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. Most recently she has published two novels using the pen name, Annie Rogers. Ms. Burt lives in St. Michaels, MD.
Kate Blackwell - Ms. Blackwell’s stories have appeared in numerous literary journals.
Her collection of short stories, You Won't Remember This, was published in 2007 by
Southern Methodist University Press. She has taught at The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, MD, and other venues. She has been a fellow at the McDowell Writers’ Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives in Neavitt, MD and Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
Melanie Rigney - Melanie Rigney is the owner of Editor for You (www.editorforyou.com), a publishing consultancy. She has more than thirty years of comunications and publishing experience, including five years as editor of Writer's Digest magazine. Currently she writes inspirational nonfiction and fiction and is copyeditor for The Delmarva Review.
The Editorial Board expresses its appreciation to Laura Ambler, of Easton, Maryland, for format and design.
