Our Staff


Editor-in-Chief: Peter Krok has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Schuylkill Valley Journal since 2001. The journal was founded in 1990. Peter is also Nonfiction Editor.



Poetry Editor: Jane Edna Mohler is the 2020 Bucks County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate. She won the 2016 Main Street Voices Poetry Prize and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Kelsay Books published her collection, Broken Umbrellas, in 2019. She has been on faculty for several years at Maryland’s Bay to Ocean Writers’ Conference, and the 2021 Caesura conference. She earned her BA in English at University of Massachusetts at Boston, her EdM in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, and further graduate work in leadership at Lehigh University. She was a counselor in a variety of settings, and an advocate for homeless education rights.


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Fiction Editor: Frances Metzman authored a novel, The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way (Wild River Books) that came out June, 2018. That novel was a Best Seller on Amazon, and a Pushcart Prize finalist. She’s had a short story collection published, February 1, 2012, The Hungry Heart Stories (Wilderness House Press) Before that she co-authored and published a novel, Ugly Cookies (Pella Press). Having published 24 short stories in college and university journals, she also addresses panels at various writing conferences (such as; Philadelphia Stories and Marymount Manhattan College, Rosemont College-Push to Publish). She has given numerous workshops at various universities such as Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Penn State, Widener and many others. Also, she presently teaches creative writing/memoir workshops at Temple University’s adult program, OLLI. At Rosemont College, she taught publishing/writing skills to grad students. She writes many articles that have been published in online journals



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Art Editor: David P. Kozinski received the 2018 Established Professional Poetry Fel­lowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. His first full-length book of poems, Tripping Over Memorial Day was published by Kelsay Books in 2017. He received the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, which included publica­tion of his chapbook, Loopholes (Broadkill Press). Kozinski was named 2018 Mentor of the Year by Expressive Path, a non-profit that encourages youth participation in the arts. He serves on the Board of the Manayunk-Roxbor­ough Art Center and the Editorial Board of Philadelphia Stories. Kozinski is Art Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.


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Print Production Editor / Layout Design: Ed Hart comes from a long line of artists, writers, musicians, craftspeople, and teachers. Ed has 20+ years of experience in graphic design, production, marketing, and brand development and maintenance, in addition to personal artistic pursuits. In 2013, Ed brought his enjoyment of creative collaboration from New York City to greater Philadelphia to live with his wife Laura. They have cats, though Ed would like a goat, sheep, llama, dog, and especially a koi pond.


Staff Photographer: Ron Howard is a photographer, painter, poet and the current President of the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center (MRAC), an art and humanities center in Philadelphia, which hosts many SVJ events. Along with his talents as a photographer, visual artist and writer, and his appreciation of the arts, Howard has brought his non-profit organizational development and international institution building skills to the MRAC. He was Chief Operations Officer for the Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI) for more than thirty years and served from 2004 to 2007 as the organization's Acting CEO, prior to his retirement in 2007. The global OIC movement was started in Philadelphia by Rev. Leon H. Sullivan.


Features Writer: Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on sculpture appear in the Schuylkill Valley Journal in which he is a contributing editor. His wry writing has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Apiary Magazine, Fox Chase Review,  and other journals.  Mike has performed in cafes, libraries, book stores and venues from Princeton’s Café Improv to Harlem’s Apollo Theater to Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery Mike's poetry can be found at http://mikecohensays.com/ and in his book BETWEEN THE I'S.


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Contributing Writer: Eric Greinke has been active on the international literary scene since the early seventies. His poems and essays have been published in hundreds of magazines, most recently in The American Journal of Poetry, Rosebud, North Dakota Quarterly, Trajectory and the Bryant Literary Review.  His book For The Living Dead – Selected Poems (Presa Press & Simon Pulse, 2014) has been downloaded over three million times and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His new collection of poetry is Break Out (Presa Press, 2020). He has worked in the Michigan Artists In The Schools Program and as a creative writing teacher at Grand Rapids City School, an experimental public school. He has also been an active reviewer of over one hundred poetry books over the past fifty years. www.ericgreinke.com