Tamara Burross Grisanti
Founder / Editor-in-Chief
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Tamara Burross Grisanti is a writer, editor, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poetry and fiction appear or are forthcoming in New World Writing, Eunoia Review, Chicago Literati, Former Cactus, Corvus Review, Pussy Magic, The New Mexico Review, and The Literary Hatchet. She loves tactile hobbies, and plays acoustic guitar, draws comics, knits, and gardens. She lives in Buffalo, New York, where she spends her summers dreading the winters.
Sarah Saint
Associate Editor
Matthew Dube
Assistant Editor
Matt Dube teaches creative writing and American literature at William Woods University. His stories have appeared in Minor Literature(s), Sourland Mountain Review, Bad Pony, and elsewhere. He’s at work on a dark novel but it’s hard because he spends so much time in the light.
A. Leigh
Assistant Editor
A. Leigh has three degrees in the Arts. She has a passion for reading and is enthralled with the creativity other minds possess. She lives in Buffalo, New York with her husband and small zoo of pets. She is a teacher by day, and her hobbies include crochet and vegan cooking.
Desmond White
Assistant Editor
Desmond White teaches rhetoric and writes when his students aren’t looking. His speculative fiction has appeared in HeartWood, Kasma, The Tishman Review, Literally Stories, Rue Scribe, Ghost Parachute, and Z Publishing’s America’s Emerging Writers. Be wary of his blog www.desmondwrite.com and steer away from mindless tweets @desmondwrite.
Peter Ramos
Poetry Editor
Peter Ramos’s poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Puerto del Sol, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse, Fugue, Indiana Review, Poet Lore, Mississippi Review (online), and other journals. Nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize, Peter is the author of one book of poetry, Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (BlazeVox Books, 2008), and three shorter collections: Television Snow (Back Pages Books 2015), Watching Late-Night Hitchcock & Other Poems (handwritten press 2004), and Short Waves (White Eagle Coffee Store Press 2003). Peter has also published criticism on Kate Chopin, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda and Langston Hughes, James Wright and César Vallejo, modern and contemporary Latin American poetry, and William Carlos Williams. He has been invited as a poetry fellow to the following artist colonies: the CoLab Residency at St. Mary’s College of Maryland; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation. He holds graduate degrees from George Mason University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. An associate professor of English at Buffalo State College, Peter teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature.
Sean William Dever
Poetry Editor
Sean William Dever is a Boston-based poet, educator, and editor with a MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry from Emerson College. He teaches College Writing at Emerson College and Poetry at Boston Architectural College. In addition, he also works as a Professional ESL Tutor at Northeastern University. He has recently been published or is forthcoming from HOOT, Stickers, Unearthed Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell Literary Magazine, and Fearsome Critters Literary Magazine among others. Sean is the author of the chapbook, I’ve Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now published by Swimming with Elephants Publications.
Juliana Motoki
Short Story Editor
Juliana Motoki is a former English teacher and current library assistant who earned her BA in Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since gifted with a copy of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary in the 6th grade, she has been addicted to everything relating to cats, horror, and the weird. She is currently the Strange Editor for Rune Bear, an online literary journal devoted to speculative flash fiction. You can find her lurking in Colorado where she lives with her husband and their cat children.
Madison McLoughlin
Short Story Editor
Madison McLoughlin is a third-year student at Loyola University New Orleans, where she studies both English literature and mass communication journalism. Originally from Southwest Michigan, Madison’s love of New Orleans began early in life, as did her love of travel, when she attended her first Mardi Gras at six-months old. When she’s not reading or writing, Madison can be found in the quirky coffee shops, roaming bookstores, figuring out her next trip, nerding out over sea turtles, or exploring The Big Easy. Her work can be found in Coffin Bell Journal, The Loyola Maroon, The Wolf Magazine, and Where Y’at Magazine.
Jared Benjamin
Reviews Editor
Jared Benjamin, also known by his pseudonym J.B. Stone, is a neurodivergent performance poet, reviewer, and writer from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo. He is the author of two chapbooks, A Place Between Expired Dreams And Renewed Nightmares (Ghost City Press 2018) and forthcoming, Fireflies & Hand Grenades (Stasia Press 2019). His prose, reviews, and poetry have appeared in BlazeVOX, Crack the Spine, Maudlin House, Gravel, Yes Poetry, Glass, Empty Mirror, Occulum, and elsewhere. You can check out more of his work at jaredbenjaminstone.com or check out his tweets @JB_StoneTruth.
Dorian J. Sinnott
Social Media Editor
Dorian J. Sinnott is a graduate of Emerson College’s Writing and Publishing program, currently residing in the historic Kingston, NY with his two cats. He spends his weekends cosplaying at comic cons up and down the east coast, and herding cats at his local animal shelter. When he’s not writing, Dorian loves playing violin, English horseback riding, and watching and reading all things horror. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including: Crab Fat Literary Magazine, The Hungry Chimera, and Spill Yr Guts.
Lindsey Turner
Designer
Lindsey Turner is an art director, writer, and photographer in Nashville. She lives with her husband, son, and dog. She still hasn’t figured out what she wants to be when she grows up, but she’s having fun anyway. She blogs every now and again at theogeo.com and wastes more time than is wise on Twitter: @tindseylurner.