
SARAH CLARK | EIC, Poetry Editor | They/Them/Theirs
Sarah Clark is a mad crip genderfuck two-spirit enrolled Nanticoke editor, writer, and cultural consultant. They are Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor at ANMLY, EIC of beestung, EIC at ALOCASIA: a queer plant-based magazine, co-editor of the Bettering American Poetry series, and a member of the Board of Directors at Sundress Publications. They have edited feature folios for publications, including GLITTERBRAIN and Indigenous & Decolonial Futures & Futurisms at ANMLY, as well as folios on Sound Art, “Desire & Interaction,” and a collection of global indigenous art and literature, First Peoples, Plural at Drunken Boat. At Apogee Journal, they were co-editor of #NoDAPL #Still Here and their series WE OUTLAST EMPIRE and Place[meant]. Sarah is a former Executive Board member at VIDA and former Editor-in-Chief of VIDA Review, where they curated a series of essays by writers outside of the binary, Body of a Poem and the interview series, Voices of Bettering American Poetry, and a former reader at The Atlas Review. Sarah freelances, and has worked with a number of literary and arts publications and organizations, including the Best of the Net anthology, contemptorary, #PoetsResist at Glass Poetry, Apogee Journal, Blackbird, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. In their spare time, Sarah has strong opinions and is very queer. They cannot pass a Turing test. @petitobjetb.

JIE VENUS COHEN | Folio Co-Editor | They/Them/Theirs
Jie V. Cohen is a mixed, intersex writer and author of poetry chapbook Venus Limbs (’25, Thirty West Publishing). They are a 2026 Tin House/MWC Scholar, a 2025 Lambda Literary fellow, and have received fellowships from Kenyon Review, Anaphora Arts, Mount Holyoke College, and others. They were shortlisted for the 2026 Disquiet Prize. Their work has been recognized in The Tulane Review, DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, Singapore Unbound, poets.org, and others. Their poem “The Future” received a Best of the Net award in 2023. They are the first place winner of the 2024 Singapore Poetry Prize and second place winner of the 2025 Singapore Poetry Prize. They have been nominated for Best New Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and others. They read poetry for Electric Literature and are a folio co-editor at ANMLY. jievenuscohen.com.

SHON MAPP | Folio Co-Editor | She/Her/Hers
Shon Mapp is a Bajan writer whose pieces explore lesbian intimacy, kinship, and immigrant identities. She has words published in several indie literary magazines including Stanchion, HAD, Neologism, Fourteen Poems, and has held various editorial staff roles. Shon works as a freelance technical writer within the manufacturing and facilities management industries. Connect with her on Bluesky and Twitter: @ShonMapp or view her website: www.shonmapp.com.

K ANGEL | Translation Co-Editor | They/Them/Theirs
K Angel is a genderqueer writer and artist from the American Midwest. Their work on intimacy, problematic mythologies, yearning, and metamorphosis interruptus has found homes in manywor(l)ds, Tin House Flash Fridays, at HearSay Audio Arts Festival, and elsewhere. An alum of the Abode Press Summer Retreat, they are the author of Another double text (kith books, 2026) and founding editor of None Too Soon, an ephemeral press designed on neurodivergent rituals for urgency, necessity, and doing hard things together. They also serve as a proud trustee for Marlborough Productions / Queer Heritage South. @someimpropernoun

NOUR KAMEL | Translation Co-Editor | She/They
Nour Kamel is a writer, editor, and baker from Egypt working through the poetics of food, family, community, oppression, language, queerness & gender. They believe in a free Palestine. Their chapbook Noon is part of the New-Generation African Poets series and their writing can be found in ANMLY, World Literature Today, Sinister Wisdom, The Shade Journal, and Mizna among others. They organize experimental collaborations, writing & research with Kusbarra Collective.

paparouna | Translation Co-Editor | They/She/το/η)
paparouna is a storyweaver, translator, educator, and queer transfeminist crip who daydreams about life as a marine mammal. They hold an MFA in translation and fiction from Antioch University Los Angeles, and they are a graduate of the 2018 Princeton Hellenic Translation Workshop, the 2025 Bread Loaf Translators Conference, and the 2025 British Center for Literary Translation Summer School. They have been published in Progenitor, Asymptote, Exchanges, New Poetry in Translation (now World Poetry Review), Denver Quarterly, TIMBER, The Thought Erotic, Lunch Ticket, World Literature Today, and the Greek anthology Κουίρ 2024 [Queer 2024]. Visit their website at paparouna.art.

