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Meet the Editors: Jacob Wood, Photography

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020

Jacob Wood became the Great Lakes Review photography editor in February 2020. He’s an immigrant from the United Kingdom and has lived in the United States for two years. A resident of Pennsylvania, Jacob’s specialty is landscape photography. Jacob chatted …

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Meet the Editors: Kate Watt, Poetry

May 26, 2020May 29, 2020

Kate Watt joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she’s an assistant teaching professor. You’ll find her work in a variety …

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Meet The Editors: Jimmy Hollenbeck, Fiction

April 2, 2020April 14, 2020

Jimmy Hollenbeck joined the Great Lakes Review team as a fiction editor in February 2020. A Michigan native, Jimmy holds a Master’s degree in English language and literature from Central Michigan University and studied film and creative writing there as …

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Meet The Editors: Dom Fonce, Poetry

March 25, 2020April 1, 2020

Dom Fonce joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. He also serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Volney Road Review, founded in 2018, and you can find his work in numerous literary magazines, journals, and …

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“Tangents Are The Point”  Q & A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski
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“Tangents Are The Point” Q & A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski

March 16, 2017February 5, 2020

Q&A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski (pictured above at a Dunkirk social club) as he romanticizes and sometimes denigrates: Chris Paul; sarcasm’s hidden kindness; self-destruction as research; necessary meanness in food writing; and thoughts of his father, dead at 39 …

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The Love Boat: Writer recounts getting hitched while living on Lake Michigan

November 10, 2015February 15, 2020

A young woman in the big city meets a fella, they fall in love and get married. It sounds like a familiar formula. But the guy happens to live on a boat. And we’re not talking like the quirky dude who …

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Andrea Scarpino, new U.P. poet laureate: ‘My desire is to get poetry out into the community’

April 28, 2015February 17, 2020

Michigan doesn’t have an official, state-supported poet laureate. But a grassroots campaign has created a position in the Upper Peninsula. Andrea Scarpino was recently named the poet laureate of the U.P. for 2015-2017. She succeeds Russell Thorburn, the first laureate …

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TOUGH, MAGIC, REGIONAL: An interview with Julie Babcock

April 3, 2015February 15, 2020

INTERVIEW BY MEREDITH COUNTS When I talked with poet Julie Babcock this winter she was finishing the semester teaching at the University of Michigan, excited about starting a new journal, and enjoying the events surrounding the November 2014 release of Autoplay (MG …

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Bestseller spotlight: Ellen Airgood

March 10, 2015February 15, 2020

Ellen Airgood’s 2012 novel South of Superior has come in at numerous slots on the Michigan bestseller list over the past few months. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? When I started writing South …

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