STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Amanda
Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake
Review and the author of The Glass Crib,
winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Her second
manuscript, The City That Care Forgot, was a
finalist for the 2012 New Issues Press Green Rose Prize. Her work has
appeared in AGNI, American Poetry
Review, Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB
Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, The
Greensboro Review, The Journal, Poetry
Daily, and others. She holds an MFA from Bennington College
and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is
the Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and is
completing her MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. Her poetry has
been published in Pebble Lake Review, The
Adirondack Review, and Southern Women's Review,
among others. A 2000 Academy of American Poets' award recipient, her
recent poetry is forthcoming in Ping Pong and in
an anthology on Sylvia Plath-inspired poems by Fat Gold Watch Press.
She teaches at Houston Community College.
Marissa Sinisi is the
Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and holds
a BA in English from The Pennsylvania State University and an MFA in
Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She has taught
writing at various universities, including The Pennsylvania State
University's Greater Allegheny Campus and Point Park University. She
currently works as a proofreader.
Eddie Gonzalez is the general prose editor of Pebble Lake Review.
He studied writing and Spanish literature at the University of Oklahoma
and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, where he
was awarded the InPrint/Robert J. Sussman Prize in Fiction. He has
worked at the editorial offices of World Literature Today and the
University of Oklahoma Press. He writes out of Corpus Christi and has
recent work appearing in Hayden's Ferry Review.
Jeffrey Wood is the web editor
at Pebble Lake Review. His specialties are
endless patience, HTML code, and bringing the editor cups of Earl Grey
tea. Despite current rumors, he is not an astronaut.
Eddy Roberts is the Creative
Director of Pebble Lake Review. He is a full-time
faculty member at the Ringling College of Art and Design in the Graphic
and Interactive Communication Department. He has experience with
prominent cultural, architectural and institutional clients including
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Hermann Park Conservancy, Ziegler
Cooper Architects and Rice Design Alliance. He is a former writer and
design contributor to the independent publication D*zine.
Exhibitions include shows at the Blaffer Gallery and Commerce Street
Studios in Houston, TX as well as Selby Gallery in Sarasota, FL.
