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.
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.
Bélen Pérez Diaz
ART EDITOR
Queridos subscriptores, soy Belén, natural de Madrid, amante del buen comer, del buen beber, de la música, del cine, del arte en general. De todo lo que provoque buenas vibraciones, de todo lo que te transporte a lugares fantásticos, recorriendo, a través de imágenes, música, olores y sabores el pasado, el presente y te haga sentir con fuerza que el futuro "lo molará todo".
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.
Grace Caplan
PODCAST FOUNDER & EDITOR
Hi! I'm Grace Caplan, a university student from the United States studying English literature. I am excited to head the production of the Madrid Review Podcast. I hope to bring the stories of artists to life and provide a platform where we learn from each other and share our creativity, inspiration, and wisdom. socials: instagram @grace_caplan_
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
Samantha Grant
MOVIE & SCRIPTS EDITOR
Born and raised on Ernst Lubitsch, Tony Scott and Nora Ephron, Samantha realized early that the greatness in a movie starts with the script.
The force will only be with you because of George Lucas.
Julia Roberts is only a girl in front of a boy because of Richard Curtis, after all - and if James Cameron had made that bloody bit of wood just a little bit longer, Jack will still be alive with Rose.
After having read, ananlysed and annotated hundreds of scripts in her life, Samantha still thinks Fight Club is the one she wished she'd written herself.