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KATHARINE BEUTNER, Editor-in-Chief
Katharine Beutner is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster, where she teaches creative writing and literature. From 2013-2017, she was an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Her first novel, Alcestis (Soho Press, 2010), received the 2011 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from the Publishing Triangle. Her next novel, Killingly, is forthcoming from Soho Crime in Summer 2023. Her writing has also appeared in triQuarterly, The Toast, the LA Review of Books, Public Books, Humanities, and other publications.
JAMIE A.M., Associate Fiction Editor & Managing Editor
Jamie A. M. is a writer based in Nashville, TN. Along with their work at The Dodge, they are Art Editor and Illustrator for Frogpond poetry journal. They have a background in community organizing and creative sensemaking processes, a lens that influences their personal projects. Their writing has been published in Frogpond and forthcoming in Grimoire Magazine.
LEAH KAMINSKI, Poetry Editor
Leah Claire Kaminski's poems have appeared or will soon appear in Bennington Review, Boston Review, Fence, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, and The Rumpus, and in chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Harbor Editions, and Milk & Cake Press. Educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Irvine, Leah lives in Chicago where, in addition to her work for The Dodge, she writes and edits educational graphic novels for kids and acts as an Associate Editor for Seneca Review.
MIRIAM BIRD GREENBERG, Associate Poetry Editor
Miriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano's Mouth (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and two chapbooks (All night in the new country [Sixteen Rivers, 2013] and Pact-Blood, Fevergrass [Ricochet Editions, 2013]). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Poetry Foundation, and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, they’ve taught at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore, led children's creative writing courses around the US, in Bangkok, and in Shanghai, and bicycled thousands of miles in the US, Canada, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, and China.
KAYLA CAYASSO, Fiction Editor
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Kayla is an Afro-Latina writer and poet. Her stories take uncomfortable glimpses into the way trauma warps us. Her poetry snapshots the slow healing and reformation that comes after. Kayla graduated summa cum laude from the Florida A&M University, with a Bachelor of Science in African American Studies. She currently resides in Orlando, Florida, and is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida. She has several pieces published in the 2021 issue of CaKe Literary Journal and placed in the 2021 FAMU Writing Contest, first in fiction and third in poetry.
DANIEL BOURNE, Founder, Translation Editor
Daniel Bourne received his B.A. from Indiana University in 1979 with a double major in Comparative Literature (receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate in Comparative Literature Award) and in History. In 1987 he received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University. He recently retired from teaching creative writing at The College of Wooster and previously taught at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Boys Who Go Aloft and The Household Gods. His poems and Polish translations have been published by Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Field, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, Graham House Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and many others.
LEONARD KRESS, Associate Translation Editor
Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, etc. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex and Walk Like Bo Diddley. Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems and his new verse translation of the Polish Romantic epic Pan Tadeusz (by Adam Mickiewicz) were both published in 2018. Craniotomy appeared in 2019. He teaches philosophy and religion at Owens College in Ohio.
SEAN IRONMAN, Nonfiction Editor
Sean Ironman’s nonfiction and comics have appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Redivider, Nashville Review, and Salt Hill, among others. He earned his MFA from the University of Central Florida and his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His writing has received support by the University of Missouri, Grubstreet, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Currently, he works at the CDC and is revising his first book, a memoir titled As Many Roast Bones As You Need.
JENNIFER FURNER, Associate Nonfiction Editor
Jennifer Furner has been published in Huffpost Personal, Belmont Story Review, Santa Fe Lit Review, and others. She has essays in the anthologies Art In the Time of Covid-19, A Teenager's Guide to Feminism, and forthcoming from Papeachu Press From the Waist Down. She has a memoir manuscript she has been tirelessly trying to publish and a couple more memoirs in the works. She works for the Kent District Library system and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband and daughter.
Past Editors
Sam Moe, Nonfiction Editor (2021-2022)
Shelby Kinney-Lang, Fiction Editor (2o20-2022)
Christopher Kang, Poetry Editor (2020-2022)
Dodge Editorial Assistants
Oriana Galvis Marin
Matthew Rohlman
Readers
Shelby Kinney-Lang
Megan Murphy
Jamie A.M.
Lillie Soukup
Past Dodge Editorial Assistants:
Cole Ward
Deena Williams
Julieanne Larick (social media manager)
Abi Geremew