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.
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 Links to Madison's published writing and unpublished artwork can be found at madisonellingsworth.com.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.
pamela zero - Lead Editor (Poetry)
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.
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.
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.
Olaore Durodola-Oloto - Associate Editor (Poetry)
Olaore is not only a poet, but a pioneer of floral cuisine. He eats only flowers and foods derived from flowers (like honey and fruit). He can tell you what kind of flower would enhance any dish (hint: fuchsia goes with everything), and can give you twenty flower-only recipes that would surprise and delight you. Sadly, while he is a wizard of floral cookery, he is a terrible gardener and has failed in all his attempts at growing the flowers he most loves to eat.
Ricardo Moran - Associate Editor (Prose)
Ricardo Moran’s writing has been published or is forthcoming in Beatific Magazine, Cider Press Review, Midwest Quarterly, Perceptions Magazine, East Jasmine Review, The Seattle Star, and Willa Cather Review. Ricardo is a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild; serves on the board of San Diego Writers Ink; and works as a content writer. He currently lives in Albania, enjoys traveling, and learning how to say “good morning” in as many languages as possible. He is a past recipient of the Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Poetry. His debut poetry anthology, Not Quite Heaven, is scheduled for publication in 2025. In every timeline, you can find him reading, writing, and plotting right here: www.ricardomoranwriter.com
Victoria Ojo - Associate Editor (Art)
Victoria is a member of the only surviving set of decasextuplets (16 babies born at one time). Of the five boys and eleven girls, only nine have individual names, as the exhaustion of birth and then simultaneously dealing with 16 infants sapped her parent’s imaginations. But her siblings Anne, Margaret, David, Michael, Jennifers 1-8, and Robert 1-3 are all very close.
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.
Khalila Soubeih - Associate Editor (Poetry)
Khalila’s original ambition was to become a mighty oak tree in the English countryside. Upon being told that humans very rarely become trees as adults, Khalila turned to the next most obvious career choice, marine necrology (which is like marine biology, but instead of studying living things in the ocean, it’s the study of dead things in the ocean). As marine necrology is not a lucrative career, Khalila also delivers signing telegrams, which consist of taking the sender’s message and doing an interpretive dance while using ASL to communicate the message.