Staff
Peter Stitt
In addition to serving as editor of The Gettysburg Review since its founding in 1988, Peter Stitt is a full professor in the Department of English at Gettysburg College. He earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina in 1970 and subsequently taught at Middlebury College and the University of Houston before coming to Gettysburg. He is a critic of contemporary literature and was for eleven years the regular poetry reviewer for the Georgia Review. As editor of The Gettysburg Review, he was the first recipient of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, the Ohio Review, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, the Southern Review, and other journals. His latest book is Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets (University of Iowa Press, 1997). He is also the author of The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets (University of Georgia Press, 1986).
Mark Drew
Mark Drew has been the assistant editor of The Gettysburg Review since 1998. He earned his AA at Elgin Community College, BA at Knox College, and MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama. While in Tuscaloosa, he received an Academy of American Poets Prize, served as managing editor and editor of the Black Warrior Review (1993–95), taught American literature and creative writing as an adjunct instructor, and developed an abiding affection for Crimson Tide baseball and Southern BBQ. A native of Illinois and a now relatively happy fan of the White Sox, he has had poems appear in The Gettysburg Review, Lament, the Mankato Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and has published a limited-edition, letterpress chapbook titled Uncertainties.
Kim Dana Kupperman
Kim Dana Kupperman has been the managing editor of The Gettysburg Review since 2004. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine and is the author of an essay collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence (Graywolf Press, 2010), which was the recipient of the 2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in numerous literary publications, including Best American Essays 2006, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, and others. Her honors include fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; a scholarship from the Center for Book Arts; the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize; and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, devoted to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms.
Kristin Koontz
Kristin Koontz, our marketing and circulation manager, earned a BA from Gettysburg College with a dual degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She came to work at Gettysburg College in 1988 and joined The Gettysburg Review in 1997, where she can generally be found in her little office on the second floor of the Smoke House. She finds time to garden, volunteer, and hike, but is quite content watching CSI with a pack of Oreos in her lap.
