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Book Reviewer Index

Thank you to all of these reviewers! Writing book reviews is a valuable service to the community of writers and readers. We appreciate you!

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Abbate, Chris, Winter 2024 

Abernathy, Jeff, 2012 online
2007
2001
2000

Absher, Stan, Winter 2024 
Fall 2023 

Abrams, Hannah Dela Cruz, Spring 2024

Abrams, Katherine, Fall 2022 

Adams, Heather Bell, Winter 2025 
Spring 2024
Winter 2023 

Aiken, Elizabeth C., 2017 online 

Albright, Alex, 2016 online

Allee, Jessia L., Winter 2024

Amende, Kathaleen E., 2016 online
2015 online

Anton, Meredith, 2005

Arant, Alison, 2014 online 

Armstrong, Rhonda, 2017 online

Ashten, Loren, 2021 online

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B

Bailey, Dale, Winter 2025 
Winter 2023
Winter 2022
2021 online
2020 online

Bailey, Peggy Dunn, 2014 online

Ballance, Alton, 2018 online 

Beadle, Michael, Winter 2024 
Spring 2025
Fall 2025

Beam, Jeffery, 2002 

Belifuss, Michael J., 2019 online 

Bell, Bridget, Fall 2025 

Bennett, Barbara, Fall 2025
Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Winter 2023 
2021 online 
2020 online 
2019 online 
2018 online 
2014 online
2001 

Bennett, Tanya Long, 2021 online
2014 online
2013 online
1998

Bizzaro, Patrick, 2021 online
2006

Bledsoe, Erik, 1999 

Bradley, Onyx, Spring 2025 
Fall 2025 

Branan, Tonita, 2006
2001 

Brandt, Jenn, Fall 2022

Brantlet, Michael K., 2019 online

Brewer, Jeutonne, 1998 

Bro, Lisa Wenger, Winter 2025
Winter 2022
2020 online 
2016 online 

Brown, Joyce Compton, 2009 
2004 

Bryson, Teresa, 2018 online 
2017 online

Buchanan, Harriette C., 2007

Buchanan, Tim 2016 online

Bucher, Christina G., 2018 online 
2012
2006
1003
1999 

Buckner, Sally, 2011 

Bynum, Cameron, 2020 online

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Regular reviewer Barbara Bennett has also published literary criticism and creative nonfiction in NCLR.

C

Caffery, Joshua Clegg, 2016 online 

Caison, Gina, 2019 online
2016 online

Canada, Wanda, 2016 online

Capelli, Amanda, Winter 2024 
Fall 2023
2015 online

Carroll-Hackett, Mary, 2003

Carter, Catherine, Fall 2025 
Spring 2025
Spring 2024
2021 online 
2019 online 
2017 online 
2013 online 
2009 

Cash, Olivia, Winter 2025

Cash, Wiley, 2009 
2008

Castro, Joy, 1999 

Chatham, James O., 2002  

Chappell, Fred, 2020 online
2016 online 
2014 online
2013 online

Cherry III, William G., 1993 

Church, L. Teresa, 2018 online 

Clabough, Casey, 2011 
2005 

Clark, Andrew, Fall 2025

Clark Jr., James W., Winter 2022 
2018 online 
2016 online 
1995 

Clark, Jim, Spring 2024 
Winter 2023 
Fall 2023
Fall 2022
2021 online 
2020 online 

Claxton, Mae Miller, 2010

Clinton, David, 2020 online 

Coby, Jim, Spring 2024 
2021 online 
2020 online 
2019 online
2017 online
2015 online 

Colley, Sharon E., Winter 2025 
Fall 2025 
Winter 2024 
Fall 2023 
Winter 2022
2021 online 
2019 online 
2017 online 
2014 online 

Collins, Christie, Winter 2024 
2020 online 

Cornett, Sheryl, Winter 2023 

Cory, Jessica, Spring 2025 
Spring 2024

Corya, Kenly, Spring 2025

Cox, F. Brett, 2018 online
2011 
2010

Craighill, Virginia O., 1996 

Crone, Moira, Winter 2025 

Crowe, Thomas Rain, Winter 2025

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Frequent reviewer Catherine Carter received the 2018 James Applewhite Poetry Prize; her winning poem appears in NCLR 2019.

