The Switchback Books Editors
Hanna Andrews, Founding Editor
Hanna Andrews is a native New Yorker, and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia College Chicago. She currently lives in Brooklyn and works as Editor at the Academy of American Poets. Recent work appears in DIAGRAM, Foursquare and Word for/Word and she was a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist. Her chapbook, a/long/division, was published by Tilt Press and her manuscript, Slope Move was a finalist for the 2011 Sawtooth Prize from Ahsahta Press. View Hanna's work.
Becca Klaver, Founding Editor
Becca Klaver was born in Milwaukee, WI, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, and is a student in the English PhD program at Rutgers University. She is the author of the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) and the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost press, 2009). View Becca's work.
S. Whitney Holmes, Managing Editor
S. Whitney Holmes was born and raised in north-central West Virginia. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, and is currently a student in the English & Creative Writing PhD program at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems appear in Willow Springs, Ninth Letter, and Gulf Coast.
Colleen O'Connor, Assistant Managing Editor
Colleen O'Connor lives in Chicago, where she is a Nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia College and an assistant editor for Hotel Amerika. Her work has appeared in Pank, Everyday Genius and Columbia Poetry Review.
Dolly Lemke, Assistant Editor
Dolly Lemke received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Her poems are published or forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2010, and horse less review. She is currently a paper-pusher in downtown Chicago, Assistant Editor for Switchback Books, and Associate Editor for Arsenic Lobster. She also hosts The Dollhouse Reading Series and copyedits for the online music website Pop 'stache.