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Adrienne Marie Barrios
Co-editor-in-chief, founder
Adrienne Marie Barrios is editor-in-chief of Reservoir Road Literary Review and the indefinitely closed CLOVES Literary. She is co-author of the poetry collection Too Much Tongue (Autofocus, 2022), written collaboratively with Leigh Chadwick, and her debut solo collection We Don’t Know That This Is Temporary (Stanchion Books, 2024). Her work has appeared in trampset, Passages North, Rejection Letters, Stanchion, and HAD, among many others journals. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best Microfiction. She edits anthologies and award-winning novels and short stories.
Adrienne is autistic and has ADHD and struggles daily with chronic illnesses and disability. Many days, she struggles simply to exist, but the pain borne of those days gives way to a creativity she isn’t sure she would’ve found otherwise. It is this dark creativity that inspired her to found Reservoir Road Literary Review.
You can learn more about her online at adriennemariebarrios.com.
Dorian Zimmerman
Co-editor-in-chief, poetry editor
Dorian Zimmerman comes to Reservoir Road to end a hiatus from the literary world. A graduate of the Kenyon Review Young Writer’s Workshop, he worked and taught poetry at Fishtrap, performed at spoken word events up and down the West Coast, published poems in Blue Moon, and won one of the annual Zumwalt Prairie Poetry contests.
Now, Dorian writes both poetry and fiction from his beloved home city of Seattle, working on a poetry collection and a novel. Whereas his poetry grounds itself in the tangible aspects of everyday existence, his prose tends to eschew reality in favor of the fantastical.
Eventually, he will have a website where you can learn more.
Kavan Stafford
Flash fiction editor
Kavan P. Stafford is an author, poet, and reviewer who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. His work has appeared in The Sock Drawer, Cobra Milk, Tether's End, Beir Bua, and elsewhere. He loves to see stories with a strong command of dialogue and well-drawn, compelling characters.
Daniel DeRock
Fiction editor
Daniel DeRock is a writer and editor. He is originally from the Midwestern United States and now lives in the Netherlands. His stories have appeared in Pithead Chapel, Rejection Letters, Gone Lawn, and CLOVES Literary, among others.
Alongside his work with Reservoir Road Literary Review, Daniel is associate fiction editor of Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and book review editor of an academic journal. He is currently revising his first novel and dreaming up the next one.
Barlow Adams
Creative nonfiction editor
Barlow Adams is a writer from Cincinnati. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions and has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50.
Follow him on Twitter at @BarlowAdams.
Katie Proctor
Social media manager
Katie Proctor (they/them) is a poet from Yorkshire, England. They write freeform poetry and prose often regarding their experience with love, relationships, and mental health. Their sophomore collection A Desire for Disaster is forthcoming from Hedgehog Poetry. They are the editor-in-chief of celestite poetry, a journal of creative writing and non-fiction. They will be studying English and Related Literature at the University of York in 2022.
You can find them on Twitter @katiiewrites, Instagram @katiiewrites, and online at katiiewrites.carrd.co.