KASUN PATHIRAGE | Translation Co-Editor | He/Him/His
Kasun Pathirage is a writer and a translator from Sri Lanka. His work has appeared in Granta, The Ex-Puritan, ANMLY, Tahoma Literary Review and elsewhere. Life on Three Wheels, his co-translation, was a finalist for the Poetry in Translation Prize by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo. Kasun is currently working on his first book, a collection of Lovecraftian horror stories with a Sri Lankan twist.

PARISA KARAMI | Graphic Narratives Editor | She/Her/Hers
Parisa Karami is an artist living in the Hudson Valley with her family. Recent works can be seen on media outlets such as Mc Sweeney’s, Shenandoah, Cartoonists For Palestine, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, Mutha Magazine, The Florida Review, Rhino Poetry, The New Orleans Review, The Belladonna and elsewhere. Her first book Shadows of the San Joaquin was published by Northwest Review Books in June 2024. For more information you can visit parisakaramipaintings.com

JESS SILFA | Flash & Micros Editor | They/Them/Theirs
Jess Silfa is a writer and poet from the South Bronx. They have a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Vanderbilt University. They are currently a Yates Fellow in the Ph.D. program in English (Creative Writing) at the University of Cincinnati and are President of the Disabled and D/deaf Writers Caucus. Their work has been published in beestung, Transition Magazine, and other places.

KATHRYN HENION | Fiction Co-Editor | She/Her/Hers
Kathryn Henion earned a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, where she was editor of the biannual literary magazine Harpur Palate. Her fiction has appeared in over twenty-five journals and was a finalist in recent contests by Fish Publishing, Scribes Valley Publishing, Beloit Fiction Journal and Sequestrum. Currently she lives and writes in Ithaca, New York, where she was artistic director of the Spring Writes Literary Festival, serves on the boards of the Community Arts Partnership and Story House Ithaca, and by day is a communications coordinator for Cornell University’s College of Engineering. kathrynhenion.com

jonah wu | Fiction Co-Editor | He/They
jonah wu is a NYC-based fiction writer and essayist whose work is featured in Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color, as well as journals like Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Seventh Wave, smoke and mold, and Longleaf Review. They are a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a winner of Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of 2022. He urges readers to act regularly and stridently for Palestinian, Sudanese, and Congolese liberation, as well as the liberation of all oppressed people across the world. In cyberspace, he is @rabblerouses.

ADDIE TSAI | Features & Reviews Co-Editor & Fiction Editor-at-Large | Any/All
Addie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin (2019), included in American Library Association’s Rainbow List in 2021, Unwieldy Creatures (2022), a Shirley Jackson finalist for Best Novel, and Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture. She collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They are the founding editor in chief for just femme & dandy. Addie is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at William & Mary, where she is Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies. Her articles have been published in LO:TECH:POP:CULT: Screendance Remixed (2024), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy (2021), Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion (2021), and The International Journal of Screendance.

THAER HUSIEN | Features & Reviews Co-Editor & Nonfiction Co-Editor | He/Him/His
Thaer Husien is a Palestinian educator living as an unwelcome guest on First Peoples’ land. He helped found The Posterity Alliance, is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright scholar, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Writing can be found in Rusted Radishes, Black Warrior Review, ANMLY, Yellow Medicine Review, Litro Magazine, The Written Resistance, Montreal Serai, Sonora Review, Collateral, Emrys Journal, and Poetry Wales. His recently published novel, Beside the Sickle Moon, is a near-future tale based on Israel’s occupation of Palestine (Daraja Press, 2024).

MIZZY HUSSAIN | Nonfiction Co-Editor | She/Her/Hers
Lancastrian born and bred, Mizzy Hussain is currently a Scottish resident. She holds a BA in Public Administration from Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology, and an MSc in Creative Writing (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh, the latter taught by Scottish fiction writers/ poets Dilys Rose and Robert Alan Jamieson. In a past life, she also completed a module on memoir/ creative nonfiction at Birkbeck College, London, taught by renowned photographer/ artist Rosy Martin and the late writer/ dramatist Berta Freistadt. Since then, she has had work published both online and in print. She was once awarded ‘Poem of the Month’ by The Grauniad—no idea how that happened—and is now working on a few things while side-eyeing the calendar.