D

Davis, David A., 2010 

Daughtridge, Ashley, 2021 online

Day, Sara K., 208
2006 

Dean, Debra Kang, 2005 

Dewey, Joseph, 2019 online

Deutsch, David Winter 2023
2020 online 

Dillard, Leigh G., 2015 online

Dischinger, Matt, 2016 online

Dudasik-Wiggs, Cheryl, 2016 online 

Duncan, Charles, Winter 2024 

Duncan, Julia Nunnally, Spring 2024 

Duncan, Rebecca, Fall 2025
Winter 2024 
2021 online
2020 online 

Dunn, Patricia A., Winter 2024

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We appreciate when writers like Julia Nunnally Duncan, whose books have been reviewed in NCLR, return the favor by reviewing for us.

E
Eckard, Paula Gallant, 2020 online 
2003

Edwards, Time, 2021
2001

Entzminger, Betina, Winter 2023
2019 online
2007

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Franklin, Jeffrey, 2011 
2009
2007
1999 

Frazier, Annie, 2015 online 

Freeman, Gabrielle Brant, 2019 online
2013 online 

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Jeffrey Franklin served as NCLR Poetry Editor 2000-2025.

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Gaspeny, Michael, Spring 2024 

Geidel, Savannah, Fall 2022 

Gerard, Philip, 2021 online
2006 

Gessell, Donna A., Winter 2023 
Winter 2022
2019 online
2018 online
2015 online
2008

Gilmore, Garrett Bridger, 2019 online 
2018 online

Glover, Brian, 2015 online 
2014 online

Goad, Jill, Fall 2023

Godwin, Rebecca L, Winter 2025
Winter 2024 
Winter 2023 
2017 online 
2015 online 
2010
2008 

Goldman, Judy, Winter 2022
Green, Chris, 2010

Griffith, Michael, 1997 

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H

Haile, Molly Sentell, Fall 2022 

Hallberg, Christy Alexander, Fall 2023 
2020 online

Hamer, Mike, 1995 

Hampton, Leah, 2019 online
2016 online

Hampton, Tim, 1994 

Hannigan, Becca, Spring 2025

Hanley, John, 2020 online 

Hans, Shelby, Spring 2025 

Harrell Jr., Willie J., 2013 online 

Harrington, Janice N., Fall 2025
Winter 2025
2021 online 
2019 online 

Harris, Stuart, 1998

Haspel, Donald Paul, Winter 2025 

Heberlein, L.A., 2008 

Hedley, Susannah, 2021 online 

Hicks, Scott, 2017 online 

Higgins-Harrell, Anna Dunlap, 2018 online 
2014 online

Hill, Robert 2016 online 

Hoag, Ronald Wesley, 2006

Hobson, Fred, Winter 2022 

Holmes, Brianne, 2020 online 
2016 online 

Hooker, Deborah, 2012 online 

Hope-Gill, Laura, Winter 2022

Hoppenthaler, John, 2017 online
2013 online 

Horne, Grace, 2016 online 

Horvath, Brooke, 2008

Hough, John, 2014 online 

Hovis, George, Spring 2024
2018 online 
2015 online 
2009 
2001 

Hudson, Marc, 1998

Hudson, Marjorie, 2020 online

Huener, Sarah, 2018 online
2016 online 
2015 online

Hughes, Leah Miranda, 2013 online

Humphreys, Josephine, Fall 2022 

Hyde, Gene, 2018 online

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NCLR undergraduate interns like Susannah Hadley (front row, third from right among her fellow student staff members) sometimes write book reviews.

I

Irwin, Ivor S., 1993

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J

Jackson, Ron, 2014 online 

Johns, Wayne, 2020 online

Jones, F. Whitney, 1994 

Joy, Joanne, 2018 online
2016 online

Julian, Jeanne, 2017 online

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James (Jim) Kirkland, who taught at ECU for over 50 years, has written several reviews for us.

