EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of Before Isadore from Sundress Publications. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast Journal, The Texas Observer, The Missouri Review, Four Way Review, Harpur Palate, Sixth Finch, and Passages North, among others.

POETRY READERS: Mark Allen Jenkins, William Durham

FICTION EDITOR:

Joseph Pfister’s fiction has appeared in PANK, Oyster River Pages, and, X-R-A-Y, among others. He is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches fiction at the Brooklyn Brainery. He is currently at work on his first novel.

FICTION EDITOR:

Kimberly Garza is the author of The Last Karankawas (Holt) and her prose has been published in Lit Hub, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Uvalde, Texas, she has served as a reader and editor at American Literary Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

FICTION EDITOR:

Rebecca Bernard’s debut collection of stories, Our Sister Who Will Not Die, won the 2021 Non/Fiction Prize from The Journal and is forthcoming from Ohio State’s Mad Creek Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Juked, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Fiction from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work received notable mention in the Best American Short Stories of 2018. She is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Angelo State University

FICTION EDITOR:

Jahzerah Brooks is a writer and mother who recently earned her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. Jahzerah lives in the Midwest and has served as both reader and lead fiction editor at Lunch Ticket. Her fiction has been published in Mock Turtle Zine. Jahzerah is currently working on her first novel.

ESSAYS EDITOR: 

Amanda Yanowski’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Bellingham Review, Hobart, The Carolina Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of North Texas and has served as fiction, reviews and interviews editor for the American Literary Review. Originally from Minnesota, she lives in Denton, Texas, where she works as a writer and editor. 

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FOUNDING EDITOR AND PUBLISHER:

Sebastián H. Páramo is the author of the forthcoming collection Portrait of Us Burning (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, 2023). His work has recently appeared in the Academy of American Poets‘ Poem-A-Day, Split Lip, New England Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin, the Vermon Studio Center, and CantoMundo. He is Poetry Editor for Deep Vellum, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.