cor·pus cal·lo·sum /kôrpəs kəˈlōsəm/
the band of commissural fibers connecting the cerebral hemispheres in the brains of higher mammals, including humans
Corpus Callosum Press LLC is a literary press, based in Hastings, Nebraska, that specializes in new fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Like our quite small and unassuming neurological namesake, we aim to connect: through literature and visual art, through shared experiences, through recognition of our common humanity.
In addition to publishing new literary works, Corpus Callosum Press LLC offers a wide range of editing, design, and writing services. Eric R. Tucker, the managing editor of Corpus Callosum Press, has over twenty-five years of professional editing and publishing experience; projects have included novels, memoirs, short story collections, academic articles, textbooks, scholarly journals, and literary magazines, as well as many other works of fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry. His freelance editing projects have ranged from heavy developmental edits to medium mechanical edits to light touch-ups. Tucker is the editor and publisher of Plainsongs poetry journal (2015-) and The Corpus Callosum journal (2023-) as well as the short story collection Children of the Night: Stories (Casimir, 2018) and the memoir Of Moose and Me: Animal Tales from an Alaskan Childhood (Wardell, 2019). He has taught writing, editing, publishing, and journalism classes at the University of Oregon, the University of Illinois at Springfield, Western Illinois University, Hastings College, Central Community College, and Doane University. Tucker holds an MFA in creative writing, with an emphasis in fiction writing, and a master’s degree in journalism, with an emphasis in long-form feature writing, science reporting, and copy editing.
The associate editors of Plainsongs poetry journal are poets Becky Faber, Michael Catherwood, and Eleanor Reeds.
Becky Faber is the author of One Small Photo. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, including Nebraska Presence (Backwaters Press). She has presented for the Willa Cather Foundation Virtual Author Series. For over twenty-five years Becky has been an associate editor for Plainsongs (Hastings, Nebraska). She was the 2021 recipient of the Mildred Bennett Award, given by the Nebraska Center for the Book “for exceptional literary contributions.”
Michael Catherwood’s books are Dare, If You Turned Around Quickly, Projector from Stephen F. Austin Press, and Near Misses from WSC Press. He was former editor at The Backwaters Press and has been an associate editor at Plainsongs since 1995. Recent poems have appeared in The Opiate, As It Ought to Be Magazine, Pennsylvania English, Zoetic Press, and Common Ground Review. He’s a cancer survivor, retired, and lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, Cindy.
Eleanor Reeds is a poet, scholar, and educator, who currently serves as an assistant professor of English at Hastings College. Her research focuses on voice and genre in transatlantic literature and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Victorian Poetry and American Literary Realism. Dr. Reeds is an associate editor for the poetry magazine Plainsongs, which has featured her poems and essays. Her creative work has also been published in Long River Review and aurora journal.