Staff / Contact

Founder/Director— Joseph M. Reynolds is a novelist, essayist, and professor.  He is the author of the novel Make Dust our Paper, which was reviewed by Washington Post best book award winner Da Chen as "an instant classic, a major new talent has arrived. His second novel is forthcoming in 2025. He teaches college in New England, Washington, DC, and Ireland, and as an undergraduate he was an intern and speechwriter in the U.S. Senate office of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. In addition to directing the residency program, he is also the editor in chief of New Square Literary Magazine (the official publication of the Sancho Panza Literary Society), and its featured essayist. 

Contact Joe at ajoreynolds@fordham.edu.

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Associate Director— Sean Frederick Forbes is an Associate Professor-in-Residence of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and is a summer instructor for the Yale Young Writers Workshop at Yale University. His poems have appeared in Chagrin River Review, Sargasso, A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture, Crab Orchard Review, Long River Review, and other publications. In 2009, he received a Woodrow Wilson Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant for travel to Providencia, Colombia. Providencia, his first book of poetry, was published in 2013 by 2Leaf Press. On March 17, 2014, his poem “Cashel Man” was featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day online series Poem-A-Day. For 2020-2021 academic year, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute. He serves as the poetry editor for New Square, the official publication of The Sancho Panza Literary Society for which he is a founding member. In 2017, he received first place in the Nutmeg Poetry Contest from the Connecticut Poetry Society.

Contact Sean at sean.forbes@uconn.edu

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Guest Faculty— Brenda Flanagan is a die-hard Wolverine who earned her B.A. with distinction, M.A. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she won three Major Avery and Julie Hopwood awards for novel, short story, and drama. Author of the prize-winning novel, You Alone Are Dancing, its sequel, Allah in the Islands, a collection of short stories, In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes, Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean Literatures, African and World Literatures at Davidson College where, in 2019, she was awarded the prestigious Hunter Hamilton Prize for  excellence in teaching. Her most recent book, Women's Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia was published in 2023, and a chapter from her work-in-progress about the year she spent with Nina Simone appeared in Ms. Magazine in 2018. Since 2003, Flanagan has served as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador in 15 countries. A native of Trinidad, Flanagan recently won the Canute Prize, and her work has appeared in numerous US and international magazines.

Contact Brenda at Brendaflanagan@ymail.com

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