Breakwater Review is an online arts journal committed to publishing poetry and prose by established and emerging writers. We're looking for sincere, well-crafted work that takes us somewhere unexpected and sticks with us.

Breakwater Review is published in two issues per year, in January and June. Deadlines for submission to each issue and information about our reading periods can be found on our Submissions page.

Our team of staff and volunteers is drawn from UMB students. The journal is supported, but not governed by, the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. 

Issue 3 Editorial Staff

Andra Hibbert, Managing Editor

Andra Hibbert is a fiction student in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She grew up in rural Vermont, and has a BA in Economics and Gender Studies from Williams College in 2005. She came to focus on her writing after spending several years doing economics research.

Calvin Hennick, Associate Managing Editor, Non-fiction Editor

Calvin Hennick is a fiction student in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His essays and journalism have appeared in two dozen publications, including The Boston Globe Magazine, Runner's World, and Scholastic Instructor. Before turning his attention to writing, he taught seventh-grade English in the South Bronx with Teach For America, and he holds a master’s degree in teaching from Pace University. An Iowa native, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Iowa in 2004.

Ezra Fox, Associate Editor 

Shea Mullaney, Production Manager, Interim Arts Editor

Danielle Jones-Pruett, Poetry Editor

Danielle Jones-Pruett is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work has been published in the Birmingham Arts Journal, Freethought Today, and the Southern Women's Review. Danielle detests writing about herself in third person, but loves reading your poetry.

Poetry Readers 2009-2010

• Kathleen Raddatz
• Rad Thie

Fiction Readers 2009-2010

• Jesse Priest
• Abby Machson-Carter 
• Lisa Duffy
• Jay Wolan
• Andy Hughes
• Patricia Peterson
• Frank Morris
• Meghan Hancock
• Kathleen McKenna