DINO de HAAS | Assistant Fiction Editor | They/Them/Theirs
Dino de Haas (they/them) is a queer artist based in the Netherlands who makes comics and games, or comics that are games. They also write poetry and short stories that are often comics or games, too, or might as well have been. In 2021, they earned a BA in Creative Writing from Artez University of Arts. They’re the author of the sci-fi comic View. You can find them on twitter @dinodehaas.

CARSON FAUST | Fiction Reader | He/Him/Esenv’
Carson Faust is two-spirit and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. He is the recipient of artist fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Camargo Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. His fiction has appeared here in ANMLY and has been anthologized in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage, 2023). His debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here, is forthcoming from Viking (US) and Titan (UK) in October 2025.

ESMÉ KAPLAN-KINSEY | Fiction Reader | They/Them/Their
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a California transplant living in Munich, Germany, where they are a Visiting Scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. A 2026 Anthony Veasna So Scholar through the Adroit Journal and a Monarch Queer Literary Award winner, their work appears in publications such as Split Lip, SmokeLong Quarterly, and the Cincinnati Review. Their writing explores human-nature relation and deconstructs binaries casting humankind in opposition to the natural world. They can be found on Instagram/X/Bluesky @esmepromise.

PIA KOH | Fiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Pia Koh is a writer and editor from New York. She’s currently studying for an MA in English Philology at Freie Universität in Berlin; previously, she studied English Literature at Columbia University. She’s interested in stories that, regardless of plot, elevate language to a universal place. When she’s not writing experimental novels, she works as an essay coach for high school students.

TALIA NICHOLS | Fiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Talia Nichols is a writer and editor from Georgia. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing and is pursuing a Master’s in Writing at Lindenwood University. She published a short story titled “Dying to Meet You” in Diamond Gazette. She enjoys playing video games, watching early 2000s cartoons, and anime.

ALEXIS ONG | Fiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Alexis is a freelance journalist based in Singapore, covering games, interactive art, science fiction, and weird tech; she was a contributing writer for the third season of experimental murder mystery game Neurocracy. In past lives she’s been a music journalist, a West Hollywood gym owner, and a professional TV watcher (among other things). She has an MFA in Writing and did not enjoy it.

SHUCHI AGRAWAL | Fiction & Nonfiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Shuchi Agrawal (she/her) is an Indian writer and literary translator whose debut poetry collection is under contract with Querencia Press. Currently, she is studying at the University of Cambridge where she is writing an urban fantasy novel using Celtic mythology. As Daisy Rockwell’s ALTA mentee, she has also been translating Bihari novels and short stories from Hindi into English. Her work has been shortlisted and/or awarded a few prizes, and has appeared in mercury firs, The Polis Project, the Cult Collective, and others.

SLOANE CUTFLOWER ALLEN | Nonfiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Sloane Cutflower Allen is a trans Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and editor living in Chicago. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Duress Press, and her work has appeared in Carmen et Error, Angel Rust, Otoliths,and elsewhere. Find her work on Instagram and at duresspress.org.

FRED BANKS | Nonfiction Reader | He/Him/His
Fred is a writer, house husband, and dog dad. When not managing treat distribution and meeting tummy scratch quotas, he enjoys playing video games, reading, and furthering the Trans Agenda. All of his writing is compiled on fredbanks.com.

JOEFEL BOLO | Nonfiction Reader & Instagram / Threads Social Media Manager | They/Them/Theirs
Joefel Bolo is a queer writer from the Philippines. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Harvard Advocate, beestung, DIALOGIST, Ouch! Collective, and Stanford’s Mantis, among others.

RIDWAN FASASI | Nonfiction Reader | He/Him/His
Ridwan Fasasi, SWAN I, is the winner of the 2024 Labari Prize for Poetry. He is a Nigerian poet of Yoruba Descent. A Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net Nominee whose works have appeared on ANMLY, Chestnut Review, Frontier Poetry, Euonia Review, Akpata, Lucent Dreaming, Strange Horizon, Hindsight Creative, among others. His works have also been shortlisted for the SprinNg Annual Poetry Contest, Splendor of Dawn Poetry Contest, Luck Jefferson Poetry Contest, Gbemisola Adeoti Poetry Prize, and SOBAF Poetry Slam, and also longlisted for the 2024 Akachi Prize for Literature. Find him on twitter (sorry X) @Ibn_Yushau44.

