Lenore Myers’s poems and essays can be found in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, LIT, and One, among other literary journals. Her chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. She teaches English as a Second Language at the Napa Adult School and is a faculty writing tutor and ESL instructor at Napa Valley College.
In accepting our invitation to join Sixteen Rivers, Myers writes: “I am excited to join the Sixteen Rivers Press collective. Although I now live in Napa, I am an Oakland native, dating from the early days of zines and micro-presses and parties run out of live-work lofts. I look forward to learning about the operations of an independent, writer-run Northern California press that has sustained itself throughout so much change in the publishing industry. And, of course, I am looking forward to working with the members of the press over the next few years!”
Each year, Sixteen Rivers selects new members on the basis of book-length manuscripts of poems submitted during our reading period from November 1 to February 1. Typically, one or two manuscripts are chosen, and their authors join the press as active members for a minimum of three years.
Myers’s book will be published by the press in 2026, along with a second book by Dane Cervine, a third book by Carolyn Miller, and Plagios, Volume III, the third volume in our bilingual series by Mexican poet Ulalume González de León.