LeAnna Crawford
Managing Editor
& Board President
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LeAnna has always had a special place for the absurd, the extraordinary, the art that pushes the boundaries of what we call art. She’s been an actor, an artist’s model, and everything in between, but all the time a poet. Finally giving in to her secret obsession LeAnna received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles in 2007. Her work has been seen in places ranging from The Oklahoma Review to The Dirty Napkin and many of the worlds in between.
LeAnna also teaches writing and English at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, OR and as a direct result has become a stickler for grammar, organization, and flow. This is probably why she’s the newly elected Managing Editor of Gertrude Press.
As the Managing Editor LeAnna is looking for unity within the journal and balance (or the intentional asymmetry) of art with art. She loves the way humans experience the world and struggle with expressing that experience. She’s looking forward to keeping up the greatness that’s she’s come to know and love in Gertrude, as well as pushing the old girl out of her comfortable knickers on occasion. |
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Tammy Lynne Stoner
Fiction Editor
& Vice President
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Tammy is the writer/creator of "Dottie's Magic Pockets" - the first kids show for children in LGBT-headed families and their friends. Dottie’s has played at dozens of international film festivals, was invited to perform on the R Family Cruises, has been featured in oodles of media outlets, including NPR, Cool Mom Picks, and Curve magazine, and is available in 100+ libraries.
A script Tammy wrote was a semi-finalist for Disney/Touchstone's Film Fellowship, and another has 250,000+ hits on-line. She has worked at The Advocate and OUT magazines, Alyson Books, and other presses. Her writing has appeared StarF*cker, Society, Urban Syntax, DotDotDot, and more – but mostly she writes novels and scripts. She is currently trying to sell one ofher kidneys ("juicy, juicy!") to pay off her MFA – interested parties can email her directly. Tammy maintains a trifecta of websites: TammyLynneStoner.com (literary), StonerWrites.com (freelance), and ADamnGoodEditor.com (editing).
As the Fiction Editor for Gertrude Press, Tammy is looking for smart, unique, strong pieces with a memorable voice and a beginning, middle, and end. She is interested in work across all genres, notably literary and lit-sci-fi (ala Gibson), under 3,000 words from new and established writers. Submit! |
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J. M. Jansen
Art Editor |
After living a rather nomadic life, J.M. Jansen is pleased to have landed in Portland, OR. She is excited to be the new Visual Arts Editor for Gertrude Press. J.M. is a multimedia artist whose work has been shown both nationally and internationally. In 2009 her work was selected for the UAMO Contemporary Arts Festival in Munich, Germany, and in 2010 she was part of a group show at Laguanacazul Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2011 her work was chosen for the Spaceworks project in Tacoma, WA. She holds a BFA from University of Dayton and an MAAE from Art Academy of Cincinnati. J.M.’s artwork encompasses concepts of displacement, temporality, and place. She is influenced by elements of her everyday landscape, combined with reconfigurations of memories. |
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Elizabeth Simson
Poetry Editor |
Elizabeth Simson is the author of Sea Change (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen literary journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, Versal, Kalliope, Comstock Review, BorderSenses and Earth’s Daughters. Liz has been a poetry slam judge, newsletter editor and contestjudge for the Oregon State Poetry Association, and resident at Soapstone: A Writing Retreat for Women. Elizabeth holds a BA from Willamette University and is currently finishing her Master’s thesis in Applied Theology at Marylhurst University. Liz is a National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar’s Award winner, an active member of the 29th Street Writers and a volunteer writing workshop facilitator for Write Around Portland. Her web site is www.poemfish.com.
As Poetry Editor, Liz is interested in poems which startle and inspire. She swoons for hard-hitting metaphors which go beyond word play for pleasure to invent language for a world which, half-imagined, remains beyond our reach. Liz is eager to bring new faces and new names into Gertrude and especially welcomes work by people of color and poet-prophets on the margins. |
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Allison Tobey
Secretary |
Allison Tobey grew up in the lands surrounding Cleveland, Ohio. After a five year stint in the corn fields of Iowa she is glad to live in Portland, OR where she teaches college. She received her Masters in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She has seven chickens in her backyard, which is illegal under Oregon state law. (Yes, she looked it up.)
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Justus Ballard
Design & Layout |
Justus Ballard lives in Portland, OR. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. In 2004, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University; later that year, he received the Friends of Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship from Oregon's Literary Arts for a novel in progress. His long short story "The Cubist Infant" was published in March 2005, by Cloverfield Press. In 2006, he was awarded the Lisa S. Ede TYCA-Pacific Northwest Outstanding Teacher Award, Adjunct Category (TYCA is the Two Year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of English). He does design and layout for Gertrude Press, as well as freelance design work for the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, a Portland-based non-profit that focuses on issues of mental health in the community. He is currently working on a novel, several short stories, and a rock opera. |
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Siobhan Crosby
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Siobhan Crosby hails from Philadelphia, PA with a stint in our nation's capital while earning her BA in Liberal Arts at The George Washington University with a minor in Creative Writing. She loves Portland for the creative energy of its people, fantastic food and drink culture, dry summers, and the Hood strawberries. She works as an online marketing specialist for a music publisher and is full-time mom to Little Miss V. She brings a big Rolodex, a special schmoo-zheh-sais-quoi and a fondness for spreadsheets to the Gertrude Board.
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Steven Rydman
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Steven Rydman resides in the Metropolitan Detroit area of Michigan and Key West, Florida. He holds a B.S. Degree (Suma Cum Laude) from Wayne State University in Secondary Education English and Math. For three years, he worked for the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project, traveling the state of Michigan and beyond doing fundraising, safer sex workshops and gay/lesbian sensitivity trainings. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.
His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Rattle, Connecticut River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Bloom, Bellingham Review, Chiron Review, The Los Angeles Review and StoryQuarterly. He received one Commendation and two Honorable Mentions in the 2001, 2003, and 2004 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, plus Third Place in both the Detroit Writer's Voice 2003 Contest judged by X.J. Kennedy and in the 2003 Oscar Wilde Poetry Awards from Gival Press. His piece "Vacuum" was picked by Robert Olen Butler as the 2006 World's Best Short Short Story in The Southeast Review. He published his first chapbook of poetry, My Town, in the summer of 2003. He recently wrote a review of Tom Ford's film A Single Man for Lambda Literary.
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Eric K. Delehoy
Founding Editor |
Eric Delehoy is the founding editor of Gertrude Press. His essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in a number of journals such as instant city, The Rockford Review, Onthebus, Coal City Review, Upstairs at Duroc, Seedhouse, Weird Sisters, and Cranial Tempest, among others. His short story, "Bus People," received the Rockford Review's Editors' Choice Award. Eric earned his Master in Fine Arts (Fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2004. He has served in numerous positions in LGBTQA organizations including Executive Director, and later Board of Directors President of the Lambda Community Center, a non-profit educational and social support organization serving the queer communities of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. |
