Our Story:
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The Ore Ink Review is Northern Michigan University's student run literary journal. We began as the NMU Lightkeeper in April of 2011, mostly reaching out to undergraduates and others in the Marquette community. Since then, Ore Ink has had the pleasure in publishing stories written by many Northern undergraduates, grad students, alumni, and international writers. We seek to publish the fluid and the fierce, the great and the gritty.
Staff:
Madeline Bitter - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Madeline Bitter is a senior English major at NMU with a minor in Native American studies. She is a sucker for rural Americana aesthetics, ghosts stories, doomed romances and dog sidekicks. Although nonfiction is her favorite genre to write, supernatural horror and place-based writing also catches her fancy as well.
Niikah Hatfield - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Niikah Hatfield is an artist, musician, writer, and dancer, among other things. Her passion for life comes from the desire to experience all the facets of reality, and she loves to explore the deep and the strange. She is a senior in the Ceramics Program at Northern Michigan University, with a minor in Creative Writing. Her work appears in the Adelaide Review, the Michigan Writers Anthology, and the Marquette Monthly, among others. She is the author of Kana's Vardo: A Novella.
Christian Atwell - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Christian Atwell is a undergrad at Northern Michigan University. In her time at school she has edited a community collect novel, and published her short story “Navel Oranges” through the Cesar Foundation. She is currently a managing editor of The Ore Ink Review, an intern for Passages North, and a videographer for TV6 News.
Scott Perry - Editor
Scott Perry is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in English Writing at NMU. In his time at Northern Michigan University, he has served as an editor for Ore Ink Review. In addition he is interning at Passages North, an on campus literary magazine, reading for Poetry.
Duncan Muter - Editor
Duncan Muter is a junior at Northern Michigan University who is currently working towards a bachelor's in Medicinal Plant Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics. When he can he enjoys reading and writing, especially about fungus.
Rachel May - Faculty Adviser
Rachel May, PhD, MFA, is the author of Quilting with a Modern Slant (Storey/Workman), named a Library Journal and Amazon Best Book of 2014, as well as a book of sewn images and short shorts, The Experiments: A Legend in Pictures & Words (Dusie Press, 2015), and a novel in shorts, The Benedictines (Braddock Avenue Books, 2016). She illustrated in thread Women Born with Fur & Out from the Pleiades (Jaded Ibis Press, 2015). A book of creative nonfiction, An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery is forthcoming from Pegasus Books, a Norton subsidiary (Dec 2017). Her visual and written work has been published in The Volta, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Delta Review, Meridian, The Literary Review, and many other journals. She's been awarded residencies at The Millay Colony and The Vermont Studio Center.