Sonya C. Brown, Assistant Editor of Glint, works in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and teaches classes at the University of Maryland Global Campus. She has published poems at Unlost and Arsenic Lobster. She lives in Maryland with her family, three dogs, two cats, and an ever-expanding flock of chickens and alter egos.
Nena Callaghan has a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Spanish. Her work is heavily influenced by her Caribbean roots and has appeared in The Red Line Magazine, Museo de la Palabra, The Caribbean Writer, a publication of the University of the Virgin Islands, and others. She lives in Fayetteville, NC, where she continues to write and tend garden.
Jeffrey G. Davis interned with Glint Literary Journal in Summer, 2023. He is a recent graduate of Fayetteville State University.
In addition to serving as managing editor and web designer for Glint, Brenda Mann Hammack teaches folklore, modern poetry, women’s literature, digital storytelling, and creative writing at Fayetteville State University where she also serves as coordinator for the concentration in Creative and Professional Writing. She has published critical articles on feral girls, degenerate scholars, and human vampires. Her most recent essay (“Sicker Ever After: The Invalid as Vampire in Fiction by Arabella Kenealy and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman”) appeared in The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Routledge) in 2022. Her poetry, fiction, and digital art can be found in various journals, including Menacing Hedge, The Fabulist, Feral, The London Reader, The Hunger, Anthropoid, NILVX, Rhino, A capella Zoo, and 3Elements Literary Review. A novella, Humbug: A Neo-Victorian Fantasy in Verse, was published in 2013.
Eric Hyman is a professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He recently published an article on the affinity between chess problems and Nabokov’s short fiction. His mantras come from Oscar Wilde: “Life imitates Art,” “All Art is a Lie,” and therefore . . .
Micki Nyman is Professor of English at Fayetteville State University where she teaches writing, theory, British literature, and Humanities. Her research centers primarily on the intersection of subjectivity and culture in literature and film. Once a year, to replenish her spirit, Micki participates in a nine-day Sundance ceremony in the White Mountains of Arizona.
Maria Orban earned her Ph.D. in Modernity and Theory/American Literature from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Her areas of interest include Native American fiction, postmodernism, Shakespeare, and ethnic women writers. She teaches American literature, World literature, Shakespeare, and Native American fiction (whenever she gets a chance) at Fayetteville State University where she also serves as the English department online education coordinator. She co-edited Charles W. Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer, winner of the Chesnutt Association’s Sylvia Lyons Render Award for outstanding contribution to scholarship on the life and works of Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and included in the CHOICE e-collection for African-American Studies. Her work was published in The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, and in journals like American Indian Culture and Research Journal, European Review of Native American Studies, and World Literature Today.
Raymond Summerville earned an MA in English and African American literature from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in folklore, oral tradition, and culture from The University of Missouri–Columbia. His research interests include Diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, African American literature, American history, and all subjects related to folkloristics including African American folklore and paremiology. His book Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement (May 2024) examines cultural influences of several important civil rights figures including Ida B. Wells, Charles W. Chesnutt, A. Philip Randolph, Septima P. Clark, Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and others. His work also appears in the anthology Gunlore: Firearms, Folklore, and Communities, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric Eliason (August 2024). Both books were published by the University of Mississippi Press.
Dean Swinford is Professor of English at Fayetteville State University. His newest novel, Goat Song Sacrifice (Atlatl, 2017), is the second part in the Death Metal Epic series. The series explores heavy metal culture and has been featured in metal magazines such as Decibel and Terrorizer. His recent scholarship has appeared in Studies in Medievalism, Modern Philology, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Medieval Perspectives, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
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