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About the Editors
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Eclectica was founded in 1996 by Tom Dooley and Chris Lott, with Chris providing most of the inspiration and even more of the perspiration. Chris left the magazine in 1998, and after muddling along on his own for a while, Tom found valuable assistance in Julie King. Julie, one of the first Eclectica authors, signed on to help with poetry but soon became a full co-editor. Then Tom and Julie got married! Always a labor of love, Eclectica had become even more so. However, after six years of serving as the Poetry Editor and generally keeping Tom from making too much of a fool of himself, Julie needed time to meet other obligations and devote to her own writing. Fortunately in the meantime, a host of other volunteer editors had joined the Eclectica team, and with their help, the adventure continues.
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Tom Dooley taught middle and high school English for twelve years in Alaska, Arizona, and Wisconsin. A former wrestling coach, gas station attendant, forklift driver, bank teller, and many other things that add up to a total absence of career planning, Tom now has a Masters in Public Administration and has embarked on a career with the federal government. He serves as Eclectica's Managing Editor and Fiction Editor.
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Colleen Mondor is Eclectica's Review Editor. She grew up in Florida, moved to Alaska for ten years, and now
lives in Washington State, where she misses the beach. Colleen also writes for
Bookslut and is working on a book about Alaska flying. Her goals for
2005 are to learn how to fence and "finish this damn book."
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Elizabeth P. Glixman is Eclectica's Interview Editor. Her fiction and poetry have appeared online and in print in Wicked Alice, In Posse Review, 3 A.M. Magazine, Tough Times Companion, a publication of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Her Circle Ezine, Frigg, and Velvet Avalanche, an anthology of erotic poetry. Besides Eclectica, her author interviews, articles, book reviews, and creative non-fiction pieces have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Whole Life Times, Spirit of Change, Hadassah Magazine, and the anthologies Chocolate for A Woman's Soul II and Cup of Comfort For Women. Elizabeth's story, "Mother's Bony Behind," was chosen one of the notable online stories of 2006 by the Million Writers Award.
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Jennifer Finstrom is Eclectica's Poetry Editor. A former spotlight author, her poetry has appeared in Primavera, Poems and Plays, The Comstock Review, Mythic Delirium, Cider Press Review, and Tar River Poetry, among other publications. She was the third place winner in Atlanta Review's POETRY 2002. Originally from Wisconsin, Jennifer lives in Chicago, where she is writing an epic fantasy novel that should (finally) be completed early this year.
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Pamela Mackey
is Eclectica's Copy Editor and a contributing book reviewer. She teaches English at a community college in central New York. Earlier in her career, she wrote feature stories for newspapers, including The New York Times. Even earlier, she was a researcher and editor in the magazine industry, holding staff positions at LOOK and Saturday Review magazines. She writes poetry and is the mother of a gifted young novelist.
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Past assistant and guest editors of Eclectica include Kevin McGowin, Tara Gilbert-Brever, Mitchell Metz, John Reinhard, Thom Ingram, Linera Lucas, Jessica Handle, Jodi L. Laughlin, Michael Spice, Pamela Gemin, Paul Sampson, and the aforementioned Julie King.
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