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OUR PEOPLE
Our editors and teachers have decades of experience in publishing, teaching, and writing.
Ladette Randolph
Co-Founder, Editor
Heather Lundine
Co-Founder, Editor
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Ladette Randolph is the author of three novels, a short story collection, and a memoir. She is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe grant, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner award, and a citation from Best New American Voices.
Ladette is editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares and was the former editor-in-chief and acquiring editor at University of Nebraska Press. She co-founded Randolph Lundine in 2012.
A long-time Nebraskan, Ladette spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She now lives in Massachusetts with her husband Noel.
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Heather Lundine was an acquiring editor and editor-in-chief of the University of Nebraska Press for over a decade. During her tenure, she acquired and edited numerous award-winning scholarly and trade nonfiction books. She then served as editor-at-large for University of West Virginia Press. Her work focused on trade nonfiction and she created the literary nonfiction series In Place. In 2012, she co-founded Randolph Lundine with Ladette Randolph.
Heather has been a featured speaker on publishing and writing at numerous colleges and has appeared on panels at major conferences.
Heather’s areas of specialty are scholarly monographs, general trade nonfiction, history, and biography.
She lives in Colorado and New Mexico with her husband and two very large dogs.
Sherrie Flick
Editor
Laura Furman
Editor
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Laura Furman is author of three collections of short stories, two novels, and a memoir. Her first story appeared in The New Yorker in 1976, and since then work has appeared in Yale Review, Epoch, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, and other magazines.
For nearly twenty years, Laura was Series Editor of The O’Henry Prize Stories. She taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is now professor emerita. Prior to that she worked at Grove Press and then as a freelance copy editor for various New York publishing houses and the Menil Foundation.
Laura has received fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, Dobie Paisano Project, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Born and educated in Brooklyn, New York, Laura now lives in Albuquerque with her husband Joel.
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Sherrie Flick is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her work has won the Foreword INDIES Bronze Prize for best story collection, has been included in The Best Small Fictions and many other anthologies, as well as Ploughshares, North American Review, Passages North, The Wall Street Journal, and Creative Nonfiction.
She served as Series Editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 and is co-editor of Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2022). She is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly and teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University. Sherrie also writes an urban garden monthly columnist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Sherrie lives on the South Side Slopes of Pittsburgh with her husband, Rick, and their dog, Jo-Jo.
Gretchen E. Henderson
Editor, Teacher
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Gretchen Ernster Henderson is a writer, artist, and scholar. She writes across environmental arts, cultural histories, and integrated sciences, cross-pollinating creative and critical practices.
Gretchen teaches widely, and her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and artist residencies. Recent awards include a 2022 WISC Fellowship from the Women's International Studies Center, 2023 Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency in New Mexico, and a Lucas Artists Program Fellowship at Montalvo (2023-2026).
Gretchen is the author of five books, opera libretti, and art media. Her most recent book, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea was released in 2023.
Born and raised in California, she teaches at UT-Austin and leads writing and literature retreats at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, the University of Arizaon Poetry Center, and for Randolph Lundine.
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