Cider Press Review was founded in 1999 by Co-Publisher/Editors Caron Andregg and Robert Wynne. Since its inception, CPR has published thousands of poems by hundreds of authors. Each year, Cider Press publishes six bi-monthly online issues of its poetry journal. CPR also publishes at least two single-author manuscripts each year, the winners of the annual Cider Press Review Book Award and the Editors’ Prize for an original manuscript in English.

Caron Andregg
Publisher / Book Designer

Caron Andregg  holds an MS in Television/Radio/Film from The Newhouse School (Syracuse University) and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University, and has taught scriptwriting, literature, composition and rhetoric at institutions including Penn State and San Diego State. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals including Spillway, Rattle, Poetry International, Solo and many others, and in the anthology Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (2002) published by Southern Illinois University Press. In her non-poetic life, she runs a web design and marketing company with too much help from office cats.

Abby Card
Managing Editor

Abigail Card holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and a degree from Oregon State University. Her work can be found in an upcoming issue of Cimarron Review, as well as in For Women Who Roar, Prism, and Abandon Journal, among others. Abigail is a writer, editor, and illustrator currently residing off the coast of southern Maine on a small island, but calls the Pacific Northwest her home and visits often. When she isn’t writing, she’s usually hiking in old-growth forests, having coffee with friends, or traveling with her family.

Poetry Editor

John Bradley’s most recent book of poetry is Everything in Motion, Everything at Rest, from Dos Madres Press. He is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships in Poetry. His reviews of poetry books have appeared in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Rain Taxi, and Sulfur Surrealist Jungle. John holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Colorado State University, and Bowling Green State University. He lives in DeKalb, Illinois, with his wife, Jana, and their cats, Kiki and Zuzu.

Poetry Editor

Ken Letko’s Ken Letko’s poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including California Quarterly, Earth’s Daughters, Lake Effect, Rattle, and Spillway. Both the North American Review and Poetry South have nominated his poems for Pushcart awards. His book Bright Darkness was published by Flowstone Press in 2017. In 2021, Flowstone also published his sixth chapbook, Chopping Wood in the Moonlight. He lives in the redwoods of California’s northernmost coastal county, where he enjoys gathering firewood and juggling.

Poetry Editor

Susan Azar Porterfield’s three books of poetry include In the Garden of Our Spines, Kibbe (Mayapple Press) and Dirt, Root, Silk, which won the Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize. Individual poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Barrow Street, EcoTheo, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, Rhino, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream, Room, Ambit, Magma.

Poetry Editor

Caleigh Stephens is a writer, editor, curator, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago. They hold two degrees in English from the University of Chicago, with a focus on poetics and poetry translation, and have spent the past years on editorial staff at a variety of small presses and literary magazines. Caleigh’s writing can be found in ZYZZYVA, South Side Weekly, Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Common Forms, and Hyde Park Herald.

Poetry Editor
(Emeritus, 2023)

Beth McDermott is the author of How to Leave a Farmhouse, a chapbook published by Porkbelly Press. Her poems have been published in journals such as Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Terrain.org and Southern Humanities Review. Research interests include ecopoetry, ekphrasis, and poetic form. Articles and reviews about art and ecology can be found in The Trumpeter, After the Art, American Book Review, and Kudzu House Quarterly, where she was also Poetry Editor. Beth holds degrees from Hope College, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and lives in Frankfort, IL.

Catherine Carter
Poetry Editor
(Emeritus, 2021)

Dr. Catherine W. Carter’s first book, The Memory of Gills, came out in August 2006 with LSU, and won the 2007 NC Roanoke-Chowan award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Her work has previously appeared in Poetry, Tar River Poetry, Cider Press Review, and North Carolina Literary Review, among others, is due to appear in Best American Poetry 2008, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart; this year it has won the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Randall Jarrell award. She directs the English education program at Western Carolina University, in the Smoky Mountains. On the statistically unlikely chance that you may choose to hear more biography than this, her website(s) have more than anyone generally wants. Please visit catherine-carter.com or paws.wcu.edu/ccarter.

Ruth Foley
Editor Emeritus

Ruth Foley is responsible for reading and recommending poetry submissions, editing the annual edition of Cider Press Review, communicating with authors, and representing and promoting Cider Press Review at conferences and online via blogs, lists and social networking sites.  Ms. Foley is an accomplished poet, holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, and currently teaches at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Robert Wynne
Co-Founder/Publisher Emeritus

Prolific writer Robert Wynne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is a two-time winner of the academy of American Poets College Award and the Poetry Super Highway online poetry contest, as well as the recipient of the Masters Poetry Prize and the Grasslands Review Editor’s Prize. He is author of two full-length books and eight chapbooks of poetry. His second collection is Museum of Parrallel Art (2008) published by Tebot Bach. His first collection, Remembering How to Sleep (2007), was winner of the Texas Society of Poetry Edwin M. Eakin Memorial Book Publication Award. Wynne has published widely and is a regular featured reader at poetry festivals around the US. He lives in Burleson, Texas with his lovely wife and daughter.

For more about Robert Wynne, please see his website, rwynne.com.