EDITOR
Mary Buchanan (she/her) is records specialist and former teacher from Mississippi. She holds an M.F.A from LSU. Her collection of stories and essays, Cerebral Weather, was published by Alien Buddha Press. Find her book reviews/author interviews/weird existentialism at herghosts.blog, and tolerate her at @marybsell
POETRY EDITOR
D.W. Baker (he/him) is a poet, editor, and critic from St. Petersburg, Florida. His poems appear in Identity Theory, ballast, The Institutionalized Review, Washington Square Review, and Sundog Lit, among others, while his book reviews appear in Variant Lit, Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, Paraselene, and more. He edited the 2024 collection GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body for The Circus Collective.
See more of his work at: www.dwbakerpoetry.com.
EDITORIAL INTERN
Gabriella Polin is a fiction writer based in Columbus, Ohio. She is currently finishing her undergraduate education in English and working on a collection of short fiction for her thesis. When she isn’t in class or frantically writing, you can find her taking aimless walks through the woods and trying to speak to the wildlife.
EDITORIAL INTERN
Lakshmi Mitra is a writer living in India. Her work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rising Phoenix Review, Protean, and in other places.
POETRY READER
Angela Heiser lives near Raleigh. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Poetry Lighthouse, The Red Mud Review and County Lines. Her poem “Cornhusker” was awarded the Poetry Genre Winner for the 2024-2025 issue of The Red Mud Review. She is an alum of Writers in Paradise and reads for Abode Press, Wildscape and Libre.
Follow her on Instagram: @angelacheiser
POETRY READER
Angel Rosen (she/her) is a queer poet living on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. She is the winner of the 2025 Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize. Angel’s work focuses on mental illness and survival—living with chronic suicidality and Borderline Personality Disorder. She can be found performing at open mics in the city, supporting drag, crafting, making lists, and telling people she loves them. She is passionate about destigmatizing mental illness, community, musicals, and good ice cream.
Find her work at www.angelrosen.com. Become her friend at @Axiopoeticus
POETRY READER
Jenny Chu is a Chinese-American poet from Dallas, Texas. The founder and co-editor in chief of Rosetta Lit (@rosettaliterary), her poetry has been nationally recognized by YoungArts and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. She tries to make the world a better place for some definition of better.
READER
Mathieu Parsy is a Canadian writer who grew up on the French Riviera. He now lives in Toronto and works in the travel industry. His writing has appeared in publications such as New World Writing Quarterly, Your Impossible Voice, Bending Genres, Does It Have Pockets, and Brilliant Flash Fiction.
Follow him on Instagram: @mathieu_parsy
READER
Chimezie Umeoka is a writer of Igbo origin from Nigeria. Having appeared in several journals and publications including Lolwe, Brittle Paper, Afrocritik, and The Kalahari Review. Chimezie has edited the first student journal in West Africa, The Muse Journal. A finalist for the ZODML Poetry Prize, the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, and A Public Space Writing Fellowship, he is an English and Literary Studies major at the University of Nigeria, and Custodian of The Writers’ Community, Nsukka. His poetry chapbook titled MOONCHILD, won the 2024 Pengician Chapbook Awards.
READER
Shikuku Kaburu is a writer, poet, actor, and teacher of English and Literature based in Kenya. His creative work explores memory, identity, and the intersections of language and lived experience. When not teaching or on stage, he writes poems and essays that trace the quiet rhythms of everyday life.
You can find him on LinkedIn as Shikuku Kaburu and X (@vsk_shikuku) and Instagram (@vsk_shikuku)
READER
Reed Holland (they/them) is a queer poet, medievalist, and former equestrian currently based in Texas. They hold a B.A. in Creative Writing, and after a brief break to pursue their M.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, they are returning to the creative world. Their previously published work can be found in Manastash.
Find them on Bluesky: throwrunes.bsky.social
READER
Ceilidh (kale) creates multimedia art and design work at the intersection of fantasy and technology, including music, writing, performance, HTML/CSS, and illustration. Their work has been exhibited and/or published various places, including the Electronic Literature Organization (un)linked 2024 Conference. Aside from the arts, Ceilidh likes sweet star fruit, indie pop, dragons, and has maintained a “piano hobby” for over fifteen years. Find them online: suitcasedragon.com
READER
Oscar Fitzgerald (he/him) is a nonfiction writer who publishes articles on mental health, aromantic and asexual experiences, and queer representation in television and film. He has an MA in English with a Creative Writing concentration. His work has been published in Femmage Zine.