Our Editors

Our Editors #

Matthew Bullen, Founder #

Owner of Liquid Raven Media and a graduate of Lancaster University’s Creative Writing Masters program, Matthew founded Red Ogre Review. Aside from writing, he occasionally produces visual art - a sample portfolio is available on ArtPal. NFTs are available on OpenSea.

Sam Allport, Editor #

Sam studies English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has a passion for editing all types of creative writing, and is interested in genre-bending fiction and unconventional narratives. His favourite books are Ice by Anna Kavan and Insignificance by James Clammer.

Laura Braverman, Editor #

Laura Johanna Braverman’s first collection of poetry, Salt Water, was published in 2019 by Cosmographia Books. She earned her Masters in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her poems have appeared in Plume, Levure Litteraire, Sky Island Journal, and New Plains Review, among other journals, and in the anthology Awake in the World, II. She lives in Lebanon with her family.

Jon Haynes, Editor #

Jon is a writer and one half of the multi-award winning theatre company Ridiculusmus.

Stephanie Hirtenstein, Editor #

Stephanie is a graduate of Lancaster University’s Creative Writing Masters course. Often found staring out the window. Edits, writes, translates.

Julie Lancaster, Editor #

A graduate at Lancaster University having completed the Creative Writing Masters degree, Julie Lancaster’s poems have been published in Spring to Life and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Julie has a neurological movement disorder and is intrigued by the art of writing. She has three grown-up children and lives with her mum who enjoys eating Rich Tea biscuits.

Paweł Kuziemski, Editor #

Paweł Kuziemski is a Polish writer, poet and playwright. He writes about everything unusual because - as he claims - “the most important purpose of writing is to have it written.” He recently completed a Creative Writing Masters at Lancaster University, and he is currently preparing for his Ph.D. Like all good writers, he owns a cat, and he is not afraid to use it (but most of his friends say that the truth is that the cat owns him!).

Catherine Potter, Editor #

Catherine graduated from Lancaster University with a Creative Writing Masters and is undertaking a Ph.D. at Aberdeen University. Catherine lives in Surrey, England with her husband, four sons and three cream cats. She is is old enough to no longer be ashamed to admit her hobbies are reading and writing and is particularly proud she’s never won anything in sports.

Kate Potter, Editor #

Kate is a Creative Writing Masters graduate from Lancaster University. She lives in Hereford with her family and has a published collection of poems called We Are Motherhood.

Interested in Volunteering? #

Would you be interested in guest editing an issue or volunteering to help prepare issues? Email us at info@ogre.red for details.