celeste doaks [Poetry Editor, at large] is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields and American Herstory, a 2018 Backbone Press chapbook winner. She’s also the editor of the Not Without Our Laughter anthology and has been teaching creative writing for over a decade. Recently, her ekphrastic poems have been featured at the Whitney Museum of American art and the Brooklyn Museum. A 2022 Yaddo fellow, doaks lives in Baltimore with her husband and too many house plants.

Michael B. Tager [Managing Editor] is a writer and editor. His work has appeared places and can be found through his website. He is a part-time narwhal.

Heather Rounds [PR Manager] is the author of the novel THERE (Emergency Press, 2013), the novella SHE NAMED HIM MICHAEL (Ink Press, 2017) and the novel LIGHT THERE IS TO FIND (Adelaide Books, 2018). Her poetry and short works of fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including PANK,Big Lucks, Smokelong Quarterly andAtticus Review. Visit her at http://www.heatherrounds.com/

Taylor Lynn [Reader] has an English Degree from the University of Baltimore. When she is not reading, she enjoys working on creative projects.

Andrew Sargus Klein [eBook Designer] is a queer poet, essayist, graphic designer, and critic living in Baltimore with his partner and their two cats. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Hyperallergic, The Offing, and elsewhere. He sets e-type at Mason Jar Press and is a former editor at Platypus Press, Territory, and Pigeonholes. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and is the Print & Design Manager for the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

K.C. Mead-Brewer [Social Media Editor] is a writer of mostly weird, dark fiction. You can check out her stories here. Fun fact: K.C.’s rowhome used to be part of an orphanage in the early 1900s; no child-ghosts have been encountered yet, but one can hope.

Bree Boyd [Poetry Reader] is a poet, editor and MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore. Her poems have been featured in Welter's Journal and Lavender Lime Literary. Twitter: @qbbwrites

Steph Sundermann-Zinger [Jarnal Editor] is a queer poet living and writing in the Baltimore area. Her work explores themes of identity, relationship, and connection with the natural world, and has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Little Patuxent Review, Lines + Stars, Literary Mama, Every Day Fiction, Litbreak, and other journals. Her poem, "In Praise of Solitude," was selected as the winner of the 2023 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize.

Sarah Daniels [Editor in Chief] is a Gen X quasi-adult and former newspaper reporter. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore, where she teaches writing to undergraduates, high school students, and the incarcerated. Her fiction has appeared in the Rappahannock Review and Coffin Bell under her pseudonym, Persephone King.

Christian H Morales [Asst. Managing Editor] is a Honduran writer living in Tennessee. He spends his free time struggling with his reading and writing goals because most of the time he prefers to watch a movie instead. 

Ally Waldon [Asst. Book Editor] is a reader and subsequent writer from Baltimore. A grad of Thiel College and the University of Baltimore, Ally works at The Book Rack, managing operations for educational book distribution. She is also working on keeping her dog and cat from eating one another. Ally can be found performing around town with local choirs, on the most illustrious indie mastheads, and here.

Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes [Book Editor] was born in Harrisburg, PA and has a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA from George Mason University. She has appeared in The Rumpus, swamp pink, One Art, Cartridge Lit, Gulf Stream Lit, and SmokeLong Quarterly. Her book, Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf, is out from Mason Jar Press. Her name is a line of iambic pentameter.

Former Staff

• Rachel Wooley

• Briana Wingate

• Ian Anderson

• Ashley Miller

• Tonee Moll

• Bola King-Rushing

• Tomas Moniz

• Lizzie Travis

• Natalie Ko