Who’s running this thing?

Founder & Editor

Norah Vawter is a freelance journalist, editor, and fiction writer. She spent five years as the Local Authors Editor of online magazine DCTRENDING.com, where she created and championed the Local Authors section. Norah has published creative writing in Memoir Magazine, Nassau Review, This is What America Looks Like, journalism in The Washington Post and Otherwords, and reviews in Washington Independent Review of Books and DCTRENDING, among others. Norah holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from George Mason and is represented by Victress Literary. Her first novel, a finalist for the Eludia Award and longlisted for the Dzanc Prize, is on submission. She lives with her family in the D.C. area.

Founder & Editor

Gregory Luce is the author of six books of poems: Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Memory and Desire, Tile, Riffs & Improvisations and Smells Like Rain. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Innisfree Poetry Review, If, Northern Virginia Review, Juke Jar, Praxilla, Little Patuxent Review, Buffalo Creek Review, and in several anthologies. He serves as Chair of the Editorial Board of The Mid-Atlantic review. In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Retired after 32 years from National Geographic, he now lives in Arlington, VA. He is a volunteer writing tutor and mentor with 826DC.

Want to write for us?

Are you interested in writing for Washington Unbound? We are actively looking for contributors to this new journal. If you are interested in writing reviews or interviews, please email us at Washington.Unbound@gmail.com, tell us a little about yourself and your writing background, and include a writing sample.