New Talent at MMR–Micah Dean Hicks and Britt Gambino

We’ve wrangled up some fantastic new editors to join our staff…

On behalf of the MMR Crew–Will Grofic (Poetry Editor), Gabriela Romeri (Associate Editor), and myself (Rae, Something like an editor), we want to welcome Micah Dean Hicks and Britt Gambino to our staff. We’re so excited to have them on board and have already piled their desktops with MMR Anthology 2011 work! If you do not know Micah or Britt, or any of our fine editors, then stop by and say hi on Facebook where you can find us all meandering most days.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR—FICTION | MICAH DEAN HICKS

Micah Dean Hicks is a master’s student in the Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. His fiction and poetry are published or forthcoming in over twenty magazines, including Cream City Review, PANK, kill author, a Capella Zoo, Prick of the Spindle, and Tryst. He’s won the A Capella Zoo Apospecimen Award, the 2010 Shady Side Review Postcard Contest, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story, “How the Weaver’s Wife Killed the Motorcycle Man.” He’s currently hard at work on a collection of fables, fairy tales, and magical realism stories.  

ASSOCIATE EDITOR—POETRY | BRITT GAMBINO

Britt Gambino is an MFA poetry candidate at The New School in New York City. Her work has appeared in anderbo.com, DecomP, The Battered Suitcase, Caper Literary Journal, and vox poetica, among others. Her poem, “Isosceles” was recently nominated by DecomP for Sundress’s Best of the Net 2010 anthology. She lives in Washington Heights, NYC with her partner and a whole lot of meringue music.

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Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.