River Styx Staff

Editor: Richard Newman
Managing Editor: Shanie Latham
Founding Editor: Michael Castro
Associate Editors: Lisa Ampleman and Catherine Tufariello
Contributing Editors: James Arthur, Cheryl Bateman, Kathleen Beardsell, Joe Betz, Derek Bremer, Alison Carrick, Amy Debrecht, Juliane Dharna, Julie Dill, Aaron Johnson, Joanne Lowery, Adrian Matejka, Sheila Misselhorn, Benjamin Moeller-Gaa, Kara Moyer, Chris Portell, Chelsea Rathburn, Shannon Robinson, Steven D. Schroeder, and Tanya Yatzeck
River Styx at Duff's Co-Director: Adrian Matejka and Richard Newman
Design: Focus Graphics
Website Manager: Patti Harvath
Business Manager: Betty Welch
Interns: Madeleine Morgan Fentress, Stephanie Nickerson, Jessica Rogen, Elizabeth Swoboda, and Andrea Wagner
Office Help: Natalie Summers Newman
Technical Assistance: George Landau

River Styx Board Members

Richard Newman has served as River Styx editor for 15 years.  He is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009) and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005).  He is also the author of several poetry chapbooks, including 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times (Firecracker Press/Snark Publishing, 2007) and Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets! (Snark Publishing, 2005).  His poems have recently appeared in Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Measure, Poetry Daily, Unsplendid, Verse Daily, and many other periodicals and anthologies.  He teaches poetry and literature at St. Louis Community College and co-directs the River Styx at Duff's reading series.   

Shanie Latham (Managing Editor) joined River Styx as Managing Editor in July 2009.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Studies from the University of Houston Clear Lake and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She previously worked as an Assistant Editor for Crab Orchard Review and as a Reporter and Assistant Editor for The National Jurist.  For several years she also picked up valuable experience and fantastic stories working as Print Production Manager for National American Miss, a pageant system for girls.  Shanie was a finalist for The Kennesaw Review's 2007 Don Russ Poetry Prize and for Compass Rose's 2007-2008 Parnell Poetry Prize. She also was a finalist in Glimmer Train's April 2008 Family Matters short story contest as well as their August 2009 Short Story Award for New Writers.

Michael Castro and his friends started River Styx in the late sixties. He recently stepped down as the director of the River Styx at Duff's Reading Series, but continues on the board. His two newest books are Human Rites and Swimming in the Grown: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry (co-translated by Gabor G. Gyukica), both on Neshul Press.

Lisa Ampleman received her MFA from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where she won the Virginia Downs award. Her poems have appeared in Phoebe, So to Speak, Folio, Center, and Natural Bridge. She teaches at Fontbonne University and serves as a poetry editor for River Styx.

Catherine Tufariello's first full-length collection, Keeping My Name (Texas Tech UP), won the Walt McDonald First-Book Award in Poetry and was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2004.  It was also a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and won the 2006 Poets' Prize.  Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Dark Horse, and Poetry, as well as many anthologies, including Longman literature anthologies, The POETRY Anthology: 1912-2002, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets.  She lives with her husband and daughter in Valparaiso, Indiana.

James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares. He has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize, as well as residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sacatar Foundation. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.

Julie Dill works in publishing by day and volunteers with StudioSTL and River Styx by night. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 52nd City, St. Louis Magazine, Sou'wester Magazine, and an anthology of St. Louis poets due out next year. Julie Dill is currently working on her first novel, and she is also the director of the Hungry Young Poets summer reading series.

Chelsea Rathburn's first full-length collection of poetry, The Shifting Line, won the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Hudson Review, Pleiades, Poetry, and other journals.

Shannon Robinson's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Gargoyle, Sou'wester, and Whiskey Island. Her short story "Everyone Has a Tell" received the 2009 Crab Creek Review Editors' Prize. She is currently in her first year of an MFA in fiction at Washington University. She lives in Saint Louis with her husband (poet James Arthur) and a cat (Trixie).

Steven D. Schroeder's first book of poetry, Torched Verse Ends, appeared in 2009 from BlazeVOX. His poems are available or forthcoming from New England Review, The Journal, Indiana Review, The Laurel Review, and Verse Daily. He edits the online poetry journal Anti- and works as a Certified Professional Resume Writer.

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books).  His second book, Mixology, was selected as a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and will appear in the fall of 2009.  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, and many other periodicals and anthologies.  He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.