Staff

Founding Editor

Patricia Colleen Murphy

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for her poetry collection Bully Love and the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award for her poetry collection Hemming Flames. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, and American Poetry Review, and most recently in Black Warrior Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and Natural Bridge. A chapter from her memoir in progress was published by New Orleans Review. She has received awards from the Associated Writing Programs and the Academy of American Poets, The Madison Review, Glimmer Train Press, The GSU Review, and The Southern California Review. She reviews books on Goodreads.

Faculty Advisors

Claire Lauer

Web Advisor Claire Lauer teaches courses in visual communication, multimedia composing, and technical communication as an assistant professor in the Multimedia Writing and Technical Communication program at Arizona State University Polytechnic. She is a certified Webmaster and has taught workshops in Web design and writing for the Web.

Judith Van

Judith Van earned a BFA in Studio Art, and an MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She currently teaches writing at ASU and for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and is the "Come Home to English” Art and Archives gallery director. She was fiction editor of Hayden's Ferry Review, and Gallery Director of Harry Wood Gallery. She has shown work in juried competitions in Arizona, California, and Oregon, and is currently working on a novel.

Kristin LaCroix

Fiction Advisor Kristin LaCroix teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. She is the recipient of the 2001 Katherine C. Turner Award in Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. Her community outreach projects include working with Alzheimers patients through poetry, and teaching in the Tempe Community Writers Project. She worked as an Education Specialist on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Reservation where she taught creative writing workshops and led the community children in producing a literary journal of their poems, stories, and artwork.

Student Editors

Anthony Cinquepalmi

Anthony Cinquepalmi is the photoshop editor for Issue 6. He is a sophomore English (Creative Writing) major in Barrett, the Honors College at ASU. His poetry was published in last spring's edition of Lux Literary Magazine. His experience with photography spans over the past five years and includes repeated study in High School as well as current study with ASU's Photo department. He has worked with azTeen magazine as a photographer, and recently, his work was chosen to be exhibited at ASU's downtown campus in an Honor's Collage artist showcase.

Anthony Torres

Anthony Torres is the art editor for Issue 6. He is a senior completing his last year at Arizona State University studying English Literature. Afterward he plans on attending graduate school in either linguistic studies or literature. His long-term goal is to become an editor at one of the major publishing houses. Along with his internship with Superstition Review, he also works freelance at the number one online outsourcing company, Burn Your To Do List, where he writes and proofreads article submissions for clients.

Ashley Brand

Ashley Brand is a blogger for Issue 6. She is a Creative Writing major and Film & Media Studies minor in her Junior year at Arizona State University. She has been published in the online literary magazine Riverbabble and in What The Thunder Said. In the future, Ashley aspires to graduate from ASU and write screenplays.

Brandy Winchester

Brandy Winchester is the poetry editor for Issue 6 and the art editor for Issue 7. She is a senior at Arizona State University. She plans on graduating in May of 2011 with a Bachelor in English Literature, and a minor in Anthropology. After her graduation she would like to attend a law school in Arizona. Her long term career goals consist of graduating from law school to then go onto practicing in family law; specializing in divorce cases. This is her first intern position and she looks forwards to the experience.

Carrie Grant

Carrie Grant is a blogger for Issue 5 and the content coordinator for Issue 6. She is a junior at ASU pursuing concurrent degrees in English Literature and Sociology. She is currently the editor in chief of The Barrett Chronicle, a student-run magazine for the Honors College. Carrie also works on ASU's Tempe campus for the Success Coaching Center, where she helps students confront college challenges, and for the Writing Center, where she is a tutor. This is Carrie's second semester as a Superstition Review intern, and she is excited to continue to develop skills that will help her pursue a career in magazine or book publishing upon graduation.

Chris Schmidt

Chris Schmidt is the nonficiton editor for both Issue 5 and Issue 6. She will complete her Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature, Writing & Film in December of this year, and then plans to apply for graduate school to focus on liberal studies with an emphasis in creative nonfiction. She is co-founder and managing director of scribes @ ASU, a creative writing club at Arizona State University, as well as a contributing writer for an online publisher. Currently, she is working on a collection of personal essays, and gaining a better working knowledge of social/networking media, including blogging.

