About Fiddleblack
Fiddleblack ltd is unaffiliated with any academic institution. We have a stayed interest in literature, and we see to it that all our efforts as a company serve to propagate this interest. While Fiddleblack’s corporate nature is a private one, we do our best to educate writers and readers about our practices, beliefs and continual intentions.
We’re first a publisher. We review and edit fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, and the work we publish is almost exclusively available directly through this website, thus rendering us a distributor and marketer as well. Further, Fiddleblack is an essential participant in whatever collective effort modern literary culture has in encouraging and developing independent literature and its philosophical inquiries into self and place.
For more information about what we do, please review our mission and frequently asked questions pages. Members of the media (or inquiring minds) should feel free to contact Jason Cook at editor@fiddleblack.org for more information on our authors, interview opportunities, press, reviews or otherwise.
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Jason Cook is Fiddleblack’s founding editor and publisher, while Melissa Lewis is Fiddleblack’s associate editor. Joel Milani acts as an assistant editor, aiding Fiddleblack with submissions overflow.
Karin Anderson is a contributing editor. Karin has a Ph.D. in creative writing and poststructuralist theory from the University of Utah. She is a professor of English at Utah Valley University. Her writing has appeared in Sunstone, Dialogue, Western Humanities Review, American Literary Review and other journals.
John McManus is a contributing editor. John is the author of three widely praised books of fiction: the novel Bitter Milk and the short story collections Born on a Train and Stop Breakin Down. In 2000, he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Tin House and other journals. John teaches at the MFA creative writing programs at Old Dominion University and Goddard College.
Michael Walsh is a contributing editor. Michael is the author of The Dirt Riddles, winner of the Miller Williams Prize in Poetry, as well as the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His chapbooks include Adam Walking the Garden and Sleepwalks. His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chattahoochee Review, DIAGRAM, New York Quarterly and other journals.