Staff / Contact
Founder/Director— Joseph M. Reynolds is a novelist, essayist, and professor. He is the author of the novel Make Dust our Paper, which was reviewed by Washington Post best book award winner Da Chen as "an instant classic, a major new talent has arrived." His novella Run It Once is forthcoming in 2026. He teaches college in New England, Washington, DC, and Ireland, and as an undergraduate he was an intern and speechwriter in the U.S. Senate office of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. In addition to directing the residency program, he is also the editor in chief of New Square Literary Magazine (the official publication of the Sancho Panza Literary Society), and its featured essayist. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Liberal Studies at Wesleyan University.
Contact Joe at ajoreynolds@fordham.edu.
Guest Faculty— Brenda Flanagan is a die-hard Wolverine who earned her B.A. with distinction, M.A. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she won three Major Avery and Julie Hopwood awards for novel, short story, and drama. Author of the prize-winning novel, You Alone Are Dancing, its sequel, Allah in the Islands, a collection of short stories, In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes, Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean Literatures, African and World Literatures at Davidson College where, in 2019, she was awarded the prestigious Hunter Hamilton Prize for excellence in teaching. Her most recent book, Women's Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia was published in 2023, and a chapter from her work-in-progress about the year she spent with Nina Simone appeared in Ms. Magazine in 2018. Since 2003, Flanagan has served as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador in 15 countries. A native of Trinidad, Flanagan recently won the Canute Prize, and her work has appeared in numerous US and international magazines.
Contact Brenda at Brendaflanagan@ymail.com
Teaching Faculty:
Joseph Reynolds - Summer Prose & Sophisticants Program
Stephanie Pushaw - Montana Session
Rose Malone (Irish author and university lecturer) - Teaching Fellow
Cora Enterline (BA, NYU; MPhil, Trinity College Dublin; New Square literature review editor) - Teaching Fellow
Harry Lowther (New Square staff writer and music review editor) - Teaching Fellow
Head of Fundraising and Events: Jordan Micoley
Newsletter Editor: Caleope Meraki
Head of Digital: Sam Marx
Contact sanchopanzalit@gmail.com for any staff inquiries.
