Delmarva Review Editorial Board

Linda Fritz,  Editor – Ms. Fritz was an assistant editor for Sunset and the associate editor for Diversion magazine.  She also traveled extensively as a marketing researcher and management consultant before settling in Easton, MD.  Her interest in writing began as a teenager when she had a weekly column in a local newspaper and wrote for her high school literary magazine. 


Mala Burt, Managing Editor - Ms. Burt's fiction has been published by Doubleday and her non-fiction by Bruner/Mazel.  Her most recent fiction, an e-book titled Big Skye Ranch, won awards at the London and Paris Book Festivals and the 2010 National Idie Excellence Award for E-Book Fiction. Ms. Burt lives in St. Michaels, MD.

John Elsberg - John Elsberg is  a widely published poet, including 17 books and chapbooks of poetry. He is the long-time editor of Bogg: A Journal of Contemporary Writing.



Mr. Elsberg has hosted poetry and fiction open readings at  The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD., and currently in Greensboro, MD . He divides his time between Caroline County, MD and Virginia.

Margot Miller, Ph.D. - Dr. Miller served as adjunct professor of French at Johns Hopkins University.  A translator and writer who has published poetry, short fiction, and academic work, Dr. Miller also teaches French women writers (in translation) at the Academy of Lifelong Learning.  In 2007 she won the Queen Anne's County Arts Council Poetry Contest. Dr. Miller lives in Easton, MD.

George R. Merrill - An essayist, fine arts photographer, and editor, Mr. Merrill is also an Episcopal priest and pastoral counselor.  His essays are published frequently in regional magazines and newspapers. He has exhibited photography in Annapolis, New York, and at the Academy Arts Museum in Easton.  Mr. Merrill is the General Editor of Journeys, a magazine of essays. He lives in St. Michaels, MD.

Amanda Newell -  An English teacher at Gunston Day School in Centreville, MD, Ms. Newell has also taught at the University of Paris, Creteil, in France. Her poetry has appeared in recent or forthcoming issues of Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore and The Delmarva Review.  She is also a 2010 participant in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College.

Harold O. Wilson -  Hal Wilson lives in Chester, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. After
studying at Wake Forest University and Andover Newton Theological
School, Wilson worked in the community development field at local,
national and international levels. During that period he wrote on
affordable housing and finance. Wilson currently writes poetry and fiction. The Queen Anne’s County Arts Council has recognized his poetry with several awards and his
book The Night Blooming Cereus and Other Stories has achieved critical
success

Wilson Wyatt Jr., Chairman - Mr. Wyatt is one of the founders of The Delmarva Review as past President of the Eastern Shore Writers’ Association. He is active in the writers’ community on the Delmarva Peninsula, Coordinator of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference and a member of the Talbot County Arts Council. Starting his writing career as a reporter for The Courier-Journal newspaper, in Kentucky, he later became the senior communications officer for three international corporations. He has written for magazines, newspapers and public issue journals. He lives in Bozman, MD.

The Editorial Board expresses its appreciation to Laura Ambler, of Easton, Maryland, for format and design, and to Jeanne Pinault, of Cambridge, Maryland,  for copyediting.