About White Whale Review

Published biannually, White Whale Review is an online literary magazine devoted to the single-minded pursuit of that which eludes easy capture: "beauty"; "truth"; the fictions that window or curtain each. Those skeletally abstract words for ideas best suggested in tangible form, what we want is a dialogue between art and the world lodged hard in the throat of things. White Whale Review stands as a forum for poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction from both established and new writers, favoring quality over genre or theme. The successful work is an incandescent fiat—firefly or lightning  brief, maybe, but lux nonetheless—against the dusk and dimming terrain of modern existence.

About The Editors

Alec Hershman
Poetry Editor

Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis and teaches at The Stevens Institute of Business and Arts. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Burnside Review, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, The Journal, Cream City Review, Phoebe, CutBank, The Sugar House Review and other magazines. In 2013 he will be a visiting poet-in-residence at Ananda College.

Randi Shapiro

Managing Editor; Webmaster

Randi Shapiro holds a M.F.A. in fiction writing from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. from Wellesley College. In 2000, she won the Dyer-Ives Annual Poetry Contest judged in that year by Thomas Lux.

Amos Wright

Fiction Editor

Amos Jasper Wright is currently pursuing a graduate degree in urban planning from Tufts University in Boston. He holds a bachelor’s in philosophy and English and a master’s degree in English, with a concentration in creative writing, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His poetry has been published in Salamander, Aura Literary Arts Review, Pale Horse Review, and the Birmingham Arts Journal, and his fiction is forthcoming in Arcadia Magazine. He is also a co-founding editor of Benjamin's Suitcase, an electronic journal of critical social theory, and The Heaviest Corner, a blog which analyzes and critiques the city of Birmingham's urban history and development. His website is amosjasperwright.com