MEET THE TEAM

CRYSTAL S. GIBBINS, Founder, Editor, Web Designer

Crystal S. Gibbins is a Canadian American writer of Métis (Ojibwe/Scottish and Cree/French) descent. She’s the editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment and author of the full-length poetry collection NOW/HERE, winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for poetry and runner-up for the 2017 Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, selected by Sean Thomas Dougherty. Her poetry and comics have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Coffee House Writers Project, Hobart, The Minnesota Review, North American Review, Oyster River Pages, Parentheses, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, among others. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. Originally from the Northwest Angle and Islands in Lake of the Woods (Minnesota and Ontario), Crystal now lives along Chequamegon Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior in northwestern Wisconsin. 

AMY CLARK, Assistant Editor

Amy Clark is the author of a memoir, Remnants of the Disappeared, and a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. She has published poetry in various journals such as Mid-American Review and Cimarron Review. Amy moved to Duluth upon being inspired by the "big lake," but now lives near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and is working on a collection of lyric essays that discuss the intersection of science, history, mythology, and sulfide mine debate.

WHITNEY (WALTERS) JACOBSON, Assistant Editor, Shoreline Book Reviewer, Photic Zone Interviewer

Whitney (Walters) Jacobson holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in Punctuate, Feminine Collective, Up North Lit, After the Pause, and In the Words of Womyn International, among other publications. She is currently working on a collection of essays exploring skills, objects, and traits passed on (or not) from generation to generation. She maintains a curiosity in memoir and the themes of feminism, water, inheritance, blue-collar work, and grief.

ANURADHA PRASAD, Reader & Shoreline Book Reviewer

Anuradha Prasad is a writer and copyeditor living in Bangalore, India. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Sleet Magazine, Literally Stories, Borderless Journal, Bangalore Review, and Muse India. She is currently exploring her interest in nature, travel, and wildlife.

SERENITY SCHOONOVER, Reader & Shoreline Book Reviewer

Serenity Schoonover has an MA in History, is a fellow with the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and teaches writing classes to adults and teens. She was recently selected to teach at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, MN. Her work has aired on National Public Radio and appeared in Women’s Independent Press, Cross-Country Skier, Bella Grace, CALYX, among others.

DANIKA E. HOLLIS, Reader

Danika E. Hollis is a fiction author and artist who likes to bring magic to the everyday. Her visual art has won third place at the San Diego Fair and has appeared in the San Diego Reader and online at Months To Years. She has a strong interest in writing, visual art, Antarctica, and anything with all three. Danika has a love of learning and is a happy graduate student in Literature at The University of Texas at Dallas. When not traveling the world or exploring it by pen, she can be found with her husband and daughter or lifting weights at the gym. Follow her @danikaehollis.

NATASHA PEPPERL, Reader

Natasha Pepperl’s poetry has appeared in Appalachian Review, Split Rock Review, Lily Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is also a foster mom and hosts the nationally acclaimed Just As Special podcast, which is the place to learn about foster care from diverse perspectives. Natasha is the proud daughter of an Iranian refugee and shares her city with the Rocky Mountains. Read more of Natasha’s poetry at CeremoniesOfFamily.com.

RACHEL COYNE, Reader

Rachel Coyne is the author of several books, including Whiskey Heart, The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake (a MN Book Award Finalist) and the YA Series The Antigone Ravynn Chronicles. Coyne is a collector of vintage editions of Jane Eyre, a devotee of Pablo Neruda and a lover of Don Williams songs. She resides in small town, northeastern Minnesota.

HALEY LAWSON, Reader & Shoreline Book Reviewer

Haley Lawson is an American writer and teacher. She has taught in the U.S.A., Mongolia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. After working and living abroad, she gained a new perspective on her mother tongue and started writing. Her fiction is published in The Manchester Anthology IX and The Centre for New Writing Zine. She graduated in December 2021 with a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Haley writes under the pen name H. M. L. Swann.

BRENDAN CURTINRICH, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Brendan Curtinrich grew up on the north coast of Ohio and in the sheep pastures of New York. He studied creative writing at Hiram College and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University where he also served as the Nonfiction Editor and Book Review Manager for Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. He has walked long trails both in the U.S. and abroad, and writes nonfiction and fiction about ecological issues, particularly the ways human animals affect and are affected by the environment. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Trail Runner, Appalachia, Gigantic Sequins, Sierra, and Footnote.

DARCIE ABBENE, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Darcie Abbene has work in Tupelo Quarterly, Whitefish Review, Parhelion Literature, and Teachers and Writers Magazine. She writes book reviews for Necessary Fiction, Split Rock Review and Kirkus Reviews. Darcie is the managing and nonfiction editor at the Green Mountains Review and an editorial consultant at Write By Night and the School Library Journal. She is working on a collection of essays about teaching writing.

REBECCA FISH EWAN, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Poet/cartoonist, Rebecca Fish Ewan's passion is mingling text with visual art, primarily in ink and watercolor, to tell stories of place and memory. Her hybrid-form work has appeared in After the Art, Brevity, Crab Fat, Survivor Zine, Hip Mama, Mutha, TNB, Punctuate and Under the Gum Tree. Her illustrations and essay, “The Deepest Place on Earth,” were published in the Literary Kitchen anthology, Places Like Home. Rebecca has an MFA in creative writing from ASU, where she has been a landscape design professor for 25+ years. Rebecca grew up in Berkeley, California, and lives with her family in Arizona. Books/chapbook: A Land Between, By the Forces of Gravity, Water Marks, and her newest book, Doodling for Writers, which released October 2020.

JEFF FEARNSIDE, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Jeff Fearnside is the author of Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) and Ships in the Desert (forthcoming from SFWP Press). His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review, The Pinch, Story, and Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press). Honors for his work include a Grand Prize in the Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Program, the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award, and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He teaches at Oregon State University.

DYLAN WARD, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Dylan Ward lives and writes various things in North Carolina. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Person's Trash, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He also contributes as a fiction reader for Alternating Current Press and Flash Fiction Magazine. When not writing he's usually reading something with a strong cup of coffee, pondering the mysteries of the world, or dreaming of writing

GLEN YOUNG, Shoreline Book Reviewer

Glen Young is a teacher, writer, kayak guide, and house painter. His poetry has appeared in The Walloon Writers Review and the anthologies Beneath the Lilac Canopy and Thoreau at Mackinac. He is a founding member of the Foundation for Teaching and Learning, as well as the Little Traverse Literary Guild. He serves on the board of the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book and the Mackinac Arts Council. He divides his time between Petoskey and Mackinac Island in northern Michigan.