The OBR Team is growing! Visit theAbout Us page to learn more.
Co-Editors
Marissa Glover teaches writing, humanities, and public speaking courses at Saint Leo University. Before academia, Marissa worked as a writer and editor for more than fifteen years. She is currently co-editor of Orange Blossom Review and a senior editor at The Lascaux Review, and her own work has been widely published in various journals and anthologies. Let Go of the Hands You Hold, her full-length poetry collection, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press in early 2021. You can read Marissa’s recent interview in Hoctok Magazine, learn more at her website MarissaGlover.com, and follow her on Twitter.
John David Harding is an associate professor of writing/research in the Cannon Memorial Library at Saint Leo University. He serves as assistant director of the Sandhill Writers Retreat and co-edits the literary journal Orange Blossom Review. Recent scholarly work includes a chapter published in Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers (Mercer University Press, 2020). His creative work includes publications in fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Poetry Team
Poetry Editor: Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, mother of two, and associate professor and coordinator of creative writing in the English, Literature, and World Languages Department at Ferris State University. Fagan is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Find a Place for Me, Regal House Publishing, 2022; a collection of short stories, The Grief Eater, Adelaide Books, 2020; a chapbook of poetry, Have Love, Finishing Line Press, 2019; and a reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost, Facts on File, 2007. Her poem, “Outside In,” was a Best of the Net finalist, 2018. Fagan writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and academic essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy. Meet her at deirdrefagan.com.
Prose Team
Prose Editor: Shanti Bruce, Ph.D., is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts at Nova Southeastern University. Two of her books have been honored with the International Writing Centers Association’s Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book. She has given numerous peer-reviewed and invited conference presentations and has co-chaired multiple conferences.
All general inquiries may be sent to orangeblossomreview@outlook.com. Contributors: Please do not send submission queries until the next submission period has begun.
