SHANNAN MANN

Founding Editor

Shannan’s recent work appears in Best New Poets (2024). She has been awarded or placed for the Palette Love & Eros Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize, Foster Poetry Prize, among others. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Missouri Review, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere. She is the Poet Laureate’s pick for Exile. Her essays appear in Tolka Journal and Going Down Swinging; they have been awarded the Alta Lind Cook Prize and the Irene Adler Essay Prize. She also translates Sanskrit poetry.

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KARAN KAPOOR

Editor-in-Chief

Karan’s recent work appears in Best New Poets (2024). A finalist for the Felix Pollak Prize & Charles B. Wheeler Prize book prizes and Diode, Tusculum Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems have appeared in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of hope, and translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They’re currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.

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JUSTINE PAYTON

Managing Editor

Justine is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington where she is a recipient of the Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship and the Bernice Kert Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Isele Magazine, The Masters Review, The Keeping Room, and others. She is currently an editor for Ecotone Magazine, an editorial intern with Tin House, and a guest editor for The Masters Review and CRAFT. An avid hiker and ecofeminist, Justine has traveled and worked across four continents.

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SVETLANA LITVINCHUK

Associate Editor

Svetlana is a poet and permaculture farmer who graduated from University of New Mexico. She is the author of a debut poetry chapbook, Only a Season (Bottlecap Features, 2024) and a forthcoming full-length poetry collection (spring 2026). Her work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Her poetry appears in swamp pink, About Place, Flyway, ANMLY, Apple Valley Review, Sky Island Journal, Arkana, Plant-Human Quarterly and elsewhere. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she now tends her garden in Missouri.

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ANDREEA CEPLINSCHI

Assistant Editor

Andreea is a Romanian immigrant writer, photographer, graphic designer, waitress, and kitchen witch living and working at the tip of Cape Cod. Her writing includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, published and forthcoming in Solstice Literary Magazine, 86logic, One Art, Wild Roof Journal, The Quarter(ly), The Keeping Room, and elsewhere. As a member of the literary community at large, she strives to de-capitalize her artistic existence by nurturing safe spaces for artistic expression and sharing editorial resources outside the academic world.