Consulting Editor
Jalina Mhyana, a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, won the Dr. Sue Holman Travel Grant for her 
art history essay at the University of Oxford, which subsidized her research on superstition and talismans in Vienna. Mhyana is the author of five volumes of lyric essays and poems, one of which was a finalist in the Pudding House Publications contest. Her work appears in Five Points, The Southeast Review, The Cincinnati Review, Chautauqua, Lunch Ticket, ROOM, CutBank and others. Her creative nonfiction has won Best of Issue, her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and her poetry was chosen to represent Shadow Day – a commemoration of Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A graduate of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars, Mhyana worked as founding editor of Rock Salt Plum Review and as a coumnist for the Herald Union in Germany. She curated the Ekphrasis poetry reading series at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England and moderated literary events and panels at St Marks’ Cultural Center in Florence, Italy. In her capacity as a developmental editor and ghostwriter, Mhyana has worked for The United Nations, the Vermont Historical Society, the Volkskunst Museum, Career Protocol, and many magazines and individuals. A member of the Heidelberg, London, Florence and Paris writers’ groups, Jalina has lived overseas for most of her life. She currently spends her time between the Berkshires and her home in France, in a fixer-upper built onto the village’s medieval fortifications dating from the Hundred Years’ War — where neighbors leave fruit and eggs on the front steps and the limestone walls still bear 300 year-old “witch’s marks” for protection from evil spirits.