Breath & Shadow

Breath & Shadow is a collaborative effort by AbilityMaine's staff, Norman Meldrum and Steve Hoad; our fiscal sponsor, Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC); and Breath & Shadow's own editorial staff, led by Chris Kuell, the Editor in Chief.

Editorial Board:

Editor in Chief
Chris Kuell

Managing Editor
Chris Kuell

Poetry Staff
Abigail Astor
Anne Chiapetta
Linda Cronin
Arden Hill

Fiction Staff
Dorothy Baker
Jeanette Beal
Anne Chiapetta
Stephanie Green
Erika Jahneke
Erin Lewy
Robin Mayhall
Tricia Owsley

Nonfiction Staff
Dorothy Baker
Jeanette Beal
Erika Jahneke
Erin Lewy
Robin Mayhall
Tricia Owsley

Theater Editor
Paul Kahn

Proofreading/Copyediting
Abigail Astor

About the Editor-in-Chief

Chris Kuell is a blind writer and advocate living in Western Connecticut. A former research chemist, he lost his sight at thirty–five as a result of diabetic retinopathy. A few years later, he learned how to use a computer with speech output and turned his efforts to writing. He's had more than two dozen articles about blindness published, and His fiction has appeared in Spillway Review, Bewildering Stories, Breath & Shadow, Apollo's Lyre, Gambit, Mountain Echoes, Decomposition, The Sun, Dialogue, and in the anthology, Northern Haunts (Shroud Publishing, 2008). He was an editor and contributed to the anthology, Mountain Voices: Illuminating the Character of West Virginia. He is currently seeking a publisher for Disconnected, a novel about how Alzheimer's disease affects a family and tests the bonds of love. He is also hard at work on his second novel, Rub It In, about a blind massage therapist caught in a thorny love triangle.