Editorial Team
(EIC & Founding Editor) Sarah Ann Winn’s (she/her) Alma Almanac was selected by Elaine Equi as winner of the 2017 Barrow Street Book Prize. She’s the author of five chapbooks, most recently, Ever After the End Matter (Porkbelly, 2019). Find her at Poet Camp, an online community she founded in 2015.
(Editor) Twila Liggitt (she/her) brings 15 years of writing experience as an articulate writer, editor, communicator, and expert in producing compelling storytelling for global audiences. She’s worked as a music and food writer in both Los Angeles and New York City, has been published in Forbes, led the content teams at Pandora Music, and founded a digital content agency. She’s an avid reader of over 100 books per year, loves maintaining her own Little Free Library for her neighborhood, and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, and pet bunny.
(Production Manager) Gregory Luce (he/him), author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Memory and Desire, Tile, and Riffs & Improvisations, has published widely in print and online. He serves as Poetry Editor for The Mid-Atlantic Review. In addition to poetry, he writes a monthly column on the arts for Scene4 magazine. He is retired from National Geographic, works as a volunteer writing tutor/mentor for 826DC, and lives in Arlington, VA.
(PDF Design & Reader) Alexis M. Collazo (she/her) is a Brooklyn born and raised writer. She writes in a wide variety of styles, forms and genres inspired by a wide range of interest including horror, mythology, tarot cards, music, and other creative arts. She’s written for Neonsplattercom, diyMFA.com and SeniorPlanet.org.; her poetry has appeared in Common Unity: An anthology and Gnashing Teeth’s Making Room Zine; and facilitates online workshops from her current home in Pennsylvania. For more info visit, www.AlexisMCollazo.com.
(Web Design & Reader) Alana Torrez (she/her) is a poet and editor from Austin, Texas. Her work has been published in Rio Review, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems. Her obsessions (poetical and otherwise) include loneliness, tree houses, and the hidden lives of squirrels.
(Reader) Sarah DeWeerdt (she/her) is a freelance science journalist, poet, and flash essayist based in Seattle, Washington. Across genres, she crafts stories of the natural world at the intersection of curiosity and tenderness.
(Reader) Sherry Eastwood (she/her) is based in Winnipeg, Canada. Reading and maintaining the Little Free Library in her yard help keep her sane during the long, frigid winters!
(Reader) Emily Patterson (she/her) is the author of So Much Tending Remains (2022), To Bend and Braid (2023), and haiku at 5:38 a.m. (2024). Her work appears in SWWIM, Rust & Moth, CALYX, North American Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, tiny wren, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. In 2024, she was a finalist in the Sweet Lit Poetry Contest and runner-up in the Sundress Publications Poetry Broadside Contest. Emily received her M.A. in Education from Ohio State University and works as a curriculum designer. She lives with her family, including two talkative Siberian huskies, in Columbus, Ohio.
(Reader) Pamela Murray Winters (she/her) lives and writes in Maryland with her family (two of whom are cats). She has one poetry collection, The Unbeckonable Bird (FutureCycle Press), and is working on others. When she’s not involved in poetry activities, she’s a competitive quizzer. (In 2008, she lost on Jeopardy!, baby.)
Advisory Board
Jo Angela Edwins
Steph Liberatore
Valerie Wallace