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

Truth Thomas Times Two

From Tennessee to the Gaza Strip, Truth Thomas’ genius lies in his ability to take us places where we’ve never been before…the message is always clear, the craft exquisite and masterful. –Randall Horton, author of The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street   Truth Thomas, one of our contributing editors, is on our Salon Series schedule […]

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by Ilse Munro

Words in Time

One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and be the first person ever to make that discovery. –The Official Google Blog, 12/16/2010 11:08:00 AM Only days after Google’s Books Ngram Viewer went live, I was hooked. […]

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by Ilse Munro

The End of an Era

There was a time when we could not think of anyone but Michael R. Clark as editor of Little Patuxent Review, but now we must. As Clark began his third year in Singapore and his first as Chairman of the English Department at Singapore American School, he reluctantly resigned his position at LPR. Clark has graciously […]

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by Ilse Munro

LPR Selects New Editor

…I think it has a lot to do with growing up and hearing the different accents, the different diction…I think that that had a huge effect on my writing style and how I pay attention to people’s voices…(JMWW, 2010) Laura Shovan grew up in a bi-cultural family. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was […]

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