Pictured from Left: Daisy Collins (BFA in Graphic Design Intern), Professor Nathaniel Infante (Art Editor), Jennifer Jeffery (Managing Editor), Dr. Donald McNutt (Editor), Jonah Kwasnowski (BFA in Creative Writing Intern), Professor Sara Cantwell (Poetry Editor). Not pictured: Dr. Claudia Ford (Nonfiction Editor), Rylie Baker (Sociology and Psychology Double Major Intern).
Photo Credit: Jason Hunter, Potsdam College Communications.
Blueline Editors & Interns
Editors & Interns for Blueline Volume 46 (2025)
Editor Donald J. McNutt
Managing Editor Jennifer Jeffery
Poetry Editor Sara L. Cantwell
Fiction Editor Donald J. McNutt
Nonfiction Editor Claudia J. Ford
Art Editor Nathaniel Infante
Founding Editor Alice Wolf Gilborn
Interns Rylie Baker
Daisy Collins
Jonah Kwasnowski
Donald J. McNutt, professor emeritus of English at SUNY Potsdam, has served Blueline since 2006, first on its editorial board, and then as Editor-in-Chief from 2009-2025. He has published several books and essays about American cities and the natural world. North Country Magazine and other venues have featured his poems and short stories. His most recent nonfiction appears in this spring’s issue of The Awakenings Review.
Jennifer Jeffery is an academic librarian, writer, and poet who lives on the edge of the Adirondacks. Her writing has been published in the anthology The Weight of My Armor, the Journal of Veterans Studies, and Intertext. She is a member of the Syracuse University Veterans Writing group.
Sara L. Cantwell has an MFA in poetry and fiction and an MA in English and Communication. She’s an adjunct instructor, Illuminacrum Studio Arts LLC lead writer, an avid poet, fiction author, and TTRPG DM. Her work has been published in Art Direct, Blueline, Ghost City Press & Review, Barbaric Yawp, North Country Literary Magazine, The Startup, Mind Murals, and TEDx. Her most recent publication is the How To Survive... Zombies If You’re A Zero Core Rulebook, and her newest public presentation is Cyber-Play: Interactive Digital Storytelling for the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference at Penn State Behrend.
Claudia J. Ford is a professor of Environment & Sustainability Studies at the State University of New York, Potsdam, a Fellow of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, a Fulbright Scholar, a SUNY PRODiG Faculty, and a Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Ford holds degrees in biology, medicine, business administration, fine arts, and a PhD in environmental studies. Claudia teaches and creates responsive mixed media and collage visual arts projects across the subjects of environmental humanities and literature, traditional ecological knowledge, spiritual ecology, entheogenic plant medicine, women’s reproductive health, and sustainable agriculture.
Nathaniel Infante graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 2004 with a BA in Art Studio and Art History. He then attended the University at Buffalo where he received his MFA in Visual Studies with a concentration in printmaking in 2007. Nathaniel joined the SUNY Potsdam Art Department as an Instructional Support Technician and in 2019 accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Printmaking. Throughout, Nathaniel has been engaged in print media such as lithography, photo-litho, intaglio, screenprinting, relief and various other printmaking techniques and has experience teaching courses in art history, drawing, watercolor, digital photography and color and design. He regularly exhibits his work and contributes to community events in the arts.
Alice Wolf Gilborn founded Blueline in the fall of 1979. A former editor at the Adirondack Museum and the Chipstone Foundation, she has co-edited two collections of contemporary poetry (Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont), and her work has appeared in magazines, literary journals and anthologies. She is author of a non-fiction book, What Do You Do with a Kinkajou? (Lippincott), an award-winning collection of essays, Out of the Blue (Potsdam College Press), and two books of poetry, most recently, Apples & Stones from Kelsay Books.
Rylie Baker is a Sociology and Psychology major from southwestern New York. She is the organizer of submissions and correspondence at Blueline. When Rylie is not engaged in wrangling Blueline’s administrative work, she enjoys playing drums as a way to unwind and express herself.
Daisy Collins is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Northern New York. When she is not scribbling drawings into her computer, she enjoys the outdoors with her wonderfully and infuriatingly oversized dog.
Jonah Kwasnowski has a BFA in Creative Writing, and has always loved making and sharing stories. They also enjoy hiking, biking, and taking pictures of their neighbors’ cats.