Photo by Leeta Harding
Elizabeth Varel
Editor-in-Chief
Fiction Editor
Elizabeth Varel holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University where she loved teaching composition and research writing. She is the Founding Editor of Parhelion and the director of the RVA Lit Walk.
Darren Morris
Poetry Editor
Darren Morris’s poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, The Missouri Review, New England Review, North American Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Raritan, The Southern Review, and others. He earned his BA from the University of Missouri and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is one of the founding editors of Parhelion.
Darren’s newest work can be found at The Roanoke Review and The Raleigh Review.
Rebecca Moon Ruark
Associate Editor
Features Editor
Rebecca Moon Ruark’s short fiction has appeared in journals and literary magazines including Sou’wester, Carve, Little Patuxent Review, Flock, Barren Magazine, and here in Parhelion, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can hear her read her story, “Recruit,” on Flock‘s site. An Ohio native, Rebecca is a graduate of the VCU MFA program. She’s currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories set in the Rust Belt. She blogs as Rust Belt Girl.
S.L. Brown
Creative Nonfiction Editor
S. L. Brown writes about law and real estate. Her work has appeared in publications such as Slate, The New York Law Journal, The Bangalore Review, The Billfold, and The Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories.
Photo by Tom Brennan
Leeta Harding
Art Director
Leeta Harding is a professional photographer in New York City. Born in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, she moved to New York to study photography at 22 and began working for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Spin, and New York. Known for her iconic portraits of Scarlett Johansson and Patricia Arquette and her fashion-forward Missoni campaigns, Leeta’s passion is photographing the hidden and little known places in the South where time stands still. Her work is widely published, most recently in Gun & Garden, The Bitter Southerner, and Nativen.
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