Topaz Winters, founder & editor-in-chief

is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022), Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019), & poems for the sound of the sky before thunder (Math Paper Press 2017). She serves as co-editor of Kopi Break, a journal of new Singapore poetry. Her work has been published in & featured by Poets.org, The Drift, Passages North, Hobart, The Boiler, The Straits Times, American Banker, The Business Times, the National University of Singapore, & the Center for Fiction. She lives between New York & Singapore.


Danie Shokoohi, managing editor

is a Boston-based writer and a 2020 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA program. Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, New Ohio Review, The Puritan, Foglifter, and Lake Effect. In 2022, she was a participant in the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop.


Ajibola Tolase, press editor

is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in American Chordata, LitHub, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.


Courtney Felle, press editor

is a recent graduate of Kenyon College who lives between Western New York and Washington, D.C. Their writing can be found in Monstering Magazine, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Lickety-Split, and The Ellis Review, among others. They are a big fan of long road trips, large mugs of tea, ultra-specific Spotify playlists, and disabled community support.


Amanda Hawkins, journal editor

has a book of poetry, The Art of Articulation, forthcoming with Wandering Aengus Press. They are a Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Mellon Public Scholar and winner of the Scotti Merrill Award from Key West Literary Seminar and the Editor’s Prize for poetry from The Florida Review. Single works can be found in OrionBoston ReviewThe Cincinnati ReviewHoney LiteraryThe MothTerrain, and Tin House Online.


Lee Anderson, journal editor

is a trans writer with roots in the American Mid-, South-, and Pacific Northwest and an MFA from Northern Arizona University. They have been published in places such as The Rumpus, Columbia Journal, and Gertrude, and are an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop and the Mountain Words Writer-in-Residence program. You can learn more about them on Twitter @bxfrizzle.


Kate Wilson-Burnett, interview correspondent

lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and attends Westminster College. They serve as a poetry editor for ellipsis… Literature & Art and Rose Quartz Magazine. Three of their poems were selected for the Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize and their work can be found with Pressure Gauge Press, Philosophical Idiot, and Write About Now, among others.