editors

Shyla Shehan (she/her):
Princess Peach
Takes too many pictures of her cats

Shyla is an analytical Virgo from the Midwest. She received an MFA from the University of Nebraska and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Pinch, New York Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Write or Die Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Door is a Jar Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Unsuspecting Cinderella, was released from Finishing Line Press in spring of 2022. ❀ For more, please visit shylashehan.com.

Contact: shyla.shehan@thegoodlifereview.com

Tacheny Perry (she/her):
Managing Editor
Loves drinking pickle juice and watching terrible TV

Tacheny received her MFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has been published by Boys Town press and was a contributor and editor for the Albuquerque Mom’s Blog. She lives in Omaha, NE with her husband, three young boys, and two mostly saintly dogs.

Tacheny is also one of our flash fiction editors.

Contact:
tacheny.perry@thegoodlifereview.com

Annie Barker (she/her):
Associate Editor
Puts “R” sock on right foot; “L” sock on left foot

Annie is a practicing psychotherapist living in Omaha with her husband and their two yellow Labradors, Lola and Jack. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from Vassar College, a master’s in social work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), and an MFA in Writing from UNO. When she’s not writing or sitting with clients, she enjoys reading, singing soprano in her local LGBTQ+ chorus, digging in her garden, and putting together complex jigsaw puzzles.

Annie is also one of our flash nonfiction editors.

Contact:
annie.barker@thegoodlifereview.com

Cat Dixon (she/her):
Poetry Editor

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 Pierce Battle (she/her)
Poetry Editor
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 on her journey as a writer.

Terry Belew (he/him)
Poetry Editor & Micro Poetry Editor
Strongly dislikes the word ‘poet’

Terry Belew lives in rural Missouri and is an Instructor at State Technical College of Missouri and a student in the low-residency program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His work has appeared in journals such as Storm Cellar, The American Journal of Poetry, The Fourth River, Tar River Poetry, and Split Rock Review, among others. He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and also won the Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Cid Galicia (he/him)
Poetry Editor
Buzz Blog Book Review Editor

Cid Galicia has lived, and taught, in New Orleans for the past twelve years. He is currently studying in his MFA program, through 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.  He is excited to start a new adventure interning at The Red Hen Press this summer.

Carina Faz (she/her):
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 is currently finishing her MFA in Fiction at 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.

Emily Marvin (she/her):
Fiction Editor
Cat wrangler

Emily holds a BA in English, Creative Writing, and Publishing from the University of Iowa and is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska’s MFA Writing program. Her work has appeared in Entropy Magazine, the single-issue University of Iowa magazine VII, and she was a finalist for the Reedsy Creative Writing Scholarship in 2018. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, bullet journaling, knitting, and compulsively collecting books.

Dave Mainelli (he/him):
Fiction Editor
Once quit a job because the boss kept spelling lettuce with an S

Dave Mainelli published his short story collection, “How to Be Lonely,” in 2021 with WSC Press. He has also published in Emerging Nebraska Fiction Writers, Curbside Splendor, Fine Lines Literary Journal, and more. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and teaches creative writing at the University of Nebraska of Omaha and Wayne State College. He is also a singer/songwriter and plays in the band Bazile Mills.