In addition to serving as editor of The Gettysburg Review, Peter Stitt is a full professor in the Department of English at Gettysburg College. He earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina in 1970 and subsequently taught at Middlebury College and University of Houston before coming to Gettysburg. He is a critic of contemporary literature and was for eleven years the regular poetry reviewer for the Georgia Review. As editor of The Gettysburg Review, he was the first recipient of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, the Ohio Review, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, the Southern Review, and other journals. His latest book is Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets (University of Iowa Press, 1997). He is also the author of The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets (University of Georgia Press, 1986).

Mark Drew, our assistant editor, earned an AA at Elgin Community College, a BA at Knox College, and an MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama, where he received an Academy of American Poets Prize, served first as the managing editor, then the editor of the Black Warrior Review (1993–95), and taught American literature and creative writing. A native of Illinois and a now happy fan of the White Sox, he has had poems appear in The Gettysburg Review, Lament, the Mankato Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has also published a limited-edition, letterpress chapbook titled Uncertainties.

Kim Dana Kupperman, our managing editor, came to Gettysburg from downeast Maine, where she worked as a journalist, and then as a writer, publicist, and educator for community and nonprofit organizations. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Baltimore Review, Best American Essays 2006, Brevity, the Cimarron Review, Hotel Amerika, ISLE, the Louisville Review, the Maine Scholar, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from the journal Quarter After Eight, and the first-place winner of the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing.

Kris Koontz is the administrative assistant to The Gettysburg Review. She has worked, in various positions and department, at Gettysburg College for eighteen years and recently completed her BA in sociology and women’s studies. She is a lifelong resident of Gettysburg.

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