Conclave

Savannah Thorne graduated from the University of Iowa where she studied in the Writers' Workshop. She also holds cum laude Master's degrees from De Paul University in Chicago and Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. Her poetry has appeared in over a dozen literary journals such as Potpourri, The Wisconsin Review, Rhino, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Lyric, Parabola, The Iowa Rag, and The Atlanta Review. She also won a runner-up prize for The Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize contest. Most recently, her poems appeared in Scholars and Rogues, Handful of Dust, Meadowland, and Extracts.  She was delighted to be published in Conclave's pages in 2008 and is excited for the new opportunities of being managing editor.

 

Jarucia is pleased to have been serving on Conclave's editorial staff since 2008. Her personal, professional, and academic experiences as a writer, reviewer, avid reader and visual artist inform her contributions to this exciting publishing endeavor. In her free time, Jarucia enjoys reading, photography, Yoga, camping, cooking, and, of course, long walks by the seashore. She currently resides in the Seattle area with her husband and two geriatric guinea pigs.
http://pinkamericanwrites.blogspot.com/

K. C. Wilson lives in North Florida with his wife, Laurel, and two children. He is the songwriter and producer of The Rubes-UNDISPUTED. Formerly a pseudonymous contributor to Cavalier, his more recent fiction is scheduled to appear in Delivered, a U.K. publication. His collection of short fiction, Best Man Complex, was a finalist for the Hudson Prize in 2008. A novella from that collection, Thou Shalt Not, was a finalist for the 2008 Press 53 Open Awards Novella Competition. His screenplay, The Route, adapted from his own novel and co-written by Laurel Wilson, is currently a semi-finalist for the 12th Annual FADE IN Awards.
http://www.amazon.com/Route-Kevin-Wilson/dp/097168300X
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G. Thomas Gill, Senior Poetry Editor
G. Thomas Gill, Tom to his friends, is a well traveled adventurer. Having lived in Michigan, Ohio, Wyoming, Louisiana, and the Netherlands, Tom settled in Florida with his wife. An army veteran, he served at a NATO headquarters where he was introduced to counter-espionage tactics. In civilian life, he worked on projects that gave him access to top secret facilities such as Los Alamos, Sandia, and Livermore Laboratories. Tom draws on his travels and experiences to craft stories of suspense and intrigue that transport readers to some of the lesser known corners of the world. A graduate of the University of Toledo with an MBA, he wrote his first published poem in elementary school. DOG ISLAND, his debut mystery novel, is scheduled to be published in 2012.
 

Rebecca Kyle received her MSIS from UT-Austin. Her research career spanned fields as diverse as history to highway safety. She currently resides at the foot of the Smoky Mountains with her husband of 27 years and 3 cats. She has publications in nonfiction, academic, and short fiction. She is currently at work on a mystery series of her own based in Tennessee. In addition to Conclave, Kyle serves as admissions coordinator for the online critique group, Deadly Prose. Aside from writing and reading, her interests are music, travel and animal rescue.

Stephanie Feuer is a New York City-based writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Boston Herald, Sojourner, The Mom Egg, on bettyconfidential.com, and in numerous anthologies including The Democrat Soul and Love after 70. She's read at the East Village literary bar, KGB and in the essay show, "See Me, Hear Me." Her first novel was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breathrough Novel Awards. She is currently working on a new novel. You may visit her website here: stephaniefeuer.typepad.com

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Patricia O'Sullivan resides in Oxford, Mississippi where she teaches religion and writing at the University of Mississippi. After fifteen years of writing non-fiction on various topics in the history of religion, Patricia turned to creative fiction in 2006. Her first novel, Hope of Israel, was a top-100 finalist in Amazon.com's Breakaway Novel Award in 2008. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and a frequent public speaker in her community.