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EDITOR-in-CHIEF

Millie Tullis (she/they) is a writer, teacher, folklorist, and researcher. She holds an MFA from George Mason University and an MA in American Studies & Folklore from Utah State University. Her work has been published in Sugar House Review, Rock & Sling, Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Raised in northern Utah, she lives in upstate South Carolina. You can find more of her work on her website.

NONFICTION EDITOR

Shaun Anderson is a writer/baker living in Logan, Utah. He studied creative writing at Utah State University, His work has been published by The Rectangle, Mud Season Review, Sink Hollow, and elsewhere. You can connect with Shaun on Twitter and on his website.

POETRY / PROSE EDITOR

Allie Spikes’s essays and poetry have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, the Rumpus, River Teeth, the Los Angeles Review, Bellingham Review, Literary Mama, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and others. She was awarded the Centrum Scholarship to the Port Townsend Writers Conference in 2020, and her essays have been shortlisted at Creative Nonfiction, at Fourth Genre for the Steinberg Essay Contest, and for the Pinch Nonfiction Literary Award. She was managing editor of Bellingham Review 2019-2020, and she copy edits manuscripts for Orison Books. Find her at alliespikes.com.

POETRY EDITORS 

Romana Iorga is the author of Temporary Skin (Glass Lyre Press, 2024) and a woman made entirely of air (Dancing Girl Press, 2025). Her poems have appeared in various journals, including New England Review, Lake Effect, The Nation, as well as on her poetry blog at clayandbranches.com.

Reyzl Grace is a Jewish lesbian writer, librarian, and cultural activist. Her original poetry, short stories, and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Room, Rust & Moth, So to Speak, and other periodicals. Her Yiddish translations have been nominated for Best Literary Translations and appeared in In geveb, Alchemy, and elsewhere. She currently serves as a poetry editor for Psaltery & Lyre and a public librarian in Minneapolis, where she lives with her novelist girlfriend, arguing over which of them is the better writer. (It’s her girlfriend.)

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest living in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of full-length collection Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poems (Fernwood Press) and two chapbooks, Woman as Communion (Game Over Books) and Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating (Ethel). Connect with her more at meganmcdermottpoet.com or on Twitter @megmcdermott92. 

FOUNDING EDITOR

Dayna Patterson is a Thea-curious recovering Mormon, a textile artist, amateur fungophile, and macrophotography enthusiast. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Bellingham Review, Carolina Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Hotel Amerika, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Passages North, POETRY, Sugar House Review, Thrush, Zone 3, Western Humanities Review, Whale Road Review, and others. She is the author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020), a hybrid collection of poetry and lyric essay that explores her Mormon ancestry and upbringing, her mother’s coming out, and the author’s eventual apostasy from the faith she was raised in. Her second book, a poetry collection entitled O Lady, Speak Again (Signature Books, 2023), explores characters from Shakespeare’s plays—with “irreverent bardolatry” and a Post-Mormon feminist twist. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019). 

READERS

Izzy Astuto (he/they) is a writer who graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College. His work has previously been published by Hearth and Coffin and Renesme Literary, amongst others. Their Instagram is izzyastuto2.0 and Twitter is adivine_tragedy. More information about him can be found here.

Letitia Jiju is interested in the poetry of wave functions, quarks and the little things. Her work appears in Ninth Letter, Passages North, ANMLY, Prism international, trampset and elsewhere. She reads fiction for Longleaf Review and poetry for Psaltery & Lyre. Asides from writing, she is an electronics and communications engineer and works in international trade. Find her on Instagram/Twitter @eaturlettuce, Bluesky @letitia.bsky.social.

Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet and author from Pennsylvania. Her recent work appears in or is forthcoming from Gulf Coast, Passages North, Tupelo Quarterly, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, Epoch, Salt Hill, and others. She is the Managing Editor of River & South Review and a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. Find her at https://www.lizzykepolishan.com or on Instagram @dizzymiss.lizzy. 

Brandon Hansen is from a village in northern Wisconsin. He studied writing along Lake Superior, and then trekked out to the mountains, where he earned his MFA as a Truman Capote scholar at the University of Montana. He is a tutor for the Princeton Review and a fisherman. His work has been Pushcart Nominated, and can be found in The Baltimore Review, Quarterly West, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter: @BatBrandon_

Matt Stefon lives and writes north of Boston. He studied at Penn State and Boston University, and has been religion editor of Encyclopedia Brittanica, poetry editor of West Texas Literary Review, volunteer reader for Taco Bell Quarterly, English and humanities adjunct at Middlesex Community College, and online religion adjunct at Norwich University. He has one e-chapbook, one micro-chapbook, two print chapbooks, and 463 wiffle ball home runs, which places him on some all-time leaderboard somewhere.

Amy Poague holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Guesthouse, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Figure 1, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Rogue Agent, Juked, The Indianapolis Review, and others. She can be found here.

Alyssa Witbeck holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Montana where she was an editor for CutBank. Her work is published or forthcoming in Mayday, Fiction Attic Press, Miracle Monocle, Rupture, Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Best of the Net and won the Original Utah Writing Competition. Based in Utah, she teaches university English composition courses. She crochets an excessive number of stuffed animals, for no real reason. Find her at alyssawitbeck.com.

Donna Spruijt-Metz is author of To Phrase a Prayer for Peace (Wildhouse Publishing, 2025) and General Release from the Beginning of the World (Free Verse Editions, 2023). She’s an emeritus professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. She lived in the Netherlands for 22 years and translates Dutch poetry. Her collaborative book And Scuttle My Balloon (with Flower Conroy) and her translation of Lucas Hirsch’s Wu Wei Eats an Egg are both forthcoming (2025). Chapbooks include Slippery Surfaces, And Haunt the World (with Flower Conroy) and Dear Ghost (winner Harbor Review Editor’s prize).  Her poems appear in Poem-a-day, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She gets restless..

A former middle-school principal, learning specialist, and English teacher, Rebekah Wolman is a 2021 winner of Cultural Daily’s Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and the 2022 winner of the Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor. Her poems have appeared in a variety of print and on-line journals, and her chapbook, What the Hollow Held, is No. 7 in the A.V. Christie Series from Seven Kitchens Press. A transplant from New England, she lives in SF, CA, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land, where she lazily tends a native plant garden. Find her on Instagram @rgordonw56.

Jacob Taylor grew up in Utah and is currently completing a PhD in creative writing at Illinois State University. They are the author of Medicine Cabinet (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Their work has appeared in Birdcoat Quarterly, Sugar Suites, Press Pause Press, and elsewhere. You can find them online at byjacobtaylor.com

Grace Huang is a young writer from Wisconsin. Her work has been published in the New York Times and Blue Marble Review, among others. She is an incoming student at Harvard College, where she plans to study English and History & Science.