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A.J. Jacono, Founder and Managing Editor
A.J. Jacono is a writer, musician, and mountaineer. He has received a number of honors for his writing, including the Herbert Lee Connelly Prize for Nonfiction, and has been anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense. He has also published work in venues such as Southeast Review, upstreet, Lunch Ticket, and Cleaver Magazine. He is the owner of Bibliotheque, an upcoming bookstore, café, and wine bar in Manhattan. A shameless Francophile/wine enthusiast, A.J. can be found playing guitar, riding his Triumph Bonneville, and skulking around bookstores in his free time.
Claudia Schatz, Fiction/CNF/Poetry Editor
Claudia Schatz is from New Haven, Connecticut (also known as the Greatest Small City in America). She has published short fiction and poetry in a variety of literary magazines, some of which you can read on her website, and formerly produced the storytelling podcast Rearview. She loves peanut butter, racing triathlons, pulling up weeds, and feminist podcasts. She’s an okay cook but is trying to improve so feel free to send her a good vegetarian recipe as a P.S. to your submission.
Eliza Wilkins, Poetry Editor
Eliza Wilkins is a psychology doctoral student, educator, writer, and dramaturg based in Philly. She spent much of her time before graduate school working in literary departments and teaching literacy and creative writing. She also co-produced Rearview the podcast with a fellow editor. She reads play submissions for The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and is somehow always editing new work. In her free time, she watches lesbian period dramas, cooks up vegetarian Hello Fresh meals, and writes poetry for her super secret instagram.
Jess Rush, Poetry/Visual Art Editor
Jess Rush is a transgenre and multidisciplinary artist fascinated with the body in language, image, and translation. Elsewhere: queer metaphysics. An intentional vagabond, their writing resides at the border between the French and English languages and has received numerous awards. Jess attended university in Connecticut, Edinburgh, and Paris, and has been published transatlantically. Most days, you can find them riding trains from end-to-end and making far-too-permanent homes of coffee shop window seats.
Cora Enterline, CNF/Fiction Editor
Cora Enterline is a grad student of Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Her fiction and personal essays have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Psaltery & Lyre, and Hominum Journal, and she was nominated for Best American Short Stories. When not in school, she hosts a wine club and literary salon. In her other free time, she dreams of living in a Donna Tartt novel or escaping to the Italian countryside and cooking ravioli by candlelight.
Finnian Hammonds Day, Fiction/CNF/Poetry Editor
Finnian Hammonds Day is an East Coast guy living on the West Coast. He writes fiction and poetry.