AMAX JIMMY | Nonfiction Reader | He/Him/His
Amax Jimmy holds a B.A. in English and Literary Studies from Niger Delta University and has worked as a poetry reader with West Trade Review Literary Magazine in North Carolina, USA. He currently reads CNF at Akpata Magazine, affiliated with the University of Benin, Nigeria, and poetry at Fahmidan Journal, London, UK. He also serves as Communications Specialist at the STEMHub Foundation, Ontario, Canada. Jimmy is passionate about making a difference and uses his free time for reading, writing, volunteering, and especially listening to his intuition in deep silence. He posts @AmaxKuroJimmy on Facebook, Instagram, and X.

CELIA LAN | Nonfiction Reader | They/She
Celia Lan is a bilingual writer whose work centers on memory, pain, diaspora and queerness in pursuit of a reconfiguration of identity through hybrid life writing. Born in China, they dwell in the constricted crevice of in-betweenness and adore change, illusion, and vagrancy. When they are not writing, you may find their mind still wandering. They are a prospective PhD student in English and Creative Writing at Murdoch University.

HALEY TRUSS | Nonfiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
Haley Truss is a writer and cultural critic focused on the intersections of storytelling, memory, and media. Her work explores psychological and philosophical themes in contemporary culture, with a particular interest in carving out spaces at the crossroads of journalism, archiving, and oral history. She is currently working on a summer-long project diving deep into contemporary film analysis.

SHRANUP TANDUKAR | Nonfiction & Poetry Reader | He/Him/His
Shranup Tandukar is a poet, writer, and researcher based in Lalitpur, Nepal. His works have appeared in the Salamander magazine, Lucky Jefferson, Riverstone Literary Journal and ASAP Art among others. Currently, he’s working on his first poetry manuscript.

leena aboutaleb | Nonfiction & Poetry Reader | She/Her/Hers
leena aboutaleb is an Egyptian and Palestinian writer who asks you to commit to the Palestinian liberation struggle. She is the author of THALASSA (Game Over Books, 2026). Her pamphlet, Expeditions of Projection, was released in 2023 (VIBE). Her film, Oracle, co-produced with Youssef ElNa, has debuted in Venice, 2025.

noam keim | Nonfiction Reader | They/Them/Their
noam keim is a trauma worker, medicine maker, and flâneur freak currently based on stolen Lenni-Lenape land known as Philadelphia. noam was born a settler of Occupied Palestine in an Arab Jewish family hailing from Morocco, before moving to France as a young child. They are a Lambda Literary ’22 Fellow, an RWW ’23 Fellow, a Tin House ’23 Fellow, and a Periplus ’23 Fellow, mentored by Grace Talusan. Their debut essay collection The Land is Holy won the 2022 Megaphone Prize judged by Hanif Abdurraqib, and is expected to be published by Radix Media in 2024. Connect on IG thelandisholy or thelandisholy.com.

CHRISTIAN JIL BENITEZ | Translation Associate Editor | He/Him/His
Christian Jil R. Benitez is a queer Filipino poet, scholar, and translator. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Chulalongkorn University; and an AB-MA in Filipino Literature from Ateneo de Manila University, where he currently teaches. christianbenitez.carrd.co

TIFFANY HYUNKYUNG CHANG | Translation Reader | She/Her/Hers
Tiffany Hyunkyung Chang (she/her) is a temporary Midwesterner, forever Angeleno, and Korean American writer/translator. Tiffany received her BA in Comparative Literature (specializing in Asian and Classical Studies) from Dartmouth College. After graduation, she moved to Seoul for language training on a James B. Reynolds Fellowship before starting her current job in healthcare IT. She is passionate about lesbian folk tales and bunnies. Her current project is a story about a fish and a frog, as told by a butterfly.

ILKE GUNAY | Translation Reader | She/Her/Hers
Ilke Gunay is a bilingual reader, writer and editor, currently studying English and Journalism at the University of Minnesota. She’s interested in stories that disrupt traditional boundaries of language and fiction. When she’s not in class or consulting student writers, she enjoys doing movie marathons and reading weird books.

SONIA BEAUCHAMP | Assistant Poetry Editor | She/Her/Hers
Sonia Beauchamp is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant. She is a healing artist, teaching assistant, and mother of two. Her writing examines multiracial, feminist, queer identity and appears in Hawai‘i Pacific Review, Wussy Mag, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. You can find her surrounded by feral chickens on the North Shore of O‘ahu and at soniakb.com.

