Sakura Review was founded in 2008 in the District of Columbia.

Julia Leverone, Editor/Translations

Julia Leverone is a poet, translator, and comparatist. She has her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. She has two poetry chapbooks; Little Escape (forthcoming 2017, JMWW) won the 2016 Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award. She works as an adjunct lecturer of Spanish and creative writing.

Adam Pellegrini, Poetry Editor

Daniel Knowlton, Prose Editor

Daniel lives and writes in rural Maryland. He was awarded a semester fellowship to the D.C. Writer's Room in 2013 where he began work on his current novel-in-progress. His stories have appeared in F(r)iction, Little Fiction, and Up Literature. His non-fiction has been nominated for the Intro Journals Project and his playwriting has been performed by the D.C. theater troupe The Wandering Souls. 


​​Emily Myrick, Prose Reader

Emily Myrick is a second-year M.F.A. fiction candidate at the University of Maryland. She is originally from Marietta, Georgia and holds an M.A. in English from Georgia State University. She received a 2014 Herman B. Wells Fellowship from the Indiana University Writers’ Conference and has served as an associate fiction editor for the Indiana Review and a juror for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Emily is currently at work on a novel.
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