Editor-in-Chief
Robin Cedar (she/they) is a writer living in Oregon, where she spends most of her time drinking tea and thinking about whales. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has appeared in journals such as Spry, Blue Mesa Review, Pacifica Literary Review, and Moon City Review, among others. She received her MFA in poetry from Oregon State University and served as poetry editor and social media manager to its lit mag, 45th Parallel.
Prose Readers
Odette Le Bray writes fiction and non-fiction with an eye on society and the social. She is proud to tell people that she reads for magazines including Random Sample Review and the Forge, and was a founding editor of the publication Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine. She is an alumni of the Faber Academy. Odette has worked in PR, hospitality, academia, and patient safety. She’s lived in England, California, and Spain, wearing her different lives like jackets. Writing fiction has been her only constant.
Johann Long (he/him) is an avid lover of the long eighteenth century with a passion for fashion history. When not reading or researching, he enjoys crocheting and learning other fiber arts.
Poetry Readers
Mea Andrews is a writer from Georgia, who currently resides in Shenzhen. She has her MFA from Lindenwood University and is still trying to learn how to make writing profitable. You can find her in Gordon Square Review, Gutter, Oyster River, Potomac Review, and others. She has two chapbooks and poetry collections available for publication, should anyone be interested.
Rita Feinstein is the author of the young adult novel-in-verse Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension (Page Street, 2024) and the poetry collections Life on Dodge and Everything is Real (Brain Mill Press). Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Salamander, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among other publications, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. She received her MFA in Poetry from Oregon State University, and now lives in Washington, DC, where she teaches creative writing to kids and teens.
Shirin Mohamadzadeh has found a native home in a foreign language. She languages, as a profession and a pastime. Currently, she teaches English language arts and academic writing in Canada. Her poetry can be found in North Dakota Quarterly, but she promises her Persian poems are much better. Find her on IG @shirinmzadeh. She’ll appreciate it.
Founding Editors
Karie Fugett lives and writes off-grid in Oregon. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Oregon State University and has been editing for over five years. Her writing can be found in, The Rumpus, HuffPost, Cosmonauts Avenue, ENTROPY, Medium, Manifest-Station and elsewhere. Her memoir Alive Day—about the Iraq war, the opioid crisis, and becoming a widow at the age of 24—is forthcoming. Find her on Twitter @KarieWrites.
Rachel McMullen has a diverse background in creative writing, literature, English education, editing, and library and archival science. She received her M.Ed. at the University of South Alabama in 2014 and has experience teaching all ages and levels in both formal and informal educational settings, domestically and abroad. In addition, she has served as the Chief Editorial Assistant for the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Human Organization, Assistant Editor for Negative Capability Press, and Poetry Editor for the Oracle Fine Arts Review. She recently earned an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi and works as a reference librarian at a public library just north of Chicago, Illinois where she lives with her beloved [domesticated] menagerie. Her work has been featured in Bellum, Eunoia Review, Angle Magazine, Deep South Magazine, Unbroken Journal, and elsewhere.
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