JAMES O’LEARY | Assistant Poetry Editor | They/Them/Theirs
James O’Leary is a writer and educator from Arizona. Their work has been nominated for the Best New Poets, Best of the Net, & Pushcart Prize anthologies, & has appeared in such journals as Booth, Foglifter, The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, & more. James holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, is a graduate of the Tin House Summer Workshop, & serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for ANMLY. For a time, James tried the name Willow James Claire.

ALLISON THUNG | Assistant Poetry Editor | She/Her/Hers
Allison Thung is a Singaporean poet. She is the author of Reacquaint (kith books, 2024) and Molar (kith books, 2024). Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Sixth Finch, Cease, Cows, and elsewhere, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. Find her on Instagram and Bluesky @poetrybyallison, or at allisonthung.com.

GRAY AGPALO | Poetry Reader | They/Them/Theirs
Gray Agpalo is a writer, Communications Editor of Apogee Journal, and member of Sick in Quarters. grayagp.com

BRITTNI BRASWELL | Poetry Reader | She/Her/Hers
Brittni is a poet living in Austin, TX. Her work has been recognized by the Glascock Poetry Prize, the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize for Innovative Writing, and the Naropa SWP Zora Neale Hurston Award. Currently pursuing an MFA at the Michener Center for Writers, she is interested in poetry that seeks to challenge, investigate, and estrange.

AYLLI CORTEZ | Poetry Reader | He/Him/His
Aylli Cortez is a trans Filipino writer and poet based in Metro Manila. He graduated with a major in creative writing and a minor in theater from Ateneo de Manila University, where he received a DALISAYAN Award in the Arts for Poetry in 2024. His debut chapbook Unabandon was a winner of the Gacha Press Chapbook Contest, and was published in 2026. His poems have appeared in en*gendered lit, Bullshit Lit, HAD, like a field, and manywor(l)ds, among others. When he isn’t reading or being a recluse at the gym, he works as a copywriter for Vogue Philippines. Find him on Instagram @1159cowboy.

TRIPP J CROUSE | Poetry Reader | They/Them/Theirs
tripp j crouse (Two-Spirit Ojibwe) is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. tripp serves as a poetry reader for ANMLY, Kitchen Table Quarterly and Blood Tree Literature, and is pursuing their MFA in poetry at Alaska Pacific University. they have poetry published or forthcoming in Yellow Medicine Review, Genre Punk, Ink & Ivy, (in parentheses), and elsewhere. their poetry chapbook, For Every Dead Buffalo (2024) is available from Bottlecap Press.

I ECHO | Poetry Reader | He/Him/His
I Echo (b. Chris Baah) is a Ghanaian-Nigerian writer. He is the Founding Curator of NENTA Literary Journal, where he also serves as a Poetry Curator. He has work in Stone Circle Review, Ußwali, & elsewhere. He is also studying for an MFA at George Mason University.

sara h. hammami | Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Reader | She/Her/Hers
sara h. hammami (she/her) is a librarian, book artist & poet fragmented between language(s) & is always thinking & dreaming of life underwater. she has poems living with DEAR Poetry Journal, Grist, & ANMLY . currently, she is curious about the translational quality of city/borders, alternative time-keeping, & the translucent qualities of the red sea.

EROS LIVIERATOS | Poetry Reader | He/They
Eros Livieratos is a Greek-Belizean writer & artist whose work focuses on the intersection of identity, aesthetics, and capital in the Anthropocene. Eros has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, photography, and film score work. They can usually be found making harsh noise & screaming in your local basement under the moniker, EROSLOVESYOU.

ASHISH KUMAR SINGH | Poetry Reader | He/Him/His
Ashish Kumar Singh is a queer poet from India with a Master’s degree in English Literature. Previously, his works have appeared. or are forthcoming in, Chestnut Review, 14poems, Bombay Literary Review, Mason Jar Press, Banshee, Tab Journal, and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor at Indigo Literary Review and has recently joined the editorial team at Visual Verse. You can find him on Twitter @Ashish_stJude and Instagram @ashish_the_reader.

T. BISHOP NAVARRO | Poetry & Fiction Reader | They/She/He
T. Bishop Navarro is a trans/non-binary poet, fiction writer, and aspiring two-out, two-strike, walk-off home run. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Communication, both from the University of South Florida.

