The Responsibilities of Editors

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What is the role of an editor during a time of increasing censorship? This panel will focus squarely on the idea of an editor’s role/responsibility and how editors are meeting these challenges. In this free-flowing conversation between people who know the business, panelists will share experiences, challenges, and opportunities for publications today. This panel will be moderated by Mark Neely, senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. 

About the panelists

Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, which won the National Poetry Series Prize and was listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, POETRY Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. She lives in Evansville, Indiana, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. 

Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb, and his third book, Ticker, won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for an Indiana Authors Award. His awards include a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award for Four of a Kind. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He teaches courses in creative writing, poetry writing, literary editing, and publishing. He is a senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. 

Natalie Solmer was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a granddaughter of Polish and German immigrants. She worked in the field of horticulture for many years, including 13 years as a grocery store florist, before becoming a professor of English and creative writing. She teaches at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis and is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Indianapolis Review. Her work has been published in journals such as North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, Mom Egg Review, and Tab Poetry Journal. Her debut book of poems, Water Castle, was published by Kelsay Books in 2024. You can find her poems, visual poetry, and visual art at www.nataliesolmer.com. 

Santiago Valencia is a Mexican poet, editor, and spiritual worker. They received a BA in English literature and creative writing from Reed College, where their poetry was recognized by the Academy of American Poets. Their work develops a poetics of ritual and gnosis to explore queer embodiment, fractured ancestries, faith and mysticism, soul loss and retrieval, dreams, and death. They believe language is an alchemical tool for connecting with the sacred all around and within us, and for recovering lost enchantment. A Tin House Workshop and SAFTA alum, Santi is an editor-at-large for Nightboat Books.