A year after The Greenleaf Review won the second-place Outstanding Literary Arts Journal Award from the national English honor society Sigma Tau Delta, it has earned its second national award.
The 2024 issue “Catharsis” was recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English for being a “Superior” collegiate arts and literary magazine.
The magazine is edited, created, and published exclusively by Whittier College students. Following the win, the publication had a new advising professor join the ranks. For the past five years, The Greenleaf Review has been produced and published in Senior Lecturer of English Language and Literature Joe Donnelly’s English 312 class, Editing and Publishing Emerging Media.
This year, Associate Professor of English Michelle Chihara joins Donnelly as a co-instructor, bringing her previous experience as the Editor-in-Chief of The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“I’m thrilled to bring my editorial experience to a mentor position for this exciting Whittier publication,” Chihara said. “I think there’s a lot of energy and possibility in the room.”