Garrett Hazelwood – Editor

As the former interim prose editor of The Southern Review, I have a keen editorial eye and a passion for details. I'm dedicated to helping emerging authors make their work the best it can possibly be. I hold an MFA from Louisiana State University, where I was the 2017 and 2018 recipient of the Kent Gramm MFA Award for Literary Nonfiction. I also served as fiction editor of New Delta Review.

In my role as interim prose editor of The Southern Review, I worked to produce one of the most prestigious literary journals in the nation. A core member of our three-person editorial team, I was responsible for selecting and editing over a hundred pages of stories and essays for each issue, which entailed corresponding with a dozen authors while fact-checking, structurally editing, and copy editing each piece. Because our policy at the journal was to write a short paragraph describing the strengths and weaknesses of each submission we received, I’ve also evaluated more than a thousand submissions during my tenure there and have developed a keen eye for constructive critique.

In addition to having a strong editorial background, I also have experience as both a writer and writing instructor. I taught composition courses for two years at Louisiana State University, independently planning and running a class each semester for twenty undergraduate students. While earning my MFA at Louisiana State, I also wrote a three-hundred-page draft of the novel I’m now completing, along with a draft of a book-length essay collection about my time spent working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska.

As someone who has benefitted immensely from the guidance and advise of other writers, I relish the opportunity to pass along my knowledge and support emerging voices.