Delmarva Review Editorial Board

Wilson Wyatt Jr., Chairman, is one of the founders of The Delmarva Review and is past President of the Eastern Shore Writers Association. He is active in the regional writers’ community, includingthe Talbot County Arts Council and the Board of The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, MD. Starting his writing career as a reporter for The Courier-Journal newspaper, in Kentucky, he was the chief communications officer for three international corporations. In addition to professional writing, he is author of the 2011 photography book Yosemite – Catching the Light.

JehanneDubrow, Editor,is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently Stateside. In 2012, Northwestern University Press will publish




her fourth book, Red Army Red.  Her work has appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, The New Republic, Gulf Coast, and Ploughshares.  She is the Interim Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an assistant professor in literature and creative writing at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.She was senior poetry reader for Prairie Schooner and book series coordinator for the University of Nebraska Press Prairie Schooner Book Prize.

Mala Burt, Managing Editor, has had her fiction published by Doubleday and her non-fiction by Bruner/Mazel.  Her e-book, Big Skye Ranch, won awards at the London and Paris Book Festivals and the 2010 National Idie Excellence Award for E-Book Fiction. The Santa Diaries: Memories of a Small-Town Christmas, a compilation of Eastern Shore Christmas memories and photos, written in conjunction with designer Laura Ambler, was published in 2011. Ms. Burt lives in St. Michaels, MD.

Poetry Editors
John Elsberg, is a widely published poet. His work includes 178books and chapbooks of poetry, and he is the long-time editor of Bogg: A Journal of Contemporary Writing.  Cervena Barva Press will be publishing his next collection in 2012. 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.

Amanda Newell is 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 participant in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College.

Fiction Editors
Margot Miller, Ph.D. is a translator and writer who has published poetry, short fiction, and academic work, and has served as adjunct professor of French at Johns Hopkins University. 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.

Harold O. Wilson lives in Chester, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. After
studying at Wake Forest University and Andover Newton Theological School, Mr. Wilson worked in the community development field at local, national and international levels. During that period he wrote on affordable housing and finance. He 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

Creative Nonfiction Editor
George R. Merrill is 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.

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.