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.

EMAIL KARAN

SUBMISSIONS | CONTESTS | COLLABORATIONS

SHANNAN MANN

Creative Director & 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. 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.

EMAIL SHANNAN

NEWSLETTER | SOCIAL MEDIA

SVETLANA LITVINCHUK

Managing Editor

Svetlana is a poet and permaculture farmer who graduated from University of New Mexico. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Only a Season (Bottlecap Features, 2024) and a forthcoming full-length poetry collection, Navigating the Hallways by Starlight (Fernwood Press, May 2026). Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and multiple Pushcarts. Her poetry appears in Pleiades, swamp pink, About Place, Flyway, ANMLY, Inflectionist Review, Sky Island Journal, Arkana, Rust + Moth, Plant-Human Quarterly and elsewhere. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she now tends her garden in Missouri.

EMAIL SVETLANA

OPERATIONS | EDITORIAL | GENERAL INQUIRIES

ANDREEA CEPLINSCHI

Associate 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.

JUSTINE PAYTON

Nonfiction 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.

EMAIL JUSTINE

EMMA MOTT

Reviews Editor

Emma graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in creative writing and psychology. After working as an art teacher at the Jacksonville Public Library, Emma moved to Spain, where she now instructs Basque people on best practices for differentiating between alligators and crocodiles in the guise of delivering English lessons. She also reads for the indomitable and relentlessly wonderful force known as ONLY POEMS.