K

Kesler, Jon, Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Fall 2023

Kessel, John, Spring 2024 

Kilgore, Max, Winter 2022
2021 online 

Kimbrell, James, 2007 

Kirkland, James W., Winter 2025 
Fall 2023 
Fall 2022 
Winter 2022 
2021 online 
2020 online 
2008 print 

Kirkland, Jim, Fall 2022 

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn, Winter 2022

Knotts, Kristina, Winter 2024
Fall 2023
Winter 2022
2021 online
2019 online
2018 online
2014 online
2011
2004
1998 

Knotts, Kristina L., Winter 2024 
Winter 2022
2011 
2004 

Knox, Amber, Winter 2025 
Fall 2025
Spring 2024

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L

Lang, John, Winter 2024 
Winter 2022 
2020 online
2010
1999

Lawrence, Sally, 2008
2006
2004 

Lazure, Erica Plouffe, 2012 online 

Leggett, B.J., 2005

Lembke, Janet, 2002
1995 

Lombardo, Tom, 2007 

Lucas, Meagan, 2021 online 
2020 online 

Luter, Matthew, 2012 online 

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Reviewing was just one of the numerous tasks Sally Lawrence took on for us over her many years with NCLR. Sally (sitting between Art Editor Diane Rodman and Assistant Editor Randall Martoccia) built our first website!

M

MacLeod, Douglas C. Jr., Winter 2025
Maginnes, Al, 2017 online 
2012 online 
2008  

Makala, Melissa Edmunson, 2013 online 

Makuck, Peter, 2017 online
2012 online
1999

Martell, Jessica, Winter 2022

Martin, Brent, 2015 online

Martin, Gretchen, 2003

Martoccia, Randall, 2019 online 
2005 

Mason, Karen K., Fall 2022 
2013 online

Mayhew, Anna Jean, 2016 online

McFayden, Winter 2023 
2019 online 
2020 online 

McGaha, Jennifer, Winter 2025 
Spring 2025 

McGavran, Jim, 2014 online 

McMahan, Janna, Winter 2023

McMaster, Celeste, 2018 online

Melton, Sara E. 2019 online 

Messer, Cody, Spring 2025

Meyers, Susan Laughter, 2017 online 
2016 online 
2014 online 
2013 online 
2012 online 

Miller, Monica Carol, Winter 2023 
Winter 2022
2020 online
2016 online

Mills, Jerry Leath, 2009 
2002 
2000

Mills, Joseph, 2020 online

Mitchell, Felicia, 2008 

Moore, Al-Tariq, Winter 2024

Moore, Mark A., 1999 

Moser, Angela Love, 2021 online

Mullins, Maryscot, 2005
2004

Murray, Lynne Norris, Winter 2023 
Winter 2022

Murray, Savannah Paige, 2021 online
2020 online 
2019 online 
2018 online 

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Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin loved Susan Laughter Meyers’s poetry (right). We know this because he kept picking her poems for publication – read anonymously, of course. Susan gave back, writing several reviews.

N

Neal, Dale, Fall 2023
Fall 2022,
2021 online 
2019 online 

Neiman, Valerie, 2019 online

Nixon, Timothy, Fall 2022 

Norton, James, 2001

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O

Ocasio, Grace C., Winter 2022 
2018 online

Oxler, Elizabeth F., 2016 online

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P

Parker, Michael, 2003
Parsons, Chelsey, Fall 2025 

Patterson, Laura Sloan, 2020 online 
2018 online
2017 online 

Peedin, Jennifer, Winter 2023

Piacentino, Ed, 2011 

Pickering, Dustin, Fall 2025 

Poston, David E., Fall 2025
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Winter 2023 

Poteat, Michael, 2004

Powell, Tara, 2014 online

Proctor, Lisa, 2015 online 

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David E. Poston, 3rd-place winner of the 2020 James Applewhite Poetry Prize, is quickly becoming a regular reviewer. (Read his poem in NCLR 2021.)

R

Rasbury, Angeli R., 2000 

Redmond, Lois, 1994

Reeves, Brandy, 2021 online 

Ripatrazone, Nick, 2013 online 

Richards, Gary 2020 online 
2015 online 
2014 online 
2000 online 

Roberts, Terry, Winter 2025
Fall 2023 
2019 online

Robinson, Lorraine Hale, Fall 2022
2021 online 
2020 online
2015 online 
2014 online
2011 
2010 
2008

Robles, Amanda Shingleton, 2021 online

Rochelle, Warren, 2017 online
2010 

Rode, Curt, 1998 

Rose, Elisabeth, 1995 

Ryan, John Charles, Fall 2024

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In addition to the entries to the serialized Dictionary of NC Writers, Senior Associate Editor Lorraine Hale Robinson wrote the occasional book review – and cooked for up to 75 people when NCLR co-hosted the Eastern NC Literary Homecoming.

