About

Hannah Grieco (EIC, Prose Editor) is a writer, editor, and teacher in Washington, DC. Her work appears in a wide variety of publications, including The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, and more. She is an assistant book editor at Alan Squire Publishing, as well as an editor at Pidgeonholes, JMWW, and Porcupine Literary. Find her at www.hgrieco.com and on Twitter @writesloud.

Saida Agostini (Contributing Editor) is a queer Afro-Guyanese poet whose work explores how Black folks harness mythology to enter the fantastic. Her work is featured in Plume, Hobart Pulp, Barrelhouse, Auburn Avenue, amongst others. Saida’s work can be found in several anthologies, including Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Sexuality and Joy, The Future of Black, and Plume Poetry 9. She is  the author of STUNT (Neon Hemlock, October 2020), a chapbook reimagining the life of Nellie Jackson, a Black madam and FBI spy from Natchez Mississippi. Her first full length collection released by Alan Squire Publishing (March 2022), let the dead in, was a finalist for the 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize and the Center for African American Arts & Poetics Poetry Prize. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, and member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, Saida is a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and Best of the Net Finalist. Her work has received support from the Ruby Artist Grants, and the Blue Mountain Center, amongst others. She lives online at www.saidaagostini.com

Ashley Espinoza (assistant prose editor) is a writer living in rural Colorado. Her work has appeared in Insider, Assay, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, River Teeth’s blog, Forge Literary Magazine, Bending Genres, and Janus Literary. She is a nonfiction editor at The Good Life Review. She can be found at www.ashleyespinoza.com and @ashley1espinoza on Twitter.

Sass Brown (Poetry Editor) is the author of USA-1000, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. She received her MFA from Indiana University, where she was the Ruth Lilly Fellow in Poetry, and attended the Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as a Poetry Scholar. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, composer Jamie Kowalski.

Elizabeth Hazen (Contributing Editor) is a poet and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, EPOCH, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and other journals. She has published two collections of poetry with Alan Squire Publishing, Chaos Theories (2016) and Girls Like Us (2020). She lives in Baltimore with her family.

Naz Knudsen (assistant prose editor) is an Iranian-American writer and filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Writing and an MA in Media Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Pidgeonholes, Ruminate, (mac)ro(mic), and Lost Balloon. She lives and teaches in North Carolina. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @nazbk.

Teri Ellen Cross Davis (Contributing Editor) is the author of a more perfect Union, awarded the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and Haint, awarded the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in print, online, in journals and anthologies including Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, PANK, Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review. She’s the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Curator and Poetry Programs manager for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. Follow her on Twitter at @cross_davis, Instagram at  @haint_poet, and online at www.poetsandparents.com.

Shirley Chan (assistant prose editor) is writing a memoir and teaching herself different essay forms. She is an alum of Tin House and Writing by Writers Tomales Bay, the recipient of a Rooted & Written fellowship, and a member of the Bereket Writing Community. Her work has been published in Longleaf Review, Paranoid Tree, HAD, (mac)ro(mic), UX Collective, and NYC Midnight. When the words part of her brain needs a break, Shirley embroiders. Learn more at irleywrites.com and hang out on socials @irleywrites.

Shira Segal (first reader) grew up between England and Israel. In one, she learnt the wonders of Shakespeare and literature, and in the other, she got (many) tattoos. Shira loves to write, edit, do cat stuff, perform, hide in the shadows, watch way too many horror movies, and then complain that she has multiple stalkers who can enter her dreams. She’s lovingly involved in the LGBTQIA+ community and used to be a psychologist. She has been a writer and editor for two decades, has written a fantasy novel, lived in multiple countries and considers NY her chosen home. Following this bio, she will continue referring to herself in third person, as it makes her feel important.