Prime Number Magazine
is a publication of
Press 53
PO Box 30314,
Winston-Salem NC 27130
Prime Number Magazine is a publication of Press 53, PO Box 30314, Winston-Salem, NC 27130
Staff
Editor:Clifford Garstang is the author of the linked short story collection, In an Uncharted Country (Press 53, 2009), which won an IPPY Gold Medal for Best Fiction in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Recent work has appeared in Cream City Review, Los Angeles Review, and The Tampa Review. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In addition to his MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, he has a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, an MA in English and a JD from Indiana University, and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A former international lawyer with one of the largest law firms in the United States and with the World Bank, he now lives and writes in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Visit his blog at http://perpetualfolly.blogspot.com or his website: http://cliffordgarstang.com.
Poetry Editor:Valerie Nieman worked for three decades as a journalist while honing her skills as a poet and fiction writer. Her third novel, Blood Clay, set in Piedmont North Carolina, will appear in fall 2010 from Press 53. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Fidelities (West Virginia University Press), and a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake (Press 53). She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship in poetry, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. A graduate of West Virginia University and the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte, she teaches writing at N.C. A&T State University and is a regular workshop leader at the John C. Campbell Folk School and the North Carolina Writers Network. Visit her blog at http://worldwright.blogspot.com/ and her website at http://www.valnieman.com/.
Publisher: Kevin Morgan Watson is the founding editor of Press 53, an independent literary publishing house in Winston-Salem, NC. As a publisher and editor, Kevin has worked with writers ranging from newly published authors to winners of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. His affiliation with Prime Number Magazine is solely as publisher, leaving all editorial decisions to the editors.
Non-fiction Editor: Tracy Crow is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Eyes Right, Confessions from a Woman Marine (University of Nebraska Press, April 2012), in which she chronicles her life as a Marine journalist during the groundbreaking 1980s. Her literary nonfiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Puerto del Sol, Literary Mama, and others, and has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. Her short story, “Natural Selection,” based on events from her life as a Marine, has been anthologized in the Press 53 collection, Home of the Brave (2009). She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. As assistant professor of creative writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, she teaches introductory and advanced journalism, as well as creative nonfiction, and advises the award-winning, nationally recognized student newspaper, The Current. Visit Tracy’s blog at www.writingformercy.blogspot.com.