S

Schmidt, Susan, 2011 

Schlobin, Roger C., 1996

Scura, Dorothy M., 1998

Segura, Laura, 2016 online

Shands, Kertin W., 2000

Shields Jr., E. Thomson, 2019 online 
2003

Shifflett, Joan Romano, 2017 online

Sidhu, Nicole Nolan, 2006 

Simpson, Bland, 2024
1994 

Simpson, Megan, 1996 
1994 
Spring 1993 

Skyes, Hannah Crane, 2019 online
2018 online 

Slavitt, David R., 1994 

Smith, Evan, Fall 2025
Winter 2025 

Smith, Jimmy Dean, Spring 2024
Winter 2022 
2021 online 
2019 online

Smith, Julia Ridley, Winter 2024 

Smith, Megan, Fall 2020 

Southern, Kristi, Fall 2025 
Winter 2025

Sparrow, 1993

Springer, Robin, 2000

Squint, Kristin L., 2017

Squire, Walter, 2018 online
1999

Stead, Helen, Winter 2022
2021 online
2020 online 
2019 online

Steen, John, 2015 online 

Stevens, Amanda, 2012 online 

Summerlin, Donna J., 2002 

Sykes, Hannah, 2020 online 

Sykes, Hannah Crane, 2019 online 
2018 online 

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Editorial Assistant Megan Smith (right) published reviews while an ECU graduate assistant and after her graduation.

T

Tanner, Dwight, Fall 2025

Taylor, Art, 2012 online
2009

Tedesco, Laureen, 2008

Tews, Jamie, Spring 2024

Thiesen William H., 1999

Thomas, Amber Flora, 2021 online 

Thomas, Elaine, Spring 2025
Winter 2025 
Fall 2024 
Winter 2023

Thomsen, Melinda, Winter 2024

Thornton, Mary Kathryn, 2000 

Tilley, Wendy, Winter 2025 
Spring 2025
Fall 2024

Trayers, Shane, Winter 2024

Trotter, William R., 1999

Trzepacz, Abby, Fall 2025
Spring 2024 

Turner, Dennis, Fall 2022 

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Ulibarri, Kristy L., 2016 online 

Underwood, Susan O’Dell, Fall 2022

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Vernon, Zackary, Winter 2024
Winter 2022
2018 online
2015 online
2013 online

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W

Walker, Eric C., Fall 2022
2021 online
2020 online
2018 online

Ward, David C., 1997 

Watson, Dwight, 2000 

Watson, Reginald, 2021 online

Webber, Patrick R., Spring 2025

West, Mark I., Spring 2025
Winter 2022

West, Robert M.  Spring 2025  
Fall 2024 
Winter 2024 
2021 online  
2021 online 
2020 online 
2019 online 
2017  
2013 online
2011 
2009 

Whetstone, Stephanie, Winter 2025

White, Michael 
2019 online 

Wilhelm, Randall, Spring 2024 
2016 online

Willis, Meredith Sue, 1997 

Wilson, Emily Herring, 2021 online 
2019 online

Wilson, Henry L., Winter 2024

Wilson, Heather D., Winter 2024

Winter, Meredith, Winter 2023 

Wolf, Thomas, 2016 online  

Woodford Annie, Winter 2024 

Wright, Susan Prothro, 2010 

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Regular reviewer Robert M. West is the editor of the this volume of the poetry of National Book Award winning A.R. Ammons of Eastern North Carolina.

Y

Yardley, Jonathan, 2010

York, Jake Adam, 2013 online 
2002
2001 

Youmans, Marly, 2020 online 

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Zacharias, Lee, 2007 

Zheng, John, Winter 2022 
2019 online

Zhu, Mayee, 2021 online

Zipf, Karin, Winter 2025

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