Staff & Volunteers
The individuals on this page volunteer to make this press, its publications, and events happen.
Mick Kennedy
Founder
In the Fall of 1999, Kennedy began The Heartland Review. He served as editor in chief until Fall 2024. He aquired the honor of hosting the Joy Bale Boone Poetry contest in 2003. Kennedy has been a featured reader at Flying Out Loud, inKY and the Fort George Poetry Festival. He has served as a member of the Bernheim Writer in Residence selection panel, and has moderated the Kentucky State Poetry Society (KSPS) and Indiana State University Academy of American Poets poetry contests, and was a featured speaker at KSPS and the Christian Writer’s Association. He teaches at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. Kennedy’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Midwest Quarterly, The Galway Review, California Quarterly, Friday Poems, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Columbia Journal Online, New Southerner, Iron Horse Literary Review, War the Arts & Literature, The Louisville Review, Pikeville Review, Cut-Thru Review, Willow Review, Indiana English, Pegasus, Mid-West Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Amy Fox-Angerer
Editor in Chief
Fox-Angerer is an Associate Professor of English at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College, is a life-long learner, avid traveler, and cancer survivor with an MA in Education and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University as well as a Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) from Cambridge. She has worked in Iraq with linguists, taught college courses onboard deployed navy ships, taught ESL in the Marshall Islands, and taught GED, ESL & English composition in Texas.
Ted Higgs
Associate Editor, Poetry
Higgs currently teaches Latin and literature at Maryville College in Tennessee. He has taught at the college level for over 35 years—at the US Military Academy, the University of Maryland (European Division), Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, the University of Kentucky, and elsewhere—teaching language, literature, philosophy, and creative writing. He is a retired Army officer and a linguist, having worked and translated in both Modern Greek and Italian. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals. He has three collections of poetry: Archipelago (2016), Plank by Plank (2019), and Scoring the Darkness (2022). Click the titles of his work to read or buy.
Yvonne Morris
Associate Editor, Poetry
Morris has published poetry in Galway Review, The Santa Clara Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and numerous journals. Mother was a Sweater Girl (2016) is her first book of poetry and Busy Being Eve (2022) is her most recent. In addition to being an Instructional Writing specialist at ECTC, she assists in textbook adoptions for a large publisher and teaches communications classes. Morris worked as a production editor for South-Western Publishing in Cincinnati, OH. Click the title of her work to read more or buy.
Robert Villanueva
Associate Editor, Fiction
Robert Villanueva lives in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and is an award-winning former journalist and author. Villanueva’s fiction, poetry and essays have been published in dozens of print and electronic journals, including fresh.ink, New Reader Magazine, The New Southern Fugitives, The Maine Review, The Binnacle and The Summerset Review. In 2018, The Heartland Review Press published a collection of his short fiction, A Fable of Freedom & Other Stories which is available on Amazon. Villanueva is the founder of The Bard's Corner Writers' Group, a writing group that still meets in Hardin County, Kentucky.
Barry Williams
Associate Editor, Fiction
Barry Williams is a KCTCS alumnus with a Master of Arts Degree from Austin Peay State University, where he also served as a faculty member of the College of Arts & Letters. He currently teaches communication and English courses for Elizabethtown Community & Technical College at the Kelley Center in Leitchfield, KY. In addition to teaching college, he pastors Macedonia Baptist Church and is a published graphic novelist. His credits include My Name is Proxy, Atomik Mike, Clash!, Iron Ghost, and Red Dwarf: Prelude to Nanarchy. No stranger to fiction, he also has published numerous short stories and poems through university and community press.
Clay Matthews
Associate Editor, Poetry
Clay Matthews’ books are Superfecta (Ghost Road Press), RUNOFF (BlazeVox), Pretty, Rooster and Shore (both from Cooper Dillon), and Four-Way Lug Wrench (Main Street Rag Books). He currently lives in Elizabethtown, KY and teaches at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College.
Holly Tabor
Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction
Holly Tabor lives in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with her husband and two children where
she teaches seventh-grade language arts at East Hardin Middle School. She was a 2017
Aspen Summer Words fellow, and her poetry and stories have been published in The Heartland Review, Juked, The Louisville Review, and A Tulip Tree Anthology: Stories That Need to be Told.
Dr. Megen Boyett
Associate Editor, Fiction
Dr. Megen Boyett has been teaching and editing writing across genres since 2014. She received her doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville in 2021 and currently serves as the Student Development Specialist for ECTC's TRIO program, working with underserved populations. Her work has been published in Currents literary magazine, Community Literacy Journal, Caesura and Threshold Concepts for Writers.
Erin Faherty
Production Editor
Erin Faherty is a full-time, fully online Assistant Professor of English at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and a Kool Academy alumni. She received her B.A in English from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and M.A in English from Northern Illinois University. She has taught college English classes since 1990 at various universities and colleges around the country. She's used many teaching modalities including teaching her first online/hybrid course in 2002. Currently, she teaches online composition, both English 101 and 102. She's also been responsible for designing, developing and maintaining online composition courses for adjunct faculty at ECTC and she has co-developed a composition course for KCTCS. She has also developed professional development courses for teachers as part of KCTCS’s professional development program – Applied Practice for Teaching.
LaNinA Jones
Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction
LaNina Jones is a full-time Academic Advisor at ECTC. She earned her Associates in Arts from ECTC, then transferred to the University of Kentucky to finish her Bachelors in English Literature with a minor in Modern and Classical Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies in Ancient Greece. She now attends Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, where she is working on completing her MFA in Creative Writing with a Poetry focus. LaNina currently resides in New Haven, Kentucky with her cats and bearded dragon. She has been published in The Heartland Review. She was the 2019 recipient of the Arts and Humanities Award from ECTC.
Bernie DavenporT
Art Editor
Bernie Davenport is the retired webmaster of ECTC. He was hired as a faculty member for the Auto/Diesel Technology program in 2000, and a few years later he also began working part-time as a staff member for the college’s IT department. In 2005 he built the first website for the college after the merger of the academic and technical programs. His creative interests include various mediums of artistic works including, pencil and charcoal sketches, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paints, and digital art, as well as a strong interest in photography.
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