Author: Ilse Munro

Ilse Munro was born in Latvia and came to the United States as a war refugee. She was a NASA and Defense Department consultant, then the online editor at Little Patuxent Review and the prose editor at BrickHouse Books. Her short fiction, collected in Cold and Hungry and Far From Home, appears in TriQuarterly, Atticus Review and Wake and made her a finalist in the Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest and Short Story Award for New Writers. Her novel Anna Noon is in the works. She lives in a historic millworker’s house on Maryland's Patapsco River. For more, see http://ilsemunro.com.

by Ilse Munro

On Being Invisible: Foreign Authors

This essay is one of a series inspired by the Little Patuxent Review Winter 2012 Social Justice issue. The first one was posted September 2011, and all feature people who have helped make marginalized segments of our world visible to mainstream America through poetry, prose and visual art. When Swedish writer, poet and translator Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the 2011 […]

by Ilse Munro

Reader Response: A Red Venetian Bottle and Henry Niese

We love getting your reactions to the material we post. If your message contains new information or images relevant to the one of our posts, we’ll even publish it as a separate piece. Here’s what one reader had to say about “Concerning Craft: Henry Niese (and William Carlos Williams).” Ilse, Just read your article. I quite enjoyed […]

by Ilse Munro

Concerning Craft: Henry Niese (and William Carlos Williams)

The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. In this case, that occurred in a rather roundabout way… Right after we opened the submissions period for our Social Justice issue, I sent Henry Niese a message. […]

by Ilse Munro

On Being Invisible: Welfare Recipients

This essay is one of a series inspired by the Little Patuxent Review Winter 2012 Social Justice issue. The first was posted September 2011, and all feature individuals who have helped make marginalized segments of our world visible to mainstream America through poetry, prose and visual art. This September, the Census Bureau released a report indicating that a record 46.2 […]

by Ilse Munro

Poets for Social Justice

As part of the lead-up to the launch of the Winter 2012 Social Justice issue, Little Patuxent Review sponsored the Poets for Social Change panel at the Baltimore Book Festival, moderated by the guest editor for the issue, Truth Thomas. Afterward, LPR Editor Laura Shovan continued the conversation with one of the panelists, Kathleen Hellen. Here’s some of what they had […]