editors

Shyla Shehan
Princess Peach

Gets her best work done between first and second sleep

Contact: shyla@thegoodlifereview.com

Annie Barker
Associate Editor
Copy Editor, Short Creative Nonfiction & Micro CNF Editor

Puts “R” sock on right foot; “L” sock on left foot

M.A. Boswell
Associate Editor
Flash CNF Editor

Tacheny Perry
Associate Editor

Loves drinking pickle juice and watching terrible TV

Stepha Vesper
Lead Poetry Editor, Autumn 2026 Issue
Horror movie and basset hound obsessed!

Originally from Ohio, Stepha Vesper holds a BA and MA in poetry from Miami University and an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Stepha’s poems can be found in Fruita Pulp, COAST|noCOAST, and other journals.  Currently residing in Omaha with her husband and hound, she also works as a copywriter and marketing specialist.  

Cid Galicia
Lead Poetry Editor, Summer 2026 Issue

Cid Galicia has lived and taught in New Orleans for the past twelve years. He has an MFA from the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is a poetry reader for The Kitchen Table Quarterly. He received honorable mention for the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize, and his most recent work has appeared in the National Poetry Month Issue of The Elevation Review. 

Cat Dixon
Co-Lead Poetry Editor, Spring 2026 Issue

Cat is the author of Eva and Too Heavy to Carry  (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016, 2014) and The Book of Levinson and Our End Has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2017, 2015), and the chapbook, Table for Two (Poet’s Haven, 2019).  She has poems (co-written with Trent Walters) in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018).  

Michelle Battle
Co-Lead Poetry Editor, Spring 2026 Issue
Never met a ball of yarn she didn’t like

Michelle holds an MFA in Writing-Poetry from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her work has appeared in 13^th Floor Magazine, Fine Lines, and Taxicab Literary Magazine. She has conducted creative writing workshops for urban youth and Backwaters Press. Her daughters are lifelong supporters of her journey as a writer.

Terry Belew
Poetry Editor
Strongly dislikes the word ‘poet’

Terry Belew lives in rural Missouri. His debut collection, The Deep Blue of Neptune, won the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Kent State University Press. He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he won the 2022 and 2023 Helen W. Kenefick Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Recent work can be found in journals such as Meridian, Southern Humanities Review, Storm Cellar, Gulf Stream, and Tar River Poetry, among many others. 

Carina Faz
Short Fiction Editor
If you let her pick what’s for dinner, it will always be tacos!

Carina is an award winning screenwriter/filmmaker residing in Brooklyn (NY), but originally from Dallas, Texas. She received her BA in Radio/Television Production from Texas A&M University at Commerce, and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Carina spends her time traveling back and forth between the Lone Star State and the Big Apple. When not working to pay the bills, Carina enjoys watching films directed by Robert Rodriguez, baking fresh Mexican pastries, and buying just one more book.

Amy Crawford
Short Fiction Editor

Amy recently completed an MFA in Writing and MA in English at UNO, with writing that ranges from speculative fiction to creative non-fiction, often informed by trauma studies and ecocriticism. In addition to putting pen to paper, Amy spends downtime with a little rescue tabby cat, reading the next novel in the pile, trying a new tea, watching movies or playing games, and traveling to new places.

Lea Pounds
Short Fiction Editor

Lea Pounds holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her writing focuses on the complex and fluid relationships we have with our natural, social, and political environments. She loves to explore those brief interactions that tell a deeper story. Lea is an avid people watcher and gets her best story ideas by eavesdropping on snippets of other people’s lives. She’s published in Sand Hills, The Novice Writer, After Dinner Conversation, and Grand Dame Literary.