About White Whale Review

Published quarterly, 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

Randi Shapiro

Fiction Editor; Webmaster

Randi Shapiro holds a M.F.A. in fiction writing at 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. She served for two years as fiction and poetry editor for the college literary journal Display Magazine, in addition to an award-winning stint as the news editor of the school's newspaper. She has studied with Pankaj Mishra and Frank Bidart; once, and awestruck, she asked Seamus Heaney to sign a tumbled scrap of notebook paper. That signature still exists, somewhere.

 

Amos Wright

Nonfiction 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

 

Jim Cronin
Poetry Editor (Emeritus); Occasional Sailor and Rabble-Rouser

Jim Cronin is a poet living in Boston, MA, and holds a B.A. from Suffolk University. Jim has been studying poetry with Boston-area poet Tom Daley since 2007 and is a member of the New England Poetry Club. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Fox Chase Review, The Somerville News and Amethyst Arsenic.