{"id":1930,"date":"2020-01-09T15:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2020-01-09T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:06:52","slug":"mfa-graduate-student-announced-new-executive-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/mfa-graduate-student-announced-new-executive-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Graduate Student Announced New Executive Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December 2019, Skull + Wind Press announced MFA Poetry Student, Tori C\u00e1rdenas as their new Executive Editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skull + Wind was founded in 2019 by University of New Mexico alum, Trevor Ketner. Also a former Poetry Intern at Blue Mesa Review, Trevor is a non-binary poet, critic, seven-year publishing professional, and born-and-raised Burque\u00f1x. Their vision for Skull + Wind comes out of their experience working for amazing literary organizations wherever they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skull + Wind\u2019s mission is to nurture a literary community that is inclusive of everyone currently writing in Albuquerque or the Southwest: \u2018We hope, in small but growing ways, to do what we can to amplify voices that have been neglected, to open up the idea of what an inclusive literature looks like, and to make ourselves into something that every city, but especially Albuquerque, needs\u2014a literary hub with resources for our community.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tori, UNM alum, Blue Mesa Editor in Chief, and returning MFA candidate, will step up as Skull + Wind\u2019s Executive Editor and touchstone in Albuquerque. You can read more about their hopes and plans for building the press\u2019 presence in Albuquerque on <a href=\"http:\/\/\thttps:\/\/www.skullandwindpress.org\/blog\">Skull + Wind\u2019s weekly blog<\/a>, Tuesdays with Tori, during the month of December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The press\u2019 first book, \u201cWho Speaks for Us Here\u201d by Leslie Contreras, will release in March 2020. You can pre-order it, learn more about the press, submit, and donate at skullandwindpress.org.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2019, Skull + Wind Press announced MFA Poetry Student, Tori C\u00e1rdenas as their new Executive Editor. Skull + Wind was founded in 2019 by University of New Mexico alum, Trevor Ketner. Also a former Poetry Intern at Blue Mesa Review, Trevor is a non-binary poet, critic, seven-year publishing professional, and born-and-raised Burque\u00f1x. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}