Oak Bend Review

Publishing Editor:
Sandee Lyles' poetry, fiction, art, essays, and reviews have been widely published online and in print.   A 2007 Pushcart Nominee, Sandee lives with a houseful of teens, animals, and Jack in Flower Mound, TX where she dreams of becoming a Rodeo Clown, but is unwilling to put up with the bull.

Associate Editor/Technical Advisor:
John Lyles is a Technical Instructor and Writer in Irving, Texas.

Art Director/Cover Art:
Leslie McReynolds is an Artist living with her husband, Ken, and their two children in Flower Mound, Texas.  (She's really a Jersey girl.)   She has been an Art Educator for fifteen years.  She is a professional mural and portrait painter, a freelance artist,  and creates set designs for Lake Cities Ballet Theatre in Lewisville, TX.  She is responsible for our amazing cover art and we feature her art as often as she will allow us to.   



Web Advisor:
Jonathan Lyles is an Engineering Student at the University of North Texas.

Associate Editor:
Mimi Vaquer was born in 1974 in Savannah, GA where she is a poetry and fiction writer, in addition to being an 8th grade English teacher. She graduated from Georgia Southern University with a BA in English in 1997, and is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Education. She has work in previous and upcoming literary journals, including Willard and Maple, Foliate Oak, Grey Sparrow Press, Ouroboros Review, and Steam Ticket Journal.

Associate Editor:
Amye Barrese Archer is a graduate student working towards her MFA in Creative WritingWilkes University.  She has written poetry, short stories, a novel that will never be finished, and many truths on bathroom walls.  Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in PANK, Twins, The Ampersand Review, The Battered Suitcase, and others.  Her chapbook, No One Ever Looks Up, was published by Pudding House Press in 2007.    Amye has two-year-old twin daughters, and shares her life with her brilliant husband, Tim.  You can see samples of her work and read her blog at www.amyearcher.com  

 Associate Editor:
William "Cully" Bryant is a family physician and author.  He lives and works in rural southeast Missouri and admits to using "doctoring" to support his writing habit.  Recent work can be found in The Distillery, Clapboard House, Underground Voices and Beeswax.  Cully has just completed his first novel, MESSAGES, a fantasy.  He can be reached at cbryant85@msn.com