Editors

I have written award-winning arts journalism for Southwest Contemporary and served in editorial capacities for DARIA Art Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review, and the Santa Fe Writers Project. In 2026, I co-founded The Good Light Editors.

My specialties include identifying a work's main idea and target audience, offering direct and honest feedback to focus and elevate the work. I help writers deepen their research and concepts; pinpoint the central claim; achieve clarity, concision, and continuity; develop a brand and social media presence; and pursue publication.

Drawing from years of experience as a higher education specialist, I also provide thesis and dissertation editing, college application feedback, and biography development and ghostwriting.

In my private life, I dote on my cat to an embarrassing extent, partake in the bitter disappointments and small triumphs of desert gardening, and get my money's worth from my Criterion film-streaming service.

Find a list of books I have edited.

You can also learn more about me from my website, subscribe to my Substack, or follow my IG, @gina.yo.gina.

I look forward to cheerleading your vision, amplifying your voice, and getting your writing out into the world!

Gina offers complimentary 15-minute consultations. Email her to schedule a call and discuss your project.

gina.pugliese@pm.me

Starting with a gay sex poem published in secret when I was sixteen, over eighty pieces of my fiction, poetry, and memoir have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Cleaver, escarp, The Tishman Review, Gone Lawn, Cease, Cows and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. I won Fictionade Magazine's 2012 250-Word Short Story Contest, was awarded fourth place in the 2016 Larry Brown Short Story Award by Pithead Chapel, attended Tin House for Fiction in 2020, and I was longlisted for the Flash Fiction Open Contest by Fractured Lit in 2023. I've also had journalism and book reviews published, and I've sold handmade chapbooks of my writing at art shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Originally from Virginia's Blue Ridge Valley, I completed my MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in 2018. I have taught English, creative writing, and technical writing, as well as courses in marketing, for over 15 years at the college level. I've worked at universities, private colleges, religious colleges, community colleges, and I've taught dual-enrollment classes for high school students, granting me a wide range of experiences that inform every interaction I have with my diverse clients. I aim to be sensitive about all my clients' projects, and approach new perspectives and information with curiosity before judgement.

I served as Managing Editor for Briery Creek Press for 2008 and 2009, where I edited, designed, and marketed The Dos Passos Review and the winning manuscripts for The Liam Rector Chapbook Prize for Poetry. I have since served as an editor on several literary magazines, most notably as Fiction Editor for the Santa Fe Literary Review since 2017, which I am still proud to do. I have also served as a writing coach, tutor, literary event coordinator, bookseller, and director of community workshop programs for creative writing. I currently teach in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I also make visual art and host the free online reading series The Writing Generation.

You can see some of my published writing on my website, austineichelberger.com. You can also follow me on Instagram @austinsively.

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austin.eichelberger@gmail.com

I've been an arts writer and editor for more than a decade, and in that time, my work has appeared in Playboy, Hyperallergic, and numerous local, regional, and national journals; I've also collaborated with local galleries (516 Arts, Friends of the Orphan Signs) as well as birds + Richard in Berlin, Germany, on interpretive essays for exhibition catalogs. I've been writing creative nonfiction for even longer, and my work has appeared in Ploughshares; I was also granted an Urban Enhancement Trust Fund grant in 2023 to work on a novella in this genre about ghosts, grief, and memory.

I've always had an interest in the natural world, which led me to more than 5 years of work in avian conservation, where I developed a science writing and editing practice that complements my arts writing. I find that both disciplines attempt to grapple with—and sometimes answer—very complex questions. I'm particularly interested in where science and innovation bump up against our daily lives, and I have published articles in this vein in Undark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and The Revelator (Center for Biological Diversity). I've also ghostwritten articles for TechCrunch. For two years, I co-edited a journal of nature writing called Slow Death on Saddleback.

