Staff

Dr. Anna Faktorovich is the Founder, Director, Designer and Editor-in-Chief of the Anaphora Literary Press, which has published over 50 titles, and is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Faktorovich has over three years of full-time English college teaching experience. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism and an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Her Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson critical book has been published with McFarland in February, 2013. Her new book, Formulaic Writing within Genres, is under contract with McFarland for completion in August, 2013. She published two poetry collections Improvisational Arguments (Fomite Press, 2011) and Battle for Athens (Anaphora, 2012). She illustrated, designed and wrote the poetry for an illustrated children’s book (4+) The Sloths and I (Anaphora, 2013). She also published three editions of the Book Production Guide, which gives advice on editing, design and marketing for writers and publishers. She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual and peer-reviewed Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009; it is available on EBSCO, ProQuest and in print. She has also presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography and the Brown University Military Collection fellowships.

Spring 2013 Interns:

Catherine W. Griffin, Columbia University School of Journalism, MS alumnus

Chelsey Gruetzmacher, De Paul University, MA student

Monique Delene Sanchiz, Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua, junior

Ekta Naik, University of Vermont, alumnus

Reina Glenn, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), senior

Samantha Oppenheimer, University of Kansas, senior

Jamie Monaco, Adelphi University, alumnus

Mattie Koerner, St. Olaf College, senior

Sarah Brunstad, Fordham University, MA student

Brianna St. John, College of Saint Rose, alumnus

Katharine Wilson, Biola University, alumnus

Meredith Boe, DePaul University, MA student

Summer 2013 Interns:

Shelby Catalano, University of Tampa, alumnus

Cherylann Pasha, College of the Holy Cross, junior

Hannah Vose, University of Rochester, sophmore

Cameron Barney, Boston University, sophmore

Kristin Dangler, Fairfield University, junior

Melissa Lesh, Boston University, sophmore

Mackenzie Deary, Georgetown University, junior

Drew Weitman, Brown University, sophmore

Kevin Marker, Florida State University, College of Law, JD alumnus

Brianna Duff, Elon University, sophomore

Past Interns:

Spring 2012:

Katherine Weikel, Rutgers, alumnus

Todd Glass, University of Illinois, alumnus

Jessica Braud, Saint Louis University, alumnus

Emily E. Crawford-Margison, Wright State University, alumnus

Meredith Carroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, alumnus

Emily Wenzl, University of Northern Colorado, alumnus

Dawn Carroll, Western Washington University, senior

Summer 2012:

Emily Eckart, Harvard University, senior

Elizabeth DeBusk, College of William and Mary, junior

Zoey DiMauro, College of William and Mary, sophmore

Kelly Meany, Rutgers University, junior

Katherine Wertz, Missouri State University, Springfield, MA graduate student

Lindsey Julia Simon, University of Chicago, freshman

Haley Hepburn, Appalachian State University, junior

Kristen O’Brien, Marist College, sophmore

Charlotte Roth, Franklin and Marshall College, sophmore

Alec Johnsson, Haverford College, freshman

Jonathan Joseph Martino, University of San Francisco, M.F.A. English student

Richard A. Johnson, University of Kent, senior

Josh Newman, SUNY Buffalo, MA graduate student

Alicia Nichols, Redlands University, junior

Charles Schultz, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art

Fall 2012:

Jacquelyn Heim, Cornell University, alumnus

Eliza Rae Lamson, Santa Clara University, senior

Samantha Munoz, Eastern Connecticut State University, alumnus

Jesseca Moore, University of Gloucestershire, alumnus

Amber Sumpter, Saint John’s University, freshman

Laura Knight, City University of Seattle, alumnus

Brittany Rubio, Binghamton University, alumnus

Theresa Rimel, University of Denver, alumnus

Phillip Yakushev, New York University, junior

Elise Wallace, Wake Forest University, alumnus

Stephanie Baltis, State University of New York College at Oneonta, alumnus

Stephanie Felice, College of William and Mary, senior

Pennsylvania Literary Journal’s Contributors:

Editorial Board

Dr. Nicholas Birns, New School University, Antipodes (Editor)

Dr. Alexander H. Pitofsky, Appalachian State University, The Burney Journal (Editor)

Dr. Robert Hauptman, Journal of Information Ethics (Editor)

Dr. Richard Kopley, Penn State DuBois, Resources for American Literary Study (Editor)

Commercial Advisor

Davis Bunn, University of Oxford, Creative Writing Tutor; Best-Selling Novelist (Gold of Kings, The Great Divide, All Through the Night)

Note: We are always looking for assistant editors, board members and interns.

Credit for Model in the Logo: Lindsey Harrington (Tucson, AZ)