Halfway Down the Stairs is a quarterly literary magazine established in 2005 to publish cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by promising new writers. New issues are published every March, June, September, and December.
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Most of our photography or art is sourced from open access archives. Any photos taken by our editors, or submitted to us, are credited. The artwork used as the coverpage for our Love & War issue is The Love Song, by Edward Burne-Jones (sourced from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open access archives).
POETRY EDITORS
Jeannie E. Roberts lives in west-central Wisconsin. She has authored five poetry collections and two children’s books. As If Labyrinth – Pandemic Inspired Poems was recently released by Kelsay Books. She’s listed in Poets & Writers and her work appears in print and online in North American and international journals and anthologies. She’s an animal lover, a nature enthusiast, and an equal rights advocate. When she’s not reading, writing, or editing, you can find her drawing and painting, or outdoors photographing her natural surroundings.
Phillip Watts Brown lives in Logan, Utah. He earned his MFA in poetry from Oregon State University and his poems have appeared in various journals. Whenever he and his husband travel, they visit local art museums—and now he works at one. In his spare time, he enjoys movies, podcasts, and drawing. He also loves almost every kind of tea.
FICTION EDITORS
Alison Stedman lives in New Zealand and works in the public sector. She has grown accustomed to earthquakes and enjoys playing music and escaping to the mountains. She has a cat named Hermione. Alison is also a photography/web editor for HDtS.
Carrie Bachler lives in Michigan, where she works in academic services. She enjoys traveling to wineries and brewpubs with her husband; playing make believe with her five-year old son; cuddling her newborn; working endlessly on house renovations, and losing herself in novels with the company of her cat or her bed.
Sherri Miller is the founder and senior editor of A Golden Place. She is the former editor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Jude Bridge newsletter, and the Cincinnati, Ohio, United Italian Society La Voce II newsletter. As a classically trained musician, Sherri performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra between the ages of ten and seventeen, and attended college at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Sherri resides in sunny Southeast Florida.
NONFICTION EDITORS
Stacy Wennstrom lives in Southeast Michigan. She likes cooking spicy vegetarian foods, hiking, Zumba, brewpubs, and Hitchcock movies. She loves to travel and is currently longing to go every place that she cannot afford.
Milena Nigam lives in southwestern PA. She is working on a collection of short stories, and likes to balance her fiction writing time with personal essays. Milena recently made her first from-scratch cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing, loves her garden but is haunted by weeds whenever she closes her eyes, and wishes she spent more time watching movies and musicals.
