Rebecca Clever
Editor/Publisher of Blast Furnace--an independent on-line literary press based in Pittsburgh. Graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing from Chatham University, dual concentration in poetry & creative non-fiction, plus certifications in Travel Writing and Independent Publishing. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry and the AWP Intro Journals Award. Quarter-finalist for the Nimrod Literary Awards Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Received the Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize in 2007, co-sponsored by Chatham and the Academy of American Poets. Published or forthcoming in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ECOllective, cliterature, The Fourth River, Lumina, Lunarosity, Freshwater, OVS, Naugatuck River Review, Spirit, Shaking Like a Mountain (SLAM), and Spectrum, as well as the anthologies "One For the Road," by Split Oak Press; "Butterfly Away" and "Many Windows," by Magnapoets; and "About Her: Stories of Grace, Grit, Grievance, and Gratitude," by Metaphorical Ink.

