Managing Editor
Pam Sinicrope
(she/her)
Pam Sinicrope holds an MFA from Augsburg University and a doctorate in Public Health. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Brawler Lit, SWWIM, Feral, Spillway, Literary Mama, 3 Elements Review, The Night Heron Barks, Appalachian Journal, and HeartWood Literary Magazine. She resides in Rochester, MN with her husband, mother-in-law, and their dog, Toby. In addition to her role as a medical writer, Pam is an active member of the League of Minnesota Poets and is deeply committed to fostering community through poetry and the arts.
Co-Managing Editor
Valeria Eden
(she/her)
Valeria Eden is a writer and editor who lives in Colorado and loves to write about the things that haunt her. She has a BA in Psychology from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. She is the author of Tender Teeth (Jack Wild Publishing) and more of her poetry has appeared in Variant Literature, Stanchion, Wasteland Review, Eunoia Review, Stone Circle Review, and Arcana Poetry Press, among others. She has three dogs, two therapists, one wildland firefighting boyfriend, and her favorite color is green.
Website Editor
Byron R. Echeverria
(he/him/él)
Byron R. Echeverria is a publishing professional with more than twenty years of experience at small and large literary houses—Two Lines Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Graywolf Press, and St. Martin’s Publishing Group—where he champions writers and literature of all kinds, especially poetry. Currently, he is the commercial director at Teachers College Press at Columbia University. Byron lives in New Jersey with his family and goldendoodle.
Senior Poetry Editor
David B. Prather
(he/him)
David B. Prather lives in Parkersburg, WV, a small city on the Ohio River. He received his BA in English from West Virginia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. His fourth poetry collection won the 2025 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize from Madville Publishing. His work has appeared in many publications, including New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, American Literary Review, Poet Lore, The Potomac Review, etc. (and he’s a past contributor to RPP). He currently serves as the West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Spring Conference Director. He is a past editor/reader for Confluence Literary Journal, Tantra Press, and Suburbia Journal. He also studied acting at National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, and he tries to remain active with the local theater, Actors Guild of Parkersburg.
Associate Editor
Lisa Higgs
(she/her)
Lisa Higgs is the recipient of a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board grant providing creative support for individual artists. Her third chapbook, Earthen Bound, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in February 2019. Her poetry has been published in Third Coast, ZYZZYVA, Folio, Rhino, Sugar House Review, and Water~Stone Review, among others, and her poem “Wild Honey Has the Scent of Freedom” was awarded 2nd Prize in the 2017 Basil Bunting International Poetry Prize. Her reviews and interviews can be found at the Poetry Foundation, The Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, and Full Stop. Currently, Lisa is a grant writer for the Rochester Repertory Theatre and Board member for the League of Minnesota Poets and Red Bird Chapbooks.
Graphics Designer/
Assistant Poetry Editor
Deborah Goschy
(she/her)
Deborah Goschy is a member of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society and the League of Minnesota Poets. She has won awards for her poetry at the state and national level and has had her work published in Encore: Prize Poems 2021, Encore: Prize Poems 2020, The Martin Lake Journal, The Poet-Artist Collaboration, and The Mankato Walk and Ride Project, which exhibits poems on signs along Mankato bike trails. Deborah is also an amateur actor, a painter, a digital photographer, and a graphic artist who designs Agates (formerly known as The Moccasin), the literary journal of the League of Minnesota Poets.
Digital/Social Media Editor
Jen Hallaman
(she/her)
Jen Hallaman lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, daughter, and two twenty-pound cats. She works at an independent bookstore, where she spends her lunch break writing poems. Her creative work appears in Pithead Chapel, DIAGRAM, Little Patuxent Review, Appalachian Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and RockPaperPoem, among other publications.
In Memoriam
Vincent O’Connor
Vince was a beautiful friend and generous colleague in everything he did for RockPaperPoem as a Co-Founder and Managing Editor/Website Editor from 2021-2025.
Board of Directors
President/Board Chair
Pam Sinicrope
(she/her)
At-Large Member; Managing Editor Emeritus
(2021-2025)
Alan Perry
(he/him)
Secretary
Kari Gunter-Seymour
(she/her)
Treasurer
Christy White
(she/her)
At-Large Member