Editors & Associates
Etruscan Press is headquartered at Wilkes University; however, most of the Etruscan Press team works remotely and can be found all across the U.S.
Pictured to the left is Dr. Harold Cox Hall, which serves as the Etruscan Press headquarters on the Wilkes University campus.
Editors
After working as Managing Editor of Etruscan Press, Amanda Rabaduex became Publisher and Executive Director in 2026. She previously served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and went on to teach yoga before earning a B.A. and M.A. in English, an M.A. in Poetry, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She has held roles with Sundress Press, River and South Review, Penmen Review, and West Trade Review.
She is the author of Resin in the Milky Way (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2024), and her writing and poetry have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in publications such as Raleigh Review, Barren Magazine, and Emerge Literary Journal, and won contests with Sand Hill Literary Magazine, Causeway Lit, and American Writers Review.
Visit her at amandarabaduex.com or contact amanda@etruscanpress.org
Bill Schneider served as Etruscan Press Managing Editor from June 2014 through April 2023. His previous experience includes a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout six continents. He currently serves as consulting editor.
Bill’s essays and short stories have appeared in 10th Ward Lit (Fall/Winter 2024), Route 7 Review (May 2017), The Hamline Lit Journal (April 2017) and Middle Gray Magazine (January 2014). He has also been published in the “No Regrets” issue of Silly Tree Anthologies (2014).
Bill received his Bachelor of Science in Journalism Magna Cum Laude from Suffolk University. He also received his M.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Wilkes University.
Associates
Kari Ward Bayait is a graphic designer who is inspired by art, travel, food and beautiful publications. Those passions have led her to exciting work in marketing for an array of live events and organizations. Kari’s work at Binghamton University has developed a process of design and programming that prioritizes diversity and inclusion. Kari earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Marywood University, and lives in a unique college town in upstate New York.
David Hicks, Ph.D., grew up in New York. A first-generation college student, he earned his doctorate in American Literature at NYU. He has taught at Pace University in New York, Marywood University in Scranton, Mesa State College in Colorado and Regis University in Denver, where he co-founded and co-directed the MFA in Creative Writing. In his 40s he shifted his work from academic to creative, first publishing short stories, then collecting and rearranging them as a novel-in-stories, White Plains, published by Conundrum Press (now Bower House Books) in 2017. White Plains was named the #1 book by Colorado authors by Westword Magazine, was one of three finalists for the Colorado Book Award, and was the 2018 “Village Read” for Arapahoe Libraries in Colorado, a county with more than 600,000 residents). In 2020 he became the new director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. His second novel, The Gospel According to Danny, is in submission, and he is currently hard at work on a novella set in Prague.
Andrew Wilczak received his Ph.D. in sociology from Bowling Green State University in 2011 and will complete his M.F.A. in creative writing at Wilkes University in 2022. He brings to Etruscan a passion for public scholarship and building bridges between the classroom and the community, focusing on ways to use digital platforms to open access to knowledge. Outside of Etruscan, he is an associate professor in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Wilkes University. Originally from the metropolitan Detroit area, he and his family currently live in Mountain Top, PA.
Founders
Philip Brady is co-founder and served as the Executive Director of Etruscan Press from 2001 until 2026.
He is the author of five poetry collections, including The Elsewhere: Poems and Poetics (Broadstone Books) and Weal, winner of the Snyder Prize. He has published two collections of essays and a memoir and edited a critical book on James Joyce and an anthology of contemporary poetry. He is co-editor and contributor for the Etruscan Press title Sign & Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition (2025). His honors include the Ohioana Poetry Award, the Ohio Governor’s Award, A ForeWord Gold Medal, and fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and New York State. He has held residencies at Yaddo, the Millay Colony, and Hawthornden Castle, among others. Brady is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Youngstown State University. He continues to serve on the faculty of the Wilkes University Creative Writing Program.
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Robert Mooney is co-founder and served as Executive Editor of Etruscan Press from 2001 until 2026.
He is the author of the novel Father of the Man (Pantheon, 2002). He has published numerous short stories IN LITERARY MAGAZINES, AND HIS STORY “Halloween” WAS ANTHOLOGIZED IN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE’S THE BOOK OF MEN (PICADOR 2013).
Mooney earned a BA from Boston College and an MA and a PhD from Binghamton University. He later went on to serve as Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University from 1987 to 1997, where he also served as senior editor of MSS, the literary magazine founded by the American novelist John Gardner, AND founded and served as Executive Editor of New Myths Press, publishing the work of some of the finest poets and writers in the country.Mooney is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Washington College, where he directed the O’Neill Literary House. He currently teaches in the low-residency MFA faculty at Wilkes University, and serves on the Honorary Board of Writers at Narrative 4, a global writing initiative begun by National Book Award winning novelist Colum McCann, the mission of which involves the incitement of “radical empathy” among people of all cultures.
Stephen M. Oristaglio is the founding supporter of Etruscan Press. He retired as the Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of SCS Financial in Boston, an investment and private wealth management firm. He has been Head of Investments at Putnam Investments, Global Head of Fixed Income at Swiss Bank Corporation, and a senior bond trader at Salomon Brothers International. Oristaglio was captain of the 1977 Bucknell Basketball team. These days, as Steve Travia, he plays live concerts with the Berklee Full Circle Band in the Boston area.
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