Meet the Authors Series: Russel Reece

Since 2003, Russell Reece’s poems, stories and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has received fellowships in literature from the Delaware Division of the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts along with Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations.

Russel was a finalist in short story in both the 2012 and 2015 William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing contests. He has won or been a finalist in many local and regional contests. His book of dark stories, The Mud Lake Trilogy, was released in May 2014. Russell served as a fiction editor for The Fox Chase Review 2014 -15, as a reader for The Little Patuxent Review 2020 - 22, and as a co-host of 2nd Saturday Poets in Wilmington, Delaware for over 12 years.