Poetica Publishing Editors
Michal Mahgerefteh: Managing Editor

Michal (Mitak) Mahgerefteh is an award-winning artist and poet from Norfolk, Virginia. Michal is The Poetry Society of Virginia student contest judge (2013-) and book award chair (2015). Since 2013, Michal is The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award chair and Committee Member (to learn more about the award please visit www.PoeticaMagazine.com). She is the author of four poetry collections: Field of Harps (2016); Sipping Memories: A Poetic Journal to Morocco (two editions released in 2014 and 2016 ); What's Left Behind (2015); In My Bustan (2009). Her fifth and sixth poetry chapbooks, Solely Entwined and FishMoon, forthcoming in 2021. Michal is an active member of an international virtual Memoir Writer's Group, sharing current works and discussing the process of writing. Visit: www.Mitak-Art.com
David King: Proofreader

Daniel L. Pearlman: Editor and Advisor

Daniel L. Pearlman is a native of Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA. He earned his BA in English from the University of Maryland and MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. He is a twenty-year veteran English teacher/professor, mostly at Norfolk State. Pearlman has also taught at H.B. Woodlawn High School in Arlington, VA, and the Muse Writers Center, and has directed writing workshops for the Poetry Society of Virginia as well as the Virginia Beach Public Library. Under his pen name, Daniel Pravda, his poetry has appeared in over forty journals, including Poetica, American Dissident, Blue Collar Review, Cedar Creek Review, Dead Mule, Hamilton Stone Review, PoetrySuperHighway, Solo Novo, Vine Leaves, and Virginia Literary Journal. His first book of poetry, A Bird in the Hand Is a Dumb Bird, was published in 2011, and he has edited text books for Kendall Hunt Publishing, including Introduction to World Literature, Rites of Passage. Pearlman has served as judge for PSV's annual student contest for years and more recently for Poetica's Rosenberg Prize. Pearlman has performed hundreds of readings, anywhere from universities to dim bars. He also fronts a rock band called The Dunes, which has released four albums, most recently Making Bad Decisions, in 2017. The band has sold in excess of 40,000 songs online and played gigs in New York, Washington, DC, Hatteras, NC, and all over Virginia. Lastly, Pearlman enjoys producing and promoting art-based benefit shows, including two in 2016: Heartsongs, a music benefit for the American Heart Association, and Food From Thought, a poetry benefit for the Foodbank.
Alan Toltzis: 2020 Mizmor Anthology Visiting Editor / Proofreader

Alan Toltzis is the author of 49 Aspects of Human Emotion (Poetica) and The Last ommandment (Poetica). A two-time Pushcart nominee, he has published in numerous print and online journals including, Grey Sparrow, The Wax Paper, Hummingbird, IthacaLit, North of Oxford, and Poetry NI. He also serves as a Contributing Editor for The Saturday Poetry Series in As It Ought to Be Magazine. Find him online at alantoltzis.com and follow him @ToltzisAlan.
Link for book purchases: https://www.alantoltzis.com/purchase-a-copy
Natalie Rose: Typesetting
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Natalie Rose earned BA in Finance from Old Dominion University School of Business. She is the CEO of SUN Credit Financial and a senior accountant at Capital Investments. Rose's passion is animal rights, nature photography, making art using oyster shells, world travel, pottery, and family time. We welcome Rose as our new typesetting specialist: converting hand written manuscripts to digital files. Natalie lives in Virginia by the tranquil waters and gorgeous sunsets of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia.