students to appreciate all the arts. She is a voracious reader of all genres of literature.

Favorite Books: OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY; NINE HORSES (Billy Collins); THE WINTER ROAD (Louis Jenkins); WHY STILL DANCE (Phebe Hanson); WHAT IS THE WHAT (Dave Eggers); THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA; WAKING (Matthew Sanford); BEFORE YOU KNOW KINDNESS (Chris Bohjaian); CHRONIC CITY (Jonathan Lethem)

Diane Wiley, Fiction Editor

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lover of poems, short stories, novels, spoken word, Wiley makes her living helping others tell their true stories in the legal system. But Tryst is a lot more fun. Favorite Books: MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR; MIDDLESEX; 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE; WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME; OUR POST-SOVIET HISTORY UNFOLDS; TO BE OF USE and BEAUTY; HOUSE OF SPIRITS; THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER; HIS DARK MATERIALS (trilogy) by Philip Pullman...and any good trashy mystery novels.

Mia, Editor

Recent publications: Ocho 27 and Quiet Mountain Essays. Favorite Books: TRYST (Elswyth Thane); TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER; A TALE OF TWO CITIES; A MAN IN FULL; ALL THE NAMES; INFINITE JEST; NEVER LET ME GO; THE ROAD; NAKED (David Sedaris); REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST; FAITHFUL RUSLAN (Georgii Vladimov); THE ICE PEOPLE (René Barjavel); CHRONICLES OF NARNIA; BEOWULF; THE FAR ARENA (Richard Sapir); RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE; DANCER FROM THE DANCE and THE BEAUTY OF MEN (Andrew Holleran); MECCA and STEAMING (Donald Rawley); MIDNIGHT SALVAGE (Adrienne Rich); POEMA DEL CANTE JONDO (Lorca).

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