Jess E. Jelsma
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Editorial Experience


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Responsibilities
​Editorial
  • Manuscript evaluation
  • Developmental editing
  • Copyediting
  • Layout and typesetting
  • ​Proofing​​​
​Marketing & Communications
  • Social media
  • Newsletters​
  • Partnerships
  • ​Launch parties and fundraising events
  • Conference involvement
Operations & Management
  • Production, marketing, and financial calendars
  • Annual budget and monthly financial reports
  • Payroll, vendor payments and contracts
  • Website and database maintenance
  • Nonprofit tax and legal requirements​

​Leadership
  • Strategic planning with board and leadership team
  • Supervising contractors and editorial team
  • Recruitment and hiring
  • DEI policies and initiatives ​​
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Positions
Curator of "Art and Activism" Feature
  • Issue 18.1, Summer 2021

​Associate Editor
  • Issue 17.1, Summer 2020
  • Issue 16.2, Winter 2020

Reader for Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose
  • ​Issue 17.1, Summer 2020​

Assistant Editor​
  • ​Issue 16.1, Summer 2019
  • Issue 15.2, Winter 2019​

​​Volunteer Editorial Assistant
  • Issue 15.1, Summer 2018​​
About
Print Issues (nationally distributed)
  • ​Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Reviews​​
  • Affiliated with Acre Books and the University of Cincinnati 

miCRo Series (online)
  • Prose of 500 words or less and poetry of 32 lines or less​

CR Blog (online)
  • Editors' Dispatches
  • Interviews
  • Submission Trends and Tips
  • Why We Like It
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Positions​
Assistant Nonfiction Editor
  • Issue 42.1, Fall/Winter 2015

Editorial Intern
  • Issue 40.1, Fall/Winter 2013​ ​​
  • Issue 39.2, Spring/Summer 2013
About
​Print Issues (nationally distributed)
  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art​​
  • Affiliated with the University of Alabama MFA Program in Creative Writing
  • ​Graduate-student run

Sample Work


Ruminate
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Cincinnati Review
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