I've edited books for the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the City of Albuquerque. I've also contributed editing services to numerous nonprofits, including the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (Georgia), and Gift of Life (Texas). I currently work with Clarion West (Washington), a nonprofit that supports underrepresented voices in speculative fiction.

I have been on-staff as the arts & lit editor at Albuquerque's former alt weekly, the Alibi; managing editor at arts journal Southwest Contemporary; and senior editor at conservation nonprofit Hawks Aloft. I currently serve on the Industry and Academic Advisory Team for the University of New Mexico's Technical and Professional Writing Program. In 2025, I earned a certification in audio description (AD) for blind and low-vision audiences, which has extended and challenged my writing practice.

I'm particularly interested in helping individual writers, as well as groups and organizations, develop and strengthen their long-form nonfiction projects.

You can read some of my published work on my website.

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mgrimaso@gmail.com

In 2019 and 2020, his acclaimed six-part, 30 story series on the New Mexico foster care and child welfare systems for Youth Today was also published by the Santa Fe New Mexican, Las Cruces Sun-News, Carlsbad Current-Argus and Gallup Independent. In 2013, his investigation into two crumbling dams in Houston was awarded first place for Best Print News/Feature Story in the Texas statewide Lone Star Awards competition. He's a former staff writer for Phoenix New Times and Houston Press, and the previous news editor for Southwest Contemporary. Steve has also contributed reporting to the New York Times and freelanced for Searchlight New Mexico.

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steve.g.jansen@gmail.com

Ro began her career editing poetry magazines. At The Denver Post, she worked as copy editor, copy chief and business editor. After a stint in magazine freelance, she became editor and publisher of Viva Colorado, turning a Spanish print weekly into an award-winning bilingual digital news source with international reach. Since, she's written and edited everything from social media content to inauguration speeches, press releases to short stories. She loves all things fiction. Editing specialties include all of the above plus developing long-form projects or polishing admissions essays.

To book a free 15-minute consultation with Rowena Alegria, visit her website rowenaalegria.com

I'm a poet, editor, educator, and writing advocate who believes that every piece of writing—whether poem, dissertation, personal essay, or technical document—holds a story that deserves to be shaped with care, clarity, and intention. My editing focuses on helping writers find and trust their voice while shaping language into something vivid, precise, and deeply human.

With more than a decade of experience, I've been a poetry editor for the Santa Fe Literary Review, a one-on-one learning specialist, and a tutor in creative and academic writing. I've worked with writers at every stage: from first-time storytellers learning how to put vulnerability on the page to seasoned writers refining manuscripts for publication. I teach and edit across all levels of creative analysis, academic and personal essays, and technical writing, with special emphasis on poetry manuscripts, theses, and dissertations.

Originally from Mississippi and Virginia, I currently live in New Mexico where I serve as a Creative Writing Assistant Professor and English Coordinator at Institute of American Indian Arts. I hold a BFA and MFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in poetry and creative nonfiction. I approach editing as a collaborative, imaginative process—not simply correcting grammar but using grammar as an art form that strengthens rhythm, clarity, imagery, and emotional resonance.

My own writing explores motherhood, pregnancy, the body, grief, place, medical trauma, and personal narratives that exist within inherited histories and lived vulnerability. These themes deeply inform the way I work with others: with curiosity and attention to the emotional core of a piece. My work has been published in Poetry, Inverted Syntax, Santa Fe Literary Review, among others; I am the winner of the Santa Fe Accolades Poetry Contest 2017, The Roadrunner Review Poetry Prize 2022, a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize finalist for The Georgia Review. In my free time, I enjoy sleeping in, spending time with my cats, and growing more tomatoes and marigolds than any one person should. When I'm not in my garden, you can usually find me wandering the bosque or eating all the tacos with my partner and kiddo.

Whether you're shaping a poem, revising a dissertation, building confidence in academic writing, or trying to capture the exact feeling living inside your work, I'm passionate about helping you create language that is honest, powerful, and unmistakably your own.

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serenajeanrodriguez@gmail.com