About Us
Sleet hails from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We love language and the written word, and we welcome both the beautiful and anti-beautiful.
Susan Solomon
Editor
In another life, Susan cleaned funeral homes and vacuumed around the dead. An unspoken element of respect existed within that job; as the intimate invitation into people's lives is never taken lightly. Susan's work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Simply Haiku, elimae, .Cent Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books and Water~Stone Review. Her paintings have shown in the New England Review, Catamaran Literary Reader and Mud Season. The Pond (Green Writers Press 2019), a book of painted poetry done in collaboration with writer Richard Jarrette, will be released at AWP in March 2019.
The Sleet Team – your work is safe with us.
Kathleen McEathron
Fiction Editor
Kathleen McEathron lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She writes fiction when she is not shoveling snow or mowing the lawn. Her goal is to develop characters that could serve as imaginary friends in a pinch.
Pamela Schmid
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Before receiving a 2013-14 Loft Mentor Series award in nonfiction, Pamela Schmid spent nearly a decade as a staff writer for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Tahoma Literary Review and most recently, Bellevue Literary Review. She holds an MFA degree from Hamline University and is currently completing a memoir about the power of silence and words. Often, she can be found scribbling on Post-it® notes or her left palm, whichever is handier. Her online home is pamelaschmid.com.
Todd Pederson
Poetry Editor
Todd Pederson holds an MFA degree in poetry from Hamline University. His work is featured in the mnLit What Light program (www.mnartists.org), and “What Light,” an anthology that collects the work of 27 Minnesota poets. His criticism appears in online editions of the Rain Taxi Review of Books (www.raintaxi.com/online). Todd lives in Eden Prairie with his wife and two children, whom he thanks for their patience and inspiration.
Jamie Buehner
Poetry Editor
Jamie Lynn Buehner is the author of Dessert Poems (Binge Press, 2012). Her recent work appears in pioneertown., Sleet Magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, and the Wisconsin Review. She lives in Alaska.
Sleet Lady
Irregular Editor
Sleet Lady allegedly was instrumental in founding the Iowa Writers Workshop program. She also claims to have invented the cookbook and coined the term “lyric I,” two little known literary facts. She has been nominated 80 times for a Pushcart Prize. Rumor has it Sleet Lady nominated herself for the Nobel Prize, twice. And, she loves to tell the story of how she was at the bar with Hemmingway when he penned his famous one-line short story. Sleet Lady pioneered NASA's new top-secret poetry project, Flying Pearls, recently cancelled due to budget cuts, and is now busy developing a new cryptocurrency, Sleetcoin. AND: Sleet Lady is currently interested in reviewing books, because her opinions are key. Keep an eye out for news on this front.