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December 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Deirdre Danklin

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12, 2023
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Introducing our November 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Deirdre Danklin holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband, son and two cats. Her flash fiction and essays have been published in Hobart, Pithead Chapel and The Jellyfish Review, among others. Her debut novella, Catastrophe, which won the 2021 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was nominated for a 2022 Shirley Jackson Award, was published by Texas Review Press. Danklin’s flash fiction chapbook, How

September 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Emily Woodworth

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09, 2023
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Introducing our September 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Emily Woodworth is a writer, filmmaker and proud descendant of the Karuk Tribe. She grew up in rural Oregon, where she developed a love for nature and the psychological pathologies that permeate small towns. Her work has appeared in EcoTheo Review, Los Suelos, Joyland, No Contact and more. Emily graduated with her MFA from CalArts, and has held fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Virginia G. Piper Center for

August 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Shantell Powell

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07, 2023
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Introducing our August 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Shantell (Shan) Powell is a two-spirit author, artist and swamp hag who grew up in an apocalyptic cult while living off the land. Powell is the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellow for 2023, a fellow for the Roots Wounds Words Winter Retreat in 2023 and a recent graduate of the Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and the LET(s) Lead Academy at Yale University. She has a BA in Classics, English Drama

July 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: John Nyman

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07, 2023
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Introducing our July 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: John Nyman is a poet, critic and book artist from Tkaronto / Toronto. He is the author of A Devil Every Day (Palimpsest Press, 2023), plus book works including an erasure of words and images from the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books (Your Very Own) and a classic text of Lacanian psycho-analysis reprinted in a nearly illegible typeface (The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis: A Selection). Otherwise,

June 2023 Reviewers-in-Residence: The Ampersand Review’s Shaylyn Schwieg and Becca Lawlor

Introducing our June 2023 Reviewers-in-Residence: June 2023 is a special month here at USEREVIEW, as we’re partnering with The Ampersand Review to bring you some exciting crossover content! Every Wednesday, CAROUSEL will be featuring reviews by Ampersand interns Shaylyn Schwieg and Becca Lawlor. Meanwhile, Ampersand’s June issue will feature a rare full-length external review by CAROUSEL Reviews Editor Jade Wallace, who normally only reviews for CAROUSEL. Without further ado, we introduce this month’s reviewers …

May 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Leah Bobet

Introducing our May 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Novelist, editor and critic Leah Bobet’s novels have won the Sunburst, Copper Cylinder and Aurora Awards, been selected for the Ontario Library Association’s Best Bets program and been shortlisted for the Cybils and the Andre Norton Award. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple Year’s Best anthologies and has been taught in high school and university classrooms in Canada, Australia and the US; her poetry has been multiply shortlisted for

April 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Hollay Ghadery

Introducing our April 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Hollay Ghadery is a writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in various literary journals, including Grain, Room, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review. Her memoir on mixed-race identity and mental health, Fuse, came out with Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in spring 2021. Her debut collection

March 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Joanna Acevedo

Introducing our March 2023 Reviewer-in-Residence: Joanna Acevedo (she/they) is the Pushcart nominated author of the chapbook List of Demands (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and the books The Pathophysiology of Longing (Black Centipede Press, 2020) and Unsaid Things (Flexible Press, 2021). She received her MFA in Fiction from New York University in 2021. More: joannaacevedo.net Over the course of the month, Acevedo will review the following books: • Gabrielle Bates’ debut poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House,

New at USEREVIEW in 2023

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02, 2023
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Since our debut more than two years ago in September 2020, CAROUSEL’s USEREVIEW has published over 100 traditional, experimental and short-form capsule reviews. Last year, we debuted our Reviewer-in-Residence program, in which we published short capsule reviews from a single reviewer for three weeks in a row. Never ones to coast, we decided this year to expand our Reviewer-in-Residence program to shine an even brighter spotlight on individual reviewers’ critical practices. For 2023, we have