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 Midway Journal, the New England Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Mud Season, Lily Poetry Journal, Arkana and The Hopper.
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 in Barren Magazine, The Common, River Teeth, Bellevue Literary Review and elsewhere. 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). 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 earned her MFA at Hamline University, and made her way from St. Paul to Istanbul, Turkey, and Bonn, Germany, before settling on the edge of a rainforest in Douglas, Alaska. Her recent work appears in the UAS journal Tidal Echoes, in Alaska Women Speak, and on Juneau bus #6660. Follow her online at https://angelfrommontgomery.org/.
Sleet Lady
Irregular Editor
Sleet Lady has been nominated 110 times for a Pushcart Prize. Rumor has it Sleet Lady nominated herself for the Nobel Prize, twice. And, she loves telling the tale of sittng at the bar with Hemingway when he penned his famous one-line short story. Sleet Lady pioneered NASA's new top-secret poetry project, Flying Pearls, until it unfortunately was cancelled due to budget cuts, and is now busy developing a new cryptocurrency, Sleetcoin. Sleet Lady was always interested in American politics and claims to be one of the first American women cartoons to vote. She has worked as a medic in numerous wars and conflicts around the globe, and was happy to server as a volunteer frontline worker offering vaccinations to her fellow cartoons.