J.B. Stone – Founding Editor/Interim Visual Arts Editor
Jared Benjamin/J.B. Stone (he/they) is a Neurodivergent/Autistic multidisciplinary writer, teaching artist, and critic from Brooklyn, NY now residing in Buffalo. Their reviews, prose, and poetry have appeared in Rain Taxi, The Citron Review, Button Poetry, Blue Earth Review, McNeese Review, HAD, BULL, Atticus Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Talon Review, Peach Mag and elsewhere. You can find more of J.B.’s work at jb-stone.com. You can also find his tweets and still politically-motivated rants on X/Twitter @JB_StoneTruth & also shitposts/promos on IG @benjamin.jared
Asela Lee Kemper – Poetry Editor
Asela Lee Kemper is a poet and editor. She is a poetry editor at Variety Pack magazine and has previously worked with presses and magazines including Sampaguita Press, Marías At Sampaguitas, Timberline Review, and Copper Canyon Press. She also has published works in SOU Student Press, Flawless Mag: The Border Issue, Silk Club: QUIET, Reclamation Mag, and the anthology No Tender Fences. Asela uses her passion for creative writing to open conversations on diversity and identity in literature. She currently resides in Oregon, USA with her family. You can find Asela on Twitter @AselaLeeK and Instagram @thesakuraink
Maddie Petaway/Maddie P. – Poetry Reader
Madison (Maddie P.) Petaway is a performance poet born and raised in Houston, TX and the city’s former Youth Poet Laureate (2020). Some of her notable accomplishments include being a member of Meta-4-Houston for three years, having her piece “To Be a Black Girl” published in New York Times and then republished in McGraw Hill’s Digital Library Study Sync, and winning “Best Overall” and a $1,500 prize at Texas Revue for her spoken word. Madison now attends the University of Texas at Austin where she majors in Social Work. An advocate for mental health in black and brown communities, Madison hopes to become a school counselor in middle or high schools or work as part of suicide prevention teams in adolescent psychiatric hospitals. She wants people to know she hasn’t lost her writing spark as she currently is the founder and president of a newfound poetry club at her university “Diction Addiction” and hopes to publish multiple books regarding mental health in the nearby future.
Lauren Peter – Poetry Reader
Skyler Jaye Rutkowski – Non-Fiction Editor
Skyler Jaye Rutkowski is a writer originally from Buffalo, NY and the author of the chapbook A Mountain of Past Lives & Things I’ve Learned (BlazeVOX, 2019). Her work often explores themes of queerness, joy, travel, grief, and geopolitics. She’s been published online and in-print including Anti-Heroin Chic, Rhythm & Bones, Peach Mag, and more. Find her at your local book shop or gallivanting with her greatest love (her dog).
Benjamin Brindise – Flash Fiction Editor
Benjamin Brindise is a Buffalo-born and bred. He is the author of the chapbook ROTTEN KID (Ghost City Press, 2017), the full length collection of poetry Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire (EMP Books, 2018), and the short fiction micro chap Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019). His poetry and fiction has been published widely online and in print including Maudlin House, Peach Mag, and The Marathon Literary Review. He tweets @benbrindise.
Ian Brunner – Short Fiction Editor
Ian Brunner is a fiction writer and poet from Buffalo, New York who is currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been featured in eight journals and zines. He is the author of the chapbook, Ruminations (CWP 2017)
Courtney Hilden – Social Media Coordinator/Reviews + Interviews Editor
Courtney Hilden’s work has appeared in multiple publications, including Fish Barrel Review, Coffin Bell: An Anthology of Dark Literature, Voice of Eve, and More of Us.
