Potomac Review supports the Black Lives Matter Movement. The journal recognizes the unfair treatment of Black people in America and seeks to amplify the voices of those experiencing these injustices. Consider reading Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis, or…
The former environmental lawyer turned children’s writer, illustrator, poet, novelist, and memoirist, Sylvia Liu is a busy person (to say the least). In 2013, she won the New Voices Award for her book, A Morning with Grandpa. Later this year,…
Poet, Sue Hyon Bae, is the former International Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work has appeared in Four Chambers Press, Minetta Review, Apple Valley Review, Please Hold Magazine, and elsewhere. Her poem “Homeless Ghosts” appeared in Potomac Review #60 in spring 2017. Additionally, her manuscript, a…
Ben Rosenthal is a writer living in New York. He has had residencies at The MacDowell Colony and at Ucross, and will graduate from Columbia University this February with an MFA in Fiction. His story “A Friend of the Zoo” appeared in Potomac Review #62 in spring…
Ashley Farmer is the author of The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), The Famacist (Jellyfish Highway Press, 2015), Beside Myself (PANK/Tiny Hardcore Press, 2014), and the chapbook Farm Town (Rust Belt Bindery, 2012). A former editor for publications like Atomica Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, and others, she currently…
Orman Day’s prose and poetry have been published by such journals as Creative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, Third Coast, SLAB, William and Mary Review, Los Angeles Review, and Portland Review. His essay “Memories of a Time and Place” appeared in Potomac Review #60 in spring 2017. Former Potomac Review intern, Yemaya Alleyne, chatted with Day…
Nora Bonner is a fiction writer and writing instructor from Detroit, Michigan. Currently, she lives in Atlanta and is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Georgia State. You can find her story, “As Though She Could Actually…
Chad Schuster lives near Seattle with his wife and two children. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Washington and wrote for several newspapers before leaving the news business in 2008. He works for a communications firm in…
Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a fiction writer and musician. Her first novel, To Love A Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and was released May 2017 by Blue Moon Publishers (Toronto,…
Marian Crotty’s first book, What Counts as Love, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals such as the Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. Her personal essays have…