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A.J. Jacono, Founder and Managing Editor
A.J. Jacono is an author who has published in a wide range of literary journals, including Southeast Review, The Offing, upstreet,Lunch Ticket, Eckleburg, and The MacGuffin, among many others. He was also anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, a collection of the year’s finest mystery, thriller, and suspense short stories. He is the owner of Bibliotheque, an immensely popular bookstore, café, and wine bar in Manhattan, and his debut novel, YES, YES, will be published by Crooked Lane Books in spring 2027. Check out his work and more here.
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.
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/Poetry Editor
Cora Enterline is an American writer based in Ireland. She holds an MPhil in Comparative Literature from Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches at a writers’ residency program. Her fiction and personal essays have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Psaltery & Lyre, Hominum Journal, and elsewhere. She also edits for MOUTHFEEL and the Literature Review at New Square. In her free time, she runs a wine club and swims in the Irish Sea. Read more on her website.
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.