Halfway Down the Stairs is a quarterly literary magazine established in 2005 to publish cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by talented writers.  New issues are published every March, June, September, and December.

If you would like to contact us, feel free to drop us a line at halfway · stairs @ gmail · com. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates. We are an entirely not-for-profit publication and our talented team of editors are all volunteers. This allows us to keep this website advertisement-free.

Most of our photography or art is sourced from open access repositories. We’re particularly grateful to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open access archive and to Unsplash. Any photos taken by our editors, or submitted to us, are credited. Our cover image for Strange Bedfellows is an image from the Palazzo Sagredo.

POETRY EDITORS

Jeannie E. Roberts has authored eight books, six poetry collections and two illustrated children’s books. Her most recent collection is titled The Ethereal Effect – A Collection of Villanelles (Kelsay Books, 2022). She is an award-winning artist and poet, listed in the Poets & Writers directory, and is a Best of the Net and an Eric Hoffer award nominee. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education and a Master of Arts degree in arts and cultural management (arts administration/nonprofit management).

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 has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Case Western Reserve University and lives in Michigan, where she works in academic services. She enjoys spending as much time as she can with her husband and her two boys. Her hobbies include traveling, listening to music and going to concerts, spending all day cooking, and reading.

 
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.