About
Portal del Sol is an online journal dedicated to the art of literary magazines and the writers, readers, and editors who craft and sustain them. The Portal aims to critically explore the means by which contemporary literature reaches its reader, providing honest and thoughtful perspectives on journals, their content, and the writing, editing, and publishing life. This dialogue will be active and ongoing, and will provide claim to this simple argument: We believe the literary magazine matters. We want the Portal to be about why.
Editor
Callista Buchen
Callista Buchen has an MA in literature from the University of Oregon and an MFA in creative writing from Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared in Gigantic, Bellevue Review, >kill author, and others, with reviews published in Mid-American Review, The Collagist, and Prick of the Spindle. For more information, see callistabuchen.wordpress.com.
Managing Editor
Matthew Minicucci
Matthew Minicucci is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Champaign. He has previously worked as Assistant Poetry Editor and as an Editorial Assistant at Ninth Letter. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Quiddity, and Copper Nickel. He has also been featured on Verse Daily.
Copy Editor
Lauren Carpenter
Lauren Carpenter lives, works, and writes in Central Ohio. Her poetry has appeared in the Greensboro Review and Dark Sky Magazine.
Webmaster
Ken Kmak
Ken Kmak earned his B.A. in Language, Literature and Writing and history (Phi Alpha Theta) at the University of Kansas. A McNair Scholar, he is still a Jayhawk, and currently pursues an M.A. in English. He has edited several newsletters, was editorial consultant on three books of oral history published by the Public Works Historical Society, and worked in IT for over twenty years. Having designed, developed and managed hundreds of websites, he is the Portal Del Sol webmaster, editor-in-chief for the newly-launched K.A.U.S.E. website, and is also creator and webmaster for the Digitally Illuminated Chaucer.
Contributing Editors
Jennifer Colatosti
Jennifer Colatosti teaches at the University of Kansas, where she is pursuing a PhD in creative writing. She has been a guest contributor for the Project on the History of Black Writing and Matterpress blogs. She currently serves as assistant fiction editor for Beecher’s magazine, and has work forthcoming in The MacGuffin and The Southeast Review.
Angela Gentry
Angela S. Gentry received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Poetry from Bowling Green State University. Her chapbook, Stirrings of Movement, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. She is the two-time recipient of the Devine Summer Fellowship in Poetry and the former Managing Editor and Assistant Poetry Editor of Mid-American Review. She currently lives in Ohio and would like to own a llama one day.
Brad Modlin
Brad Modlin‘s poetry, fiction, and CNF have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, The Florida Review, and River Teeth, among others. Formerly the Poetry Editor of Mid-American Review, he teaches creative writing, composition, and journalism at Heidelberg University in Ohio.
Ben Pfieffer
Ben Pfeiffer is the managing editor and cofounder of Beecher’s Magazine. He currently teaches at the University of Kansas, where he is an MFA Candidate in Fiction. For more information on his projects, future events, and forthcoming writing, visit his website, WritingInTheWild.org.
Mary Stone Dockery
Mary Stone Dockery’s poetry and prose is forthcoming in Gargoyle, Foundling Review, and Breadcrumb Scabs, and has appeared in other fine journals. She currently lives, teaches, and writes in Lawrence, KS where she co-edits both the Blue Island Review and Stone Highway Review. For more information: marykstone.wordpress.com
