Who's Who At The Madrid Review
James Hartley
FICTION & POETRY EDITOR
I'm the idiot who thought this would be a good idea.
I come from Liverpool in the UK. After growing up there, and in Singapore and Oman, I wandered about some more before ending up in Madrid, Spain, where I now live with my wife and two children. I work as a teacher here but I've also published a series of YA books called Shakespeare's Moon (Lodestone, London) and poems in various anthologies and websites. I'm an Associate Editor at Tint Journal, which publishes the best in worldwide ESL writing in English and have wanted to do something based in Madrid for years. You can read more here.
For my sins, I'm also an Evertonian.
Here's an interview with me on RTVE talking about the magazine.
Thanks to Ana Gómez for heading our Translation Department.
Jayne Marshall
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Jayne is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared internationally in Prairie Schooner (USA), Transnational Literature (UK) and other magazines and anthologies around the world. She has been nominated for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize (UK) and holds a master’s in creative writing (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. Her debut essay collection, A Line Drawn or Printed: Six Routes Through Madrid, was published in June 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. She previously worked as an editor at a large Spanish publisher before going freelance.
Contact her at jayne.marshall@themadridreview.com
Cliff Shephard
BOOKS
Cliff Shephard has variously been an actor, script editor, postman and comic shop manager. He was at Totnes Bookshop for 18 years and is now at The Bookery, which in 2021 won the UK Independent Bookshop Of The Year and Children's Bookseller Of The Year. He lives in quiet Devon.
Sonia González
EDITOR, LITERATURA EN ESPAÑOL
Me llamo Sonia González y soy castellana de nacimiento y madrileña de adopción. He dedicado mi vida a la enseñanza del español fuera de España y del inglés dentro de ella. Fanática del deporte y la lectura, he vivido en EEUU, Gran Bretaña y en los últimos 20 años en Madrid. Me pierde una buena historia de misterio o una gran historia de amor, y me maravilla el poder de la palabra escrita y cómo vas descubriendo otro mundo según lees, página a página.
Lis Iglesias
ART EDITOR
Lis Iglesias estudia en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid el último año del grado en Historia del Arte y también colabora con frecuencia en la sección de arte y literatura del magazine cultural El Cofre Suena. Publica semanalmente en su blog de Substack, donde comparte reseñas de películas y libros, reflexiones personales y ensayos de actualidad. Además, está trabajando en la publicación de su primera novela e iniciando el borrador de su siguiente proyecto literario.
La puedes encontrar en:
Substack: @lisiglesias_
Cristina Jurado Marcos
FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA
Cristina Jurado Marcos es una escritora y editora española de fantasía, ciencia ficción y terror, ganadora de ocho premios Ignotus. Ha escrito cuatro novelas y numerosos relatos cortos, y editado varias antologías, además de artículos y entrevistas en la revista SuperSonic, que dirigió durante siete años.
Jane Appleton
COPY AND PROOF EDITOR
Jane Appleton has spent most of her life as a Maths teacher (41 years in schools and 2 years, since retirement, tutoring) 33 years in the same school has meant that she has had the joy of seeing many hundreds of pupils grow from children to young adults and then, as many keep in touch, how their futures go.
She enjoys reading and has always had a good eye for spotting errors – so likes proofreading articles, magazines and books.
She lives in England, in sunny Surrey
Ellen Merryweather
PODCAST EDITOR
Ellie Merryweather is a writer and podcaster from Bournemouth, but after eight years in Madrid she considers herself a full Madrileña adoptada. With a BA in English Literature and Classical Studies from the University of Reading, she’s passionate about stories that echo through time. Her career in digital marketing keeps her busy as she works on what she hopes will be her first published novel, as well as a handful of short stories. In her spare time she produces and hosts The Madrid Review podcast where she chats with guests about literature, culture, and the thriving arts scene in Madrid.