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Marjorie Tesser is the editor of Mom Egg Review. She is co-editor of the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems and Estamos Aquí: Poems of Migrant Farmworkers (Bowery Books) and the forthcoming Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering, and Travel (Demeter Press). She authored poetry chapbooks THE IMPORTANT THING IS (Firewheel Award Winner) and The Magic Feather; her poetry and fiction have appeared in several journals and anthologies. She has produced festivals of video poetry and poets theater, and has led poetry workshops, readings and panels at literary festivals, conferences, and educational institutions. https://www.facebook.com/mtpages

Mom Egg Review Poetry Editor

Jennifer Jean is the author of the poetry collection The Fool; her chapbooks include The Archivist and In the War. Her poetry and prose have been published in: Rattle, Waxwing, Drunken Boat, Tidal Basin Review, Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Solstice, Green Mountains Review, and more. Jennifer is Managing Editor of Talking Writing Magazine, Co-director of Morning Garden Artist Retreats, and she teaches Free2Write poetry workshops to sex-trafficking survivors. For more information visit: www.fishwifetales.com

MER Book Review Editor

Bunny Goodjohn, originally from the UK, is the Book Review Editor at Mom Egg Review and the author of two novels: Stickleback And Snow Globes (Permanent Press) and The Beginning Things (Underground Voices). Her poetry collection  Bone Song was published in 2015. She teaches at Randolph College in Virginia. www.bunnygoodjohn.com

MER VOX Gallery Editor  

Ana C. H. Silva lives in NYC and Olive, NY. Her poetry has been published in Podium, Mom Egg Review, the nth position, Snow Monkey, Anemone Sidecar, Chronogram, and Stepaway Magazine. She won the inaugural Rachel Wetzsteon Memorial Poetry Prize at the 92nd St. Y Unterberg Poetry Center.

MER VOX Editor-at-Large

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JP Howard is the author of SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), which was a 2016 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is the recipient of a 2016 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award and has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, Brooklyn Arts Council, VONA and Lambda Literary. JP curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. http://www.jp-howard.com

MER VOX Poetry Editor

Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Uncanny Valley and Apostrophe, both from Big Table Publishing. Her poetry has appeared in Up the Staircase Quarterly, Hermeneutic Chaos, Red Paint Hill Journal, and Vector Press. Her reviews and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Drunken Boat, and Gravel. She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. Martelli is an associate editor for The Compassion Project.

MER VOX Poetry Editor

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Cindy Veach received an MFA from the University of Oregon. Her poems has appeared in Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, The Journal, The North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Creek Review, Zone 3 and elsewhere. Her first collection, Gloved Against Blood, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. She manages fundraising programs for non-profit organizations and lives in Manchester, MA. 

MER Intern

Melissa Thomas lives in the UK with her 3 children. She is a writer, interdisciplinary artist and a service user advocate for maternity research. Weaving academia with a creative practice alongside her role as a mother, she combines self-directed study, art and activism with the everyday. Published in The Green Parent, Juno, AIMS Journal and The Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology she is currently an intern for Mom Egg Review alongside undertaking An Artists Residency in Motherhood between 2017 and 2020.

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Readers for Print Issue 2017