Oak Bend Review

OBR Staff

 

Publishing Editor:
Sandee Lyles is an RN, International Poet/Freelance Writer,
Artist (debatable), and 2007 Pushcart Nominee who 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.



New Fiction/Non-Fiction Associate Editor:
Lorena Smith was born and raised in Sri Lanka where her Swedish mother and Sinhalese father run an orphanage and various social empowerment programs. She has been published in several magazines and e-zines like Redbook Magazine, Rambler Magazine, Ascent, Sketching Stone, Humdinger, The Smoking Poet, Door Knobs and Body Paint, Mom Writers Literary Magazine and local and regional newspapers She has short stories appearing in five anthologies.  Welcome Lorena!!!!!