ABOUT

Editor & Proprietor

H. Buchanan, M.A., is an award-winning publisher, editor and consultant. A former research fellow for the National Institutes of Health in cognitive science, she is actively involved with studying the relationship between writing and culture. She has presented at conferences such as the Society for the Study of Midwest Literature, Midwest MLA, Gwendolyn Brooks Conference, Textbook & Academic Authors Association, Liberal Arts Network Conference, the Motown Writers Conference, and the Miami University Poetry Conference. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies and Lansing Community College. 

Ms. Buchanan is a State Officer for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and a past Vice-President of the American Business Women's Association (Ambassador Tri-County Chapter). She is a member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. She retired as Executive Director of the Detroit Writer's Guild (a national nonprofit) to devote herself full-time to this website. As a writer for numerous organizations, Ms. Buchanan considers writing for the U.S./South Africa Convocations one of the bright spots of her career.  As an instructor, Ms. Buchanan consults with organizations such as the Coleman A. Young Foundation (CAYF). 

 

Poetry Editor

Randall Horton is a former recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. His poetry manuscript The Definition of Place was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Book Award and was published in their Editor’s Select Series in 2006.  

His second book The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street is forthcoming in September of 2009 with Main Street as well. Randall is the current editor of Reverie: Midwest African American Literature and co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDs from the Black Diaspora (Third World Press, 2007).  

He is also the editor of four children anthologies. He received his undergraduate education at both Howard University and The University of the District of Columbia (B.A. English). He has a MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Chicago State University and a PhD in Creative Writing at SUNY Albany and a Cave Canem fellow.  

Most recently his poems, fiction and nonfiction appear in the following anthologies and journals: Motif: Writing by Ear, Mosaic, Black Renaissance, Crab Orchard Review and The Red Clay Review.