Team Libre

MARY Buchanan sellers

FOUNDER/EiC

Mary B. Sellers is a teacher and writer from Mississippi. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Serotonin, Bending Genres, Trampoline Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Hobart, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Tiny Molecules, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Razor, Psychopomp, among others.

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D.W. Baker

POETRY EDITOR

D.W. Baker is a poet and teacher from St. Petersburg, Florida. He edited the 2024 collection, GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body, containing poetry and nonfiction on the theme of bipolar disorder, available from The Circus Collective. His work appears in Identity Theory, Corporeal Lit, The Ekphrastic Review, The Institutionalized Review, Voidspace Zine, and Cutbow Quarterly, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net.

See more at www.dwbakerpoetry.com

Sam Bellamy

READER

Based in Suffolk, England, Sam Bellamy is the creator of Green Ink Poetry, and is often found in the woods. He has a deep love for old trees and quiet places where modernity can be escaped, as well as searching for sea glass and hag stones on the beach.

Leigh doughty

READER

Leigh Doughty is a writer and a language tutor currently based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His previously published work can be found in the VNexpress, Arteidolia, Meridian, and the Nuthatch.

Amy Parker

READER

Amy Suzanne Parker is a writer and instructor living in Gainesville, Florida. Her work has appeared in Juked, DIAGRAM, Flash Fiction Magazine, Oregon East, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is working on a memoir-in-essays about growing up and living in Florida with depression and anxiety. Originally from the Tampa Bay Area, she loves a good storm.

Catalina Barceló

READER

Catalina Barceló is a Colombian writer currently based in the UK. She holds a BA in Communication and Journalism, and recently finished her MA in Publishing at City, University of London. She spends her days surrounded by books while creating new ways for her characters to enjoy the rollercoaster that is life. In her spare time she enjoys watching movies and strolling around the park daydreaming with her headphones on.

Ellen Acconcia

READER

Ellen Acconcia is a former marketing and communications professional, originally from New York City, currently living coastal North Carolina. Mostly recently, she oversaw audience growth and engagement and content management for a nonprofit digital newsroom based in North Carolina. She has served as a marketing director, publicist, and communications expert in industries as varied as book publishing, the performing arts, corporate development and professional association management. She is an experienced writer, content wrangler, publications production manager and creative director who enjoys breathing life into a vision through the written word. She writes about many topics including mental illness, parenting an adult child with mental illness, memory, and grief. Her work has appeared in The Sunlight Press, Business Insider and 5 Minute Lit, among others.

Stephanie Marrie

READER

I'm an experienced editor passionate about evaluating and fine-tuning stories that reflect the richness of today's world. I aim to help storytellers explore the full range of their experiences through meticulous developmental, copy, and line editing. Over my six-year editorial career, I've familiarized myself with all aspects of the editorial and the book production process. I have been fortunate enough to work with both fiction and nonfiction titles at various publishers.

Chelsea Allen

READER

Chelsea Allen is a writer from India. Her fiction has appeared in The Citron Review, Furious Fiction, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among other places. She owns too many seashells.

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angela Heiser

READER

Angela Heiser lives near Raleigh and spends her days herding children and dreaming of her next trip, be it to the Outer Banks or Scotland. She writes about exploring nature with her kids, contemporary motherhood, and familial estrangement. Her work appears in County Lines. She is an alum of Writers in Paradise and reads for Abode Press. Find her on Instagram @angelacheiser and Bluesky @angelaheiser.bsky.social

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Nora Katz

READER

Nora Katz is a public historian, writer, and theatre-maker based in Jackson, Mississippi. Nora earned a Master's degree in Public History and Cultural Heritage from Trinity College Dublin and has spent the past eight years as a historian of the American South. Her work has appeared in Hey Alma, Rooted magazine, and on Gravy, the Southern Foodways Alliance podcast. Nora is the co-author of the humor book Literary Starbucks and she publishes tabletop role-playing games at orchardhouse.itch.io.

Learn more at www.norakatz.com.

Devon Webb

READER

Devon Webb (she/her) is an autistic writer & editor based in Aotearoa, with award-winning work published extensively in over a hundred publications worldwide. She is a three-time Slam champion & a founding member of The Circus (@circuslit), a literary collective prioritising disabled voices & radical inclusivity. She is currently working on a debut novel & full-length poetry collection & can be found on social media at @devonwebbnz.