Editorial Board
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Eric K. Delehoy
Founding Editor |
Eric Delehoy is the founding editor of Gertrude Press. His essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in a number of journals such as instant city, The Rockford Review, Onthebus, Coal City Review, Upstairs at Duroc, Seedhouse, Weird Sisters, and Cranial Tempest, among others. His short story, "Bus People," received the Rockford Review's Editors' Choice Award. Eric earned his Master in Fine Arts (Fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2004. He has served in numerous positions in LGBTQA organizations including Executive Director, and later Board of Directors President of the Lambda Community Center, a non-profit educational and social support organization serving the queer communities of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. |
Justus Ballard
Fiction Editor |
Justus Ballard lives in Portland, Oregon. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. In 2004, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University; later that year, he received the Friends of Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship from Oregon's Literary Arts for a novel in progress. His long short story "The Cubist Infant" was published in March 2005, by Cloverfield Press. In 2006, he was awarded the Lisa S. Ede TYCA-Pacific Northwest Outstanding Teacher Award, Adjunct Category (TYCA is the Two Year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of English). He is the fiction editor of Gertrude, and does design and layout for Gertrude Press. He also does freelance design work for the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, a Portland-based non-profit that focuses on issues of mental health in the community. He is currently working on a novel, several short stories, and a rock opera. |
Steven Rydman
Poetry Editor |
Steven Rydman resides in the Metropolitan Detroit area of Michigan and Key West, Florida. He holds a B.S. Degree (Suma Cum Laude) from Wayne State University in Secondary Education English and Math. For three years, he worked for the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project, traveling the state of Michigan and beyond doing fundraising, safer sex workshops and gay/lesbian sensitivity trainings. In December 2004, he completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Rattle, Connecticut River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Bloom, Bellingham Review, Chiron Review, The Los Angeles Review and StoryQuarterly. He received one Commendation and two Honorable Mentions in the 2001, 2003, and 2004 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, plus Third Place in both the Detroit Writer's Voice 2003 Contest judged by X.J. Kennedy and in the 2003 Oscar Wilde Poetry Awards from Gival Press. His piece "Vacuum" was picked by Robert Olen Butler as the 2006 World's Best Short Short Story in The Southeast Review. He published his first chapbook of poetry, My Town, in the summer of 2003. He recently wrote a review of Tom Ford's film A Single Man for Lambda Literary.
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Jedidiah Chavez
Art Editor |
Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist whose cultural productions explore the relationships between personal narrative and public space. Using the traditional media of drawing and painting in conjunction with the contemporary tools offered by video and the internet, Chavez's pointed political works explore themes of identity, community, and historical amnesia.
Jedidiah Chavez currently works out of Portland, Oregon. Chavez's work has been prominently showcased in a variety of venues in the Pacific Northwest, including the Portland Art Center, Portland Q Center, and Whitman College. His work has also been featured nationally in numerous museums and universities, including the James Cohan Gallery in New York and the Wiseman Gallery in Chicago. Chavez has also headed a number of curatorial projects and serves as the Art Editor of Gertrude Press. In 2002, Chavez was an Alexander Foundation Fellow for the study of Contemporary Arts. Chavez holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Northern Colorado and an M.F.A. from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts.
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LeAnna Crawford
Board President
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LeAnna has always had a special place for the absurd, the extraordinary, the art that pushes the boundaries of what we call art. She’s been an actor, an artist’s model, and everything in between, but all the time a poet. Finally giving in to her secret obsession LeAnna received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles in 2007. Her work has been seen in a range of places from The Oklahoma Review to The Dirty Napkin, and The Sylvan Echo. LeAnna also teaches English and Writing at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon which, among many things, serves as a constant reminder that the queer cause has a long way to go. |
Tammy Stoner
Vice President
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Tammy is the writer/creator of "Dottie's Magic Pockets" - the first kids show for children in LGBT families and their friends. In 2007, she was a finalist for Disney/Touchstone's Film Fellowship. She has worked at The Advocate and OUT magazines and Alyson Books, where she edited three anthologies. Her writing has appeared in a few dozen places, including StarF*cker, Society, Urban Syntax, and DotDotDot. She is currently trying to sell one of her kidneys ("juicy, juicy!") to pay off her MFA - interested parties can email her directly. |
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Allison Tobey
Secretary |
Allison Tobey grew up in the lands surrounding Cleveland, Ohio. After a five year stint in the corn fields of Iowa she is glad to live in Portland, Oregon where she works as a coffee slinger and is a candidate for her Masters in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She has seven chickens in her backyard which is illegal under Oregon state law. (Yes, she looked it up.)
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Elizabeth Simson
Member at Large
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Elizabeth Simson has been in love with poetry since her mother first read her "The Highwayman" as a child. Her poems have appeared in over two dozen literary journals and anthologies, including Versal, Atlanta Review, Kalliope, Comstock Review, Common Ground Review, BorderSenses, Earth's Daughters, and elsewhere. Elizabeth’s first chapbook, Sea Change, was published in 2005 by Finishing Line Press. A 1996 graduate of Willamette University, Elizabeth received the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar's Award. She is a member of the 29th Street Writers. Catch her online at www.poemfish.com. |
Barb McClendon
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Barb McClendon is a graphic designer for the Multnomah County Health Department. When not creating brochures and flyers for the latest and greatest STD threat, she is a visual artist. Her works are largely political in nature, but always served up with a side of sardonic humor and wit. She is also a member of Q Center’s Marketing & Communications Team, where she helps conceive and create marketing materials for the center. She graduated from Marylhurst University in 2008 with a degree in Art. While attending Marylhurst, she was the recipient of a Knight Opportunity Scholarship and was a founding member of the school’s LGBT student group S.A.F.E. (Sexual Acceptance For Everyone.) Barb is always on the lookout for her own personal matron of the arts/sugar momma – interested parities please apply within.
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Siobhan Crosby
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Siobhan Crosby hails from Philadelphia, PA with a stint in our nation's capital while earning her BA in Liberal Arts at The George Washington University with a minor in Creative Writing. She was drawn to Portland for its distance from home and has stayed for the creative energy, fantastic food and drink culture, dry summers, and the Hood strawberries. She works as an online marketing specialist for a music publisher and is full-time mom to Little Miss V. She brings a big Rolodex, a special schmoo-zheh-sais-quoi and a fondness for spreadsheets to the Gertrude Board.
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