Editor in Chief – Nichole Goff is a poet and writer based in Tucson, AZ. She earned her MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. Her poetry is concerned with transformation through and despite political, personal, and worldly trauma. She believes poetry is a spiritual experience. Nichole loves work that plays with form, is performative, is weird, grotesque, and musical. Her chapbook Aluminum Necropolis was published by horse less press in 2016.
Managing Editor – Sally Roundhouse is the Executive Director of Casa Libre en la Solana as well as a poet and sound artist from Tucson, AZ. She is interested in work that is musical, surreal, political, silly, serious, imagistic, and new.
Poetry Editor – ari k. castañeda holds an MFA in poetry. her first full-length collection, RAM, is forthcoming from Damaged Goods Press (2018). she is currently a second-grade teacher and lives in her hometown, Louisville, KY, with her two cats. her poems can be found, or are forthcoming, in the following: glitterMOB, Yes, Poetry, Crab Fat, Bone Bouquet, Leopardskin & Limes and so on. ari is passionate about increasing the presence & voice of minority & non-binary writers within the writing world. women writers, LGBTQIA+ writers, writers who are POC, gender non-conforming & gender fluid writers, disabled & body positive writers, & writers who confront their trauma… ari wants to read your work! she is looking for poetry that is concerned with gender, sexuality, race, and translation. poetry that surprises her with its lyric and twists her insides into knots with its honesty. poetry that experiments with form and voice, that is not afraid to be paradoxical.
Fiction Editor – Ali Raz is a cyborg whose fiction has appeared in OCCULUM, QUEENMOB’S TEAHOUSE, COSMONAUTS AVENUE, and elsewhere. It has particular fondness for prose that maximally exploits the short form, and things generally lacking in heart.
Creative Nonfiction Editor – Em Bowen is a storyteller, a writer, an essayist, and a teacher living in Tucson Arizona. Their work has been published in the Tucson Weekly, Zocalo, The Atlantic, Wild Gender and The Feminist Wire. Em earned their MFA from Goddard College and is the former producer of the Tucson Gender Identity Project and current director of the Tucson Poetry festival. They adore work that honestly and clearly pieces through just about anything that bares it teeth, including but not limited to: the human condition, the destruction of the natural world, spirit, middle spaces and the ways in which we learn to survive better.