Rae Cline, Founding Editor
Rae Cline is the founding editor of Eckleburg and author of Precious Ugly, a debut novel releasing from 7.13 Books on August 18, 2026. She is also the author of the short story collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, NY). Her stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, DIAGRAM, North American Review, Gargoyle and more. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have won prizes, scholarships and fellowships from Johns Hopkins, American University, Aspen Writers Foundation and North American Review. She earned an M.A. in Writing at Hopkins and received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from American University, where she was the recipient of the Starr and Sartwell scholarships. She has lectured on campuses and other venues including Hopkins, American University, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and others. Rae splits time between NYC and the Gulf of Mexico with her husband Rand and Havanese puppy Sophi. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and is represented by Jennifer Carlson with Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency. Read more at raecline.com.
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L Ann Dulin writes mid-western gothic and magic realism. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing program and an alum of the Yale Writer’s Workshop. She lives in Baltimore with her family, where she helps secure space science operations for NASA in her spare time. Read more here. |
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Ivy Rozen is an Asheville-based poet and free-expression advocate whose work has been published in Fine Art Globe, Chatham Life & Style Magazine, Education NC, Bottlecap Press and more. Previously the senior editor of Black Mountain Press, Ivy was selected to judge the Elon University Historic Neighborhood’s annual Primavera Poetry Contest for 2026, and recently founded the Midnight Draft Poetry Collective which provides free resources to poets of all backgrounds. After her Free Verse residency in Vermont, Ivy served in AmeriCorps as well as on the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission. Her first full-length collection of poems, If I Love You, is forthcoming this summer from Seed Bed Press. Read more at ivyrozen.com. |
 Thomas Cowell, Editorial Assistant
Thomas Cowell has stories in SmokeLong Quarterly, Across the Margin, Hawaii Pacific Review, Eunoia Review, and some other places. He has written three novellas looking for homes. He is currently traveling through Asia with no pressing plans of returning to the US anytime soon. He grew up on a small island in Washington state. Read more here.
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 Jeremy Berg, Editorial AssistantJeremy Berg studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He is a librarian and Grateful Dead scholar, and currently calls Arizona home. Read more here.
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Dylan Webster lives and writes in the sweltering heat of Phoenix, AZ. He is the author of the poetry collection Dislocated (Quillkeepers Press, 2022). His poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming from One Art: a journal of poetry, Pennine Platform, and Amethyst Review, among others. He can be found on IG @phoenicianpoet. |
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Caitlin Hamilton Summie earned her MFA with Distinction from Colorado State University. Her short stories have been published in Puerto del Sol, Wisconsin Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal. In 2017, Fomite will publish her first book, a short story collection. She is the former Marketing Director of MacMurray & Beck and also of BlueHen Books/Penguin Putnam. At each company she also managed imprint profile and directed all publicity, hardcover & paperback. In addition, for nearly two years she simultaneously directed and handled sales nationwide for MacMurray & Beck. In 2003, she founded Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC, an independent book publicity and marketing firm. |
| Current and Past Guest Editors and Judges: Cris Mazza, Rick Moody, David Wagoner, Molly Gaudry, Ben Loory, Vallie Lynn Watson, Luke Wallin, Laura Ellen Scott, Roxane Gay |