Jason Wright

Jason Wright is the poetry editor for Issue 6 and the web design editor for both Issue 7 and Issue 8. He is an ASU senior majoring in Creative Writing. He is also a self-taught web developer and currently helps maintain multiple websites originating around his hometown in Phoenix, Arizona such as ByKyli.com, Bidjudge.com, and SyCara.com. While finding balance between intricate expression through poetry and hard-coded website and computer manipulation, he flourishes when given the opportunity to utilize both.

Katie McCoach

Katie McCoach is the nonfiction editor for Issue 6. She is in her senior year at Arizona State University majoring in Communications and Creative Writing with a focus in Fiction. She recently spent a year writing news articles for a women's health website, AskMyOBGYN.com, had a non-fiction piece published in the April '10 Issue of Kalliope - an online publication at Arizona State University-, and currently writes for a volunteer newsletter at her part-time job in short sales. Katie hopes to move to L.A. after graduation, write a collection of short stories called Living by Butterflies, and begin writing her grandmothers biography. This is Katie's first semester with Superstition Review.

Kimberly Singleton

Kimberly Singleton is the nonfiction editor for Issue 5 and the interview coordinator for Issue 6. She is in her junior year at ASU as well as a student of Barrett, the Honors College at ASU's West campus. After completing her undergraduate studies in English and Public Relations, Kimberly would like to attend graduate school for an interdisciplinary emphasis in English studies, encompassing Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Literature. This past June, Kimberly had an opportunity to present a paper that exemplified her interests in this interdisciplinary approach at Duquesne University's Communication Ethics Conference. Kimberly currently tutors at the ASU West Writing Center and is the assistant to the editor for an academic book series through Purdue Press.

Kylie Powell

Kylie Powell is the advertising coordinator for Issue 6. She is currently a junior at Arizona State University where she is studying Literature, Writing, and Film. This is her first semester working with Superstition Review. She is an active employee through ASU's campus recreation department where she helps with advertising and also does writing for their monthly newsletter. Kylie someday hopes to be a film critic and fiction writer.

Madeline Beach

Madeline Beach is the solicitation coordinator for Issue 5 and content coordinator for Issue 6. She is currently completing her final semester hours to earn the designation of a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. At this time, Madeline is professionally working as a technical writer and enjoys seeing the worlds of technology and literacy work together in tandem, in both professional and academic settings. She enjoys being closely involved with the ever-growing revolution of online publishing.

Maria Holguin

Maria Holguin is the interview editor for Issue 6. She is in her fourth year at ASU studying English literature and minoring in Transborder Chicano/a & Latina/o Studies. Along with writing, she enjoys reading memoirs, nonfiction and Chicano literature. Upon graduation, she hopes to pursue a career writing documentary articles for magazines. This is her first semester with Superstition Review.

Maria Isabel Alvarez

Maria Isabel Alvarez is the fiction editor for Issue 6. She is an English Literature senior with a passion for the craft of creative writing. She has worked previously at an editorial internship at a local magazine, which granted her the opportunity to write three feature-length articles for three separate publications. She aspires to attend NYU's Creative Writing program post-graduation in order to pursue creative writing in conjunction with English literature.

Mary Richardson

Mary Richardson is the reading coordinator for Issue 6. She is a sophomore at Arizona Student University and is a student of the Barrett Honors College. She is pursuing a concurrent major in English Literature and European History. She is also a Fiction Reviewer for ASU's Lux Literary Magazine. Her career aspirations are to work in editing/publishing or to be a professor. She greatly looks forward to learning more about the literary and academic fields.

Rebecca Glenn

Rebecca Glenn is the art editor for Issue 6. She is a senior at ASU, majoring in English Literature. She is looking forward to the challenge of contributing to the publishing process at Superstition Review. Her experiences in upper-division class work have inspired and encouraged her to consider a career in publishing. She is thrilled to have an opportunity to experience the field first-hand through Superstition Review.

Sarah Stevenson

Sarah Stevenson is the fiction editor for Issue 6. She is in her senior year at Arizona State University majoring in Creative Writing. She is currently working on her Honor's Thesis Project, writing and illustrating a children's book. This is Sarah's first semester at Superstition Review.

Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/06/2012 - 13:07