Editorial Staff

Kate Falvey, Editor in Chief

Kate Falvey’s poetry appears in a variety of print and online journals: Hoboeye, Umbrella, Memoir(And), Literary Mama, The Aroostook Review, Big Pond Rumour, The Mom Egg, Red Line Blues, Hospital Drive, and others. She has also published scholarly articles on women writers and work for children. She ran a New York University-based print journal called Icarus for ten years and is on the editorial board of the Bellevue Literary Review, produced through N.Y.U.’s Langone Medical Center.

George Guida, Poetry Editor

George Guida, 2 Bridges Review's founding Poetry Editor, began his editorial career as an intern at The Paris Review and The Hudson Review, where he worked under George Plimpton, Jonathan Dee, Frederick Morgan, and Paula Dietz. He went on to study with Grace Schulman, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Dickstein, Robert Viscusi and other literary lights at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he earned a doctorate in American literature while getting involved in New York City's spoken word scene at venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Cornelia Street Cafe. He has directed or co-directed the Bensonhurst Reading Series, the Intercollegiate Poetry Slam at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Smalls Reading Series at Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, and the Dansville Authors Series in Western New York.

George is the author of four volumes of poetry—Low Italian, New York and Other Lovers, Pugilistic, and The Sleeping Gulf—along with two collections of stories, two collections of critical essays, and numerous individually published poems, stories, essays, and plays. He is at work on book about communities of poets across the United States, on a novel entitled The Carrying Place, and on two future volumes of poetry.

When he is not editing or writing, George teaches English and writing at New York City College of Technology. He has also taught on the faculty of the Controlled Burn Seminar for Young Writers and Savage Mountain Writers Workshop.

Rita Ciresi, Fiction Editor

Rita Ciresi is author of the novels Bring Back My Body to Me, Pink Slip, Blue Italian, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You. Her story collections include Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket (winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction). Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in over fifty literary magazines and numerous anthologies devoted to Italian-American literature. She is professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Visit her website at www.ritaciresi.com.