Mars Girolimon
Mars Girolimon is a writer with fiction published or forthcoming in the North American Review, So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and X-R-A-Y. Girolimon has a master’s degree from Southern New Hampshire University and is currently drafting a debut novel.
Alexa Gustavsen
Alexa Gustavsen is an associate content writer at SNHU with a passion for reading and writing. She graduated in December 2020 with her BA in Creative Writing & English with a minor in marketing. She is currently pursuing a master’s in digital marketing. Gustavsen joined The Penmen Review team in early 2020 and enjoys reading all the wonderful submissions.
Rebecca LeBoeuf
Rebecca LeBoeuf is a content writer at SNHU. In 2018, she earned a BA in Communication with a minor in professional writing, and in 2022 she completed an MA in English and Creative Writing with a concentration in nonfiction. She joined The Penmen Review team in 2015 and enjoys reading the range of submissions received each quarter.
Nicholas Patterson
Nicholas Patterson ’22 is an associate content writer at SNHU. He is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing. Patterson has been a student at SNHU since 2018 and joined The Penmen Review team in 2021. He is passionate about writing and has ambitions of becoming a published author.
Jacob Powers
Jacob Powers earned an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction from Boise State University and a BA in Creative Writing with a minor in English Literature from Grand Valley State University. He has published in Narrative and Out of Stock magazines, served as editor-in-chief for his graduate-run literary magazine, cold-drill, and read for The Idaho Review. He also served as a contest coordinator and reader for the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories. Jacob has worked at SNHU since 2014 and currently serves as the associate dean for the online BA and MA Creative Writing programs.
Amanda Rabaduex
Amanda Rabaduex is a 2018 graduate of SNHU with an MA in English. She works as a freelance writer and adjunct instructor and previously served in the U.S. Air Force as a linguist. She lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania, where her favorite things are etymology, spending time with her family and practicing yoga.
Christopher Sullivan
Christopher Sullivan, MFA, has worked as an adjunct instructor at SNHU since 2011 and has served as a member of The Penmen Review editorial board since 2012. Sullivan teaches numerous creative writing, screenwriting and English composition courses at SNHU, and he encourages his students to be fearless (and keep an open mind) as they study and sharpen their respective craft. In his spare time, Sullivan enjoys to write, read and spend time with his beautiful family. He is also an avid Boston sports fan.
Paul Witcover
Paul Witcover is the author of the novels Waking Beauty, Tumbling After, Dracula: Asylum, The Emperor of All Things, The Watchman of Eternity and Lincolnstein. His short fiction is collected in Everland and Other Stories. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and he has served on the jury for the Jackson and Philip K. Dick awards. His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Locus, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. He co-created and co-wrote the DC Comic Anima.
Witcover has an MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and is a graduate of the Clarion Writing Workshop. He is a recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has worked at SNHU for 10 years and is currently the Associate Dean of the Online MFA.