Woodley Press Board Members

K.L. BARRON
Alma —Fiction writer, poet. MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, Bennington College. She teaches for the English Department at Washburn and lives and writes in the Flint Hills. Her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in New Letters, Bennington Review, Kansas Voices Anthology, Midwest Quarterly, Inscape, and others.
karen.barron@washburn.edu
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ELEANOR H. BELL
Topeka — Charter member of the Woodley Press Board. Eleanor currently free lances. She has professional experience as a writer, editor, and consultant. Her specialties include poetry, nonfiction, and technical writing. Publications: Flights Through Inner Space
evanbell@sbcglobal.net

DENNIS ETZEL JR.
Topeka — Poetry and fiction. MA in Literature and Creative Writing, Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, Kansas State University. He teaches part-time in the English Department at Washburn, and previously served as Editor-In-Chief and Poetry Editor for KSU’s literary magazine, Touchstone. His work has appeared in RATTLE, Black Bear Review, and Poetry Midwest. His fellowships and awards include: Salina’s New Voice Award, Graduate Student Creative Writing Award in Poetry, Seaton Fellowship for Creative Writers, and Washburn Writers Fellowship.

ROBERT N. LAWSON
Topeka — Woodley Press Chairman Emeritus and General Editor since its inception in 1980. President of the Woodley Foundation from its 1985 re-incorporation under that aegis until 1997. Robert is a retired professor of English from Washburn University. He published the play Mishima with Woodley Press in 1983, and is currently self-serializing his novel, The Bridge of Dreams, on the Internet

GARY LECHLITER
Lawrence — Gary Lechliter is recipient of the Langston Hughes Award for poetry and the David Ray Award. His poetry has appeared in Atlanta Review, Mudfish, New Letters, Pearl, Rattle, Rockford Review,and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He has a recent book, Under the Fool Moon, published by Coal City Press. Gary is editor and publisher of I-70 Review. .

LARRY MCGURN
Prairie Village — President/Treasurer. Larry is a technical writer for Black and Veatch, an engineering and architectural firm in Kansas City. Larry heads up the manuscript selection committee and produced our first collection of short stories in 1981. Publications: The Printer

KEVIN RABAS
Emporia — Kevin Rabas teaches creative writing and literature at Emporia State University, is editor of Flint Hills Review, and writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). He is the recent winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry and the Salina New Voice Award. His poetry appears in The Malahat Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Rockhurst Review, Nimrod, and elsewhere.

BRADLEY SIEBERT
Topeka — Dr. Bradley Siebert is an Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University, specializing in Rhetoric and Composition. Bradley teaches intermediate and advanced composition courses and business and technical writing. The focus of his research currently involves the interaction of postmodern discourse theory with theology and religious faith. Bradley writes a monthly column, "Views from the Pew," for _The Mennonite Weekly Review_ and writes nonfiction and fiction. He and his wife, Kay, have "co-authored" three lovely daughters.

WILLIAM SHELDON
William Sheldon lives with his family in Hutchinson , Kansas (birthplace and boyhood home of William Stafford), where he teaches and writes. His poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in many small press publications, including Flint Hills Review, Midwest Quarterly, New Letters, and Prairie Schooner. He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has edited two books for Woodley, Don Levering's Horsetail and Denise Low's Thailand Journal, and is currently editing Harley Elliott's Loading the Stone. His own collection of poetry, Retrieving Old Bones was one of The Kansas City's Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of 2002 and was named one of the Plains Humanities Alliance's Great Books of the Great Plains .

DAVID WEED
Topeka — Since receiving his PhD from Syracuse University in 1996, David Weed has been a faculty member in the Department of English at Washburn University, where he teaches composition courses and Literature of the American West. His research interests include gender studies, critical theory, and eighteenth-century literature and culture.

KEVIN WOHLER
Lawrence — Washburn University alumnus and former instructor, Kevin graduated in 1990 with a BA in English and communications and followed up a little over a decade later with a Masters of Liberal Studies in 2004. A writer, film critic, and webmaster for his own film site FilmGuru.Net [www.filmguru.net], he has had his poetry published several times in the Washburn literary magazine Inscape. He makes his home in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife Rachel.

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