WSR Editors
Executive/Managing Editor: Meghan Maloney-Vinz
Contributing Creative Nonfiction Editor: Jax Connelly
Contributing Fiction Editor: Max Delsohn
Contributing Poetry Editor: Mai Der Vang
Managing Editor: Elizabeth Carls
They are currently working with submissions, solicitations, and eventually selections, edits, and publication.
Meghan Maloney-Vinz
EXECUTIVE/MANAGING EDITOR
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Meghan Maloney-Vinz first served as a poetry editorial board member for W~SR over 15 years ago when she was an MFA student in the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University. Soon after, she was hired as W~SR‘s first and so far only, managing editor and dedicated employee. Meghan acquired Mary Rockcastle’s role as executive editor in 2020 upon Mary’s retirement from the position.
Aside from her work with the Creative Writing Programs and its other associated literary journals (rock, paper, scissors, and Runestone), Meghan is also managing editor of the Under Review, an online literary journal with a sports slant. She is also founding member and project manager for a small book arts press, broadcraft press. Meghan hails from a small town in southeastern Wisconsin and now lives in cozy St. Paul, MN with her wife and two children.
Jax Connelly
CONTRIBUTING CREATIVE NONFICTION EDITOR
Jax Connelly (they/she) is the author of We Have Attempted to Contact You and Have Failed on Several Occasions, winner of the 2024 Quill Prose Award at Red Hen Press and forthcoming in 2027. The essay collection, which explores the intersections of queer identity, unstable bodies, and mental illness, was also a finalist for AWP’s 2025 Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction under a different title.
Four of Connelly’s essays have received Best American Essays Notables, and they’ve been a winner or finalist in prose contests at Prairie Schooner, Nowhere, The Pinch, The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, New Letters, CutBank, and Black Warrior Review, among others. Her work has also appeared in publications like The Georgia Review, River Teeth, The Rumpus, and [PANK]. They hold an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and a day job in marketing, and they currently live in Chicago with their partner and their husky-shepherd mix, Bruno.
Max Delsohn
CONTRIBUTING FICTION EDITOR
Max Delsohn is the author of Crawl (Graywolf Press, 2025), a short story collection about trans men living in 2010s Seattle. Crawl was named a best book of the year by Vulture, Them, Electric Literature, Debutiful, and Chicago Review of Books, as well as a November Indie Next List pick. His short fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, Triangle House, Lit Hub, and Nat. Brut, among other places. He received his MFA degree from Syracuse University and now lives in Los Angeles.
Mai Der Vang
CONTRIBUTING POETRY EDITOR
Mai Der Vang is the author of Primordial (Graywolf Press, 2025), Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her honors include the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowship, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State and recently served as the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University.
Elizabeth Carls
MANAGING EDITOR
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Elizabeth is an award winning poet and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slag Glass City, River Teeth, Split Rock Review, Great River Review, Under the Sun Literary Magazine, and The Water~Stone Review. Her poetry has been anthologized by St. Paul Almanac and she is the two-time recipient of the Deborah Keenan Poetry Prize. In the editorial space, she served as the Assistant Editor of Creative Nonfiction for Water~Stone Review, as well as Editor of Creative Nonfiction for Redbird Chapbooks. She reads and writes in St. Paul, MN.