Topaz Winters, founder & editor-in-chief
is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022) & Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024). Her work has been published by The American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, & Poets.org, profiled in Vogue, The Straits Times, & The Business Times, & performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre for Fiction, & the Singapore Writers Festival. She lives between New York & Singapore with a white dog named Hachii & a black cat named Volta.
Danie Shokoohi, managing editor
is a Boston-based writer and 2020 graduate of the UW-Madison MFA. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Puritan, Glass: a Journal of Poetry, The American Journal of Poetry, New Ohio Review, Lake Effect, The Mississippi Review, The Cincinnati Review, and others. She is a devoted listener of pod-dramas, an avid tarot reader, and the queen of making too many playlists.
Lee Anderson, managing editor
is a trans writer with an MFA from Northern Arizona University. Their Pushcart- and Best of the Net-nominated work can be found in Brevity, Salt Hill Journal, Gertrude, The Rumpus, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. They love fancy coffees, thinking about mountains, and living in Chicago with their partner and a cat named Pretzel.
Courtney Felle, press editor
is an MA/PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy and Disability Studies. They are interested in narratives of (un)diagnosis, craftivism via DisCrochet, large mugs of tea, ultra-specific Spotify playlists, and terrible reality TV. You can find their writing in SICK Magazine, Monstering Magazine, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, among other publications.
Amanda Hawkins, journal editor
has a book of poetry, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, forthcoming from Wandering Aengus Press in January 2025. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Honey Literary, Massachusetts Review, The Orison Anthology, Orion, The Rumpus, The Southampton Review, Terrain, Tin House, Tin House Online, and Image, among others. Hawkins holds an MFA in creative writing from UC Davis and MA in theological studies from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. They are a Tin House, Key West, and Bread Loaf Scholar, have won fellowships from Writing by Writers, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and have taught literature, writing, and poetry at university and community levels. They live in Northern California and are at work on their PhD in English.
Kate Wilson-Burnett, interview correspondent
has been published by Pressure Gauge Press and Parentheses Journal, among others. Their chapbook Dance Party Dirge was published by Ghost City Press in August of 2020. Three of their poems were selected for the Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize. They are an active member of their community and works with the Sex Work Outreach project in Salt Lake City. Kate is a graduate of Westminster College with a BA in English Literature with minors in Sociology and Gender Studies. They enjoy long naps, longer baths, and keeping Excel spreadsheets.