Category: From the Editor

  • From the Editor: August 2021

    When Chet’la Sebree and Andrew Ciotola wrote me to ask if I’d serve as acting editor for 2021-2022, I answered immediately. Yes. I have served as an associate editor for … Read the rest

  • From the Editor: May 2021

    As my ten years as editor of West Branch draw to a close, I’m thinking much about the gatekeeping role of any editor. This gatekeeping quality is irreducible: the power to choose which voices to present, which voices to decline.

  • From The Editor: June 2019

    From The Editor: June 2019

    Dear Friends, Readers, and Submitters: Thank you for supporting West Branch this year! We’ve now completed our reading for the year—and responded to every single submission in our queue. For … Read the rest

  • From the Editor: Spring 2017

    From the Editor: Spring 2017

    AND WE’RE OFF! Dear Everyone, A quick note to welcome our readers, and submitters, back from the summer, parts of which I spent focused on the woolly adelgids currently munching … Read the rest