Editor & Fiction Editor

Thomas Dodson 

Thomas is a writer, designer, web developer, and academic librarian. Founding editor of PDR, he also developed the website and designs the magazine. He blogs about technology and design at techneblog.com, and his story “Creek People” was recently published in Beloit Fiction Journal. 

Fiction Editor

Kate Estrop 

In addition to editorial duties for PDR, Kate writes and teachers. She is an adjunct faculty member of literature and creative writing at Lesley University and Co-Organizer of Boston Writer’s Meetup. Her story “One New Message” was published in 322 Review.

Kate earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born among the cornfields of Central Illinois, Kate has acclimated to city life (almost) and can now be found among the bookstores and coffee shops of Cambridge and Somerville.

Nonfiction Editor

Chris Willard 

Chris Willard is a psychologist, author, teacher, speaker, editor, traveler, outdoorsman, reader, student, cook, critic and any combination of these he can manage at once. His book Child’s Mind argues for the benefits of teaching meditation to young people. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Poetry Editors

Bonnie Rubrecht

Since discovering Langston Hughes’ work when she was thirteen, Bonnie Rubrecht has spent most of her spare time reading, writing and studying poetry. While living in NYC, she volunteered for Poet’s House and was privileged to work at the People’s Poetry Gathering in 2003. Now in Boston, she can be found attending readings throughout the city. Her poetry has been published by the GSU Review.

Zach Buscher

Zach Buscher hails from the wild west of Massachusetts. He recently received his MFA from the University of Arizona, where he was a Beverly Rogers Fellow and Poetry Editor for Sonora Review. Now he works in academia, teaching at Quinsigamond Community college in Worcester, MA and tutoring at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Recent-ish work appears in Back Room Live, Spork, La Petite Zine, Pank, and Best New Poets 2011. He sporadically blogs and tweets at www.zachbuscher.com and @PoetryTwit respectively.

Visual Arts Editors

Jess Barnett 

Jess Barnett is a color-obsessed artist living and working in the North End in Boston. She has shown her work at the FPAC Art at 12 gallery, Achilles, (ahts): The Boston Arts Festival, SOWA, and the Beacon Hill Art Walk, among other places around Boston.

Her work can be found at jessbarnett.com and on facebook. Her influences include Franz Kline, Francis Bacon, and Japanese minimalism.

Joshi Radin 

(Photo by Carl Tremblay). Commercial/editorial photographer Joshi Radin takes pictures of people, musicians (quasi-people), buildings, interiors and occasionally food for her clients, which include Feeding America, Shambhala Sun, Dana Farber, MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale Magazine, DJ-Kicks, Intercontinental Hotels, XLR8R, body + soul, and others.

She is currently working on an art project about hotels. If you grew up on a commune, contact her about a different art project.

Editorial Consultant