Serving House Books is a project of Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy , one of several collaborations that include Worldvoices chapbooks, The Literary Explorer, and Writers on the Job on Web Del Sol. They are contributing editors to Serving House Journal and faculty members in Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA in Creative Writing program.

They are interviewed online at Examiner.com: Cummins and Kennedy.

Information about them and their writing may be found on their websites: www.thomasekennedy.com www.waltercummins.com

Senior Editor

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro was born in Goa, when it was Portuguese India, but began his writing and editing career in Bombay, where he was by turns Assistant Editor and Literary Editor at a national newspaper and magazine, and the first Indian to be copy chief at J. Walter Thompson. He has edited more than thirty full length book manuscripts for the Free Press and other New York publishers, including such significant works as Jean Claude Brief’s Beyond Piaget: A Philosophical Psychology; Stephen Toulmin’s Cosmopolis, The Hidden Agenda of Modernity; Amitai Etzioni’s The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics, and Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.’s Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. His debut novel, Tivolem, was awarded Milkweed’s National Fiction Prize, and picked by Booklist as one of the twenty notable first novels of 1998. His short stories have appeared in the Iowa, North American, and Literary Reviews, as well as in publications in his native India. A member of American Mensa, Victor has also published several books on music, and translated from the French twenty poems by Maeterlinck, Verlaine, and others that had been set to music by Chausson. Parts of a memoir have appeared in Parts of Asia (Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, 17/18, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth) and elsewhere. He has just completed his second novel, The Fires of Gangapur. Victor has been associated with Fairleigh Dickinson University’s online creative writing MFA program since 2002.

Associate Editors

Renée Ashley is the author of four volumes of poetry (Salt—Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Univ. of Wisconsin Press; The Various Reasons of Light—inaugural volume of Avocet Press Inc poetry series; The Revisionist’s Dream; and Basic Heart—X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press) as well as two chapbooks and a novel, Someplace Like This. She is a poetry editor of The Literary Review and on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s two low-residency graduate programs, the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the MA Program in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators.

Alison Cummins has been a public relations consultant for major corporations. She has written speeches for executives and feature articles, edited publications, and worked in media relations.

Linda Lappin, poet, novelist, essayist, and literary translator, holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels: The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, 2004) and Katherine’s Wish (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2008) and has published essays, poems, and short fiction in numerous US and European journals. She is contributing international fiction editor to Del Sol Review. Her current project is The Brotherhood of Miguel, a tale of initiation and spiritual adventure set in contemporary Italy. Her website is www.lindalappin.net.

Susan Tekulve’s Savage Pilgrims, a collection of stories and poems, was published by Serving House Books and her short fiction collection, My Mother’s War Stories, by Winnow Press (Austin, Texas). Her nonfiction, stories and poems have appeared in Shenandoah, New Letters, Best New Writing 2007, The Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, Webdelsol, Black Warrior Review and The Kansas City Star. She has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. An associate professor of English at Converse College in South Carolina, she is completing a novel.

Assistant Editor

Rosalie Herion has worked as Managing Editor at Macmillan Publishing Company and Supervisory Editor at Prentice-Hall and operated a freelance book production business. She has published with Perigee, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is working on a linked story collection and a novel in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Editorial Readers

Kimberlee Gerstmann is a graduate of FDU’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. While not working on her thesis, she can be found chasing her one-year-old grandson around the house, creating art or leading writing workshops. She has published poems and short fiction and also enjoyed writing occasional human interest articles for her local paper. She has been an editor for Moondance Publications and is currently a reader for The Literary Review.

Lauren Guastella is a graduate student at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she is pursuing her Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In her writing—both academic and creative—Lauren seeks to explore the world around her. Lauren is also a reader for Fairleigh Dickinson University's publication, The Literary Review.

Jerisha Gordon is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where she is completing an MFA in creative writing. She lives with her family on the east coast.

Drew Riley is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is completing an MFA in poetry. Drew lives and writes in Helena, MT.