G.H. PLAAG | Poetry Reader | She/Her/Hers
G.H. Plaag is a poet, a novelist, and an historian’s daughter who split her childhood between the woods and the state archives. She received her MFA from Hollins University, where she also taught, is an alumnus of Sundress Academy for the Arts, and has published work with Boulevard, Redivider, Tahoma Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, and Poets.org, among others. Currently, she resides in New Orleans, where she is developing a novel in conversation with various structures of power along the Gulf Coast.

JACQUI ZENG | Poetry Reader | She/They
Jacqui Zeng is a poet from the greater Chicago area. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, HAD, Moist, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Jacqui is currently an adjunct instructor of English at City Colleges of Chicago.

ZEBULON WIMSATT | Folio Editor Emeritus | They/Them/Theirs
Zebulon Wimsatt lives in Rhode Island. They study and work in public library systems; previously, they studied digital language arts at Brown University. Their poems about and illustrations of hourses have been published in the online journal E•ratio, and in the print journals Pallor Pink and Transversals.

ALYSSANDRA TOBIN | DIS/CONNECT Column Co-Editor | She/They
Alyssandra Tobin (she/they) was grown on Boston’s North Shore. She is the author of the chapbook, Put Eyes on Me Not Like a Curse, published by Quarterly West in 2022. Her poems and essays appear in Poetry Northwest, Gigantic Sequins, Grist, Puerto del Sol, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in English at Oklahoma State University.

RAYE HENDRIX | DIS/CONNECT Column Co-Editor | She/They
Raye Hendrix is a writer and photographer from Alabama. Raye is the author of the poetry chapbooks Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press) and Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press). She is the winner of the 2019 Keene Prize for Literature and Southern Indiana Review’s 2018 Patricia Aakhus Award. Their work has been or will soon be featured in Poetry Daily, American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, Poet Lore, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Raye is the Poetry Editor of Press Pause Press and a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon working in English and Disability Studies. You can find Raye on social media or at rayehendrix.com.

jojo LAZAR | Poetic Conversations Column Editor | She/Her/Hers
jojo Lazar is a Massachusetts-based artist-writer and “Art Enabler” interested in sharing creative writing resources with all ages and communities. She holds a BA from Brandeis University, an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Lesley University, and teaches writing, zine-making/collage, and ukulele around Greater Boston and online. She is a contributor of book reviews to The Somerville Times, and has been a visiting lecturer at Endicott College and Lesley University. She presented at the MassPoetry Festival (2013) on poetry and performance art, and contributed the cover painting and poetry to ‘Faggot Dinosaur;’ a celebratory collection edited by Ali Liebegott that was given a National Queer Arts Festival (2012) award. She has published collage poetry in Angelical Ravings, Zen Monster, For Sale, as well as poetry in Broad Magazine, Connotation Press, Delirious Hem, A Bad Penny Review, Internet Friends (zine), as well as her own zines (‘Niblet’) since 2005, and others. She was also the first “blogterview” writer and social media person for VIDA (2010-2011). She performs in bands: Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys (since 2008) and her own duo, Death And The Poetess. She is writing a very vaudevillian “party archivist femmoir.” @poetessS across social media – jojoLazar.com

E. ROWAN MENA | Editor & Executive Director, Anomalous Press | They/Them/Theirs
E. Rowan Mena is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. Their book Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015) won a 2016 Hoffer First Horizons Award. Their translation of the classic Argentine sci-fi graphic novel The Eternaut (Fantagraphics, 2015) won a 2016 Eisner Award. They holds an MFA in Poetry from Brown University, an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, and an M.Phil in Culture and Criticism from the University of Cambridge. They are a visiting lecturer in poetry and book arts at Brown University. Follow them on Instagram, Tumblr, or at acyborgkitty.com.

GENEVIEVE PFEIFFER | Assistant Director | They/Them/Theirs
Genevieve Pfeiffer is curating a folio on reproductive justice and its intersections (they urge you to submit). They are a writer and poet, and facilitate workshops with survivors of sexual assault and harassment. Their work is forthcoming or has been published in Erase the Patriarchy, Juked, So to Speak, Stone Canoe, and more. They oscillate between NYC and the mountains, and you can find them where there are trees. Genevieve blogs about outdoor wanderings and herbal birth control’s intersections with witches, colonization, and personal and bioregional health at: medium.com/@GenevieveJeanne.
