Semilore Kilaso - Editor-in-chief
Semilore Kilaso loves to collect photographs of humans, architecture, wildlife, and landscape. When she is not playing Scrabble or reading books, she is reading lines from architectural drawings. You can read her works here https://linktr.ee/SemiloreKilaso.
SANDHYA BARLAAS - MANAGing EDITOR
Sandhya invented all the numbers over 147. Her specialty is odd numbers, although she also likes more conventional ones, too. Her affinity with numbers carries over to her spectacular ability to create intricate origami fractals, such as her 1:10 scale origami model of Norway’s coastline, which she keeps hung on a string outside her bedroom window where everyone can enjoy it.
Madison Ellingsworth - Lead Editor (prose)
Madison Ellingsworth is an avid runner, surfer, and writer who graduated several years ago from the University of Southern Maine. She spends her post-graduate life making ceramic fish, listening to podcasts, and taking time off to blow all her savings and travel the world. Links to Madison's published writing and unpublished artwork can be found at madisonellingsworth.com.
Mohammed Yusuf - Lead editor (art)
Mohammed U. Yusuf is a writer and editor from North-Central, Nigeria. His works have recently appeared—or are forthcoming—in Frontier Poetry, RoseyRavelston Books, Lunaris Review, The Lumiere Review, Olongo Africa Journal, KonyaShamsrumi, among others. He is an Associate Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review and tweets @Unyomo.
Ashley Bach - Associate editor (social media)
Ashley’s life was changed fundamentally by the pandemic. Prior to 2020, Ashley had a hard time finding steady employment, despite having expertise in astrology, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and battle tactics. Once the pandemic forced everyone to work remotely via Zoom, Ashley was no longer handicapped by the fact that she is a centaur. We are lucky to have her.
Debbie Collins - Associate Editor (POETRY)
Debbie is a poet who lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia, where she can be found roaming the streets looking for inspiration and a good cup of coffee. Don’t let her friendly demeanor fool you - she can beat you at arm wrestling without spilling a drop. With two chapbooks and a Best of the Net nomination under her belt, she aspires to write a full-length poetry collection. When not reading or writing, Debbie can be found sleeping, walking, and sleeping some more. That book may never get finished.
erin conway - associate editor (social media)
Erin is an experienced classroom teacher, nonprofit staff trainer and curriculum designer who lived ten years in indigenous villages in Guatemala. When asked what she loved most about education, her response was, “the storytelling”. After she returned to live on her family's farm in Wisconsin, she also returned to writing. Erin’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry are published in a variety of literary magazines, including The Hopper’s fiction submission for the 2019 Push Cart Prize. Her work in progress can be found at www.erinconway.com. Erin spends a great deal of time watching her niece’s current Netflix binge and dedicates the remainder to boring her dogs by exploring books, learning new languages and contributing to libraries that thrive across borders.
Jasmin Davis - associate editor (Poetry)
Jasmin Davis is an aspiring contemporary author currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Her work tends to focus on what it means to be human. Shining a spotlight on all the love, grief, and raw moments most people turn a blind eye to. When she's not reading, she's slowly working on one of her many unfinished stories or browsing for more books to add to her growing pile. She enjoys listening to music, eating sweets, studying Japanese, watching anime, analyzing motifs in media, and watching horror movies. She is also a volunteer poetry reader for Kitchen Table Quarterly. Jasmin is currently in the process of having her first book of poetry published.
Sam Fowler - associate editor (prose)
Sam is the former owner of the first and only all-volunteer circus. At its height, Phowler’s Phenomenal Phair boasted a lion and lion tamer (who had both been employed by a now-defunct zoo), a dozen acrobats, a knife thrower, and a high-wire act made up of twenty-seven people aged 3 months to 6 years. Sadly, the circus had to be abandoned when its staff was reduced to a sick elephant and a man who would guess people’s hair color.
Wilson Hannalei - Associate Editor (poetry)
Wilson Hannalei is an emerging queer Filipino writer and poet from the valley of the Bay Area in California. Alongside being a student at the University of Santa Cruz, California, where they study literature, they are also an orchard farmer, teacher, painter, mental health advocate, and an entomology aficionado. An avid horror fan of all mediums, though with a special attention towards video games and comics.
tessa lee - associate editor (prose)
Tessa (she/her) is a 19-year-old writer based in California. She is a college undergrad studying English literature and sociology. When she isn't tinkering with a story or tucked into a book, Tessa likes to spend time with her friends and drink unhealthy amounts of boba.
Yasmeen Owens - Associate Editor (poetry)
Yasmeen Owens is a prolific writer with a list of notable publications, including The Rainbow Poem, Atlantis, Earth and Sky Anthology, and Seabreeze Literary Magazine. In her leisure time, she enjoys taking her beloved dogs Barney and Miracle for long walks, indulging in a good book or immersing herself in a captivating video game. Yasmeen is determined to publish her first novel series with the unwavering support of her family and friends.
Li Quintana - Publisher
Li Quintana is the publisher at Zoetic Press and was, until early 2024, editor in chief for NonBinary Review. Quintana was formerly the Editor in Chief of Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of the MFA program of Antioch University Los Angeles. They have been on the Boards of the Bay Area Book Festival and Nanowrimo. They write, too. Google them. You can read their stuff. They also lecture about writing-adjacent subjects for Antioch University’s MFA program. They’re a popular speaker, and, for a reasonable fee, will show up at your party and act charming and mysterious, thereby increasing your social capital.
Their work has been published in Extract(s), Red Fez, Drunk Monkeys, The Weekender, The Rambler, Role Reboot, Willow Review, SLAB, and other fine venues.
pamela zero - associate editor (prose)
Though she's been writing non-fiction for decades, Pamela finally ventured into creating science fiction in 2019. Her trilogy, the Visitor Series, follows the lives of people pulled hundreds of thousands of years into the future. She is a member of several writing groups, has won several awards for her short stories, and is currently editing the second novel, Ose, in the Visitor Series. Pamela is based in Ventura, California, and spends her time writing and teaching. Now and then she travels, gardens, cooks, and genuinely tries.