Editorial Board
Brendan Todt – Founder
Benjamin Woodard – Editor-in-chief
Benjamin Woodard (he/him) is a fiction writer, literary critic, and English professor, and was a Senior Editor at Numéro Cinq Magazine. His book reviews regularly appear in Publishers Weekly, Words Without Borders, Kenyon Review Online, and journals nationwide. His short fiction and nonfiction can be found in the anthologies Miscellany: Essays By Young(ish) American Voices, Best Microfiction 2019, and Best Microfiction 2021. Find him at benjaminjwoodard.com or @woodardwriter.
Liz Ann Young – Poetry Editor
Liz Ann Young (she/her) lives in upstate New York with dogs, cats, houseplants, and some humans too. She grew up in Michigan and received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published by Black Heart, Big Muddy, Tinderbox Poetry, Book of Matches, and San Pedro River Review, among others.
Whitney Bryant – Fiction Editor
Whitney Bryant lives in northern Virginia, where she moonlights as a high school English teacher in order to sustain her writing habit. Her work has appeared in the Georgia Review and One Story.
Cathy Ulrich – Fiction Editor
Cathy Ulrich is a mixed-race writer from Montana. Her flash fiction has been published in a variety of journals and included in several anthologies, including Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. She can be found on Twitter at @loki_writes.
Lindsey Danis – Creative Nonfiction Editor
Lindsey Danis is a queer writer of fiction and nonfiction. Lindsey’s essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, Fodor’s, Longreads, New World Writing, and Brain Mill Press Voices; accomplishments include a notable mention in Best American Travel Writing and being longlisted for The Alpine Fellowship and the #WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award. When not writing, Lindsey is most often found cooking, hiking, or kayaking in the Hudson Valley. More information via http://www.lindseydanis.com or @lindseydanis
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas – Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor
Alton Melvar M Dapanas (them/they) is the author of In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (Canada: Wrong Publishing, 2023) and Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021). Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine and a nominee to the Pushcart Prize for their lyric essay, they were published in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, Oxford Anthology of Translation, Sant Jordi Festival of Books, and the University of Alabama Press anthology Infinite Constellations. (https://linktr.ee/samdapanas)
Eimear Laffan – Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor
Eimear Laffan is an Irish writer living in the mountains of British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in Ambit, Funicular, MoonPark Review, the Very Much Alive anthology, Wildness Journal and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @cadmiumskies.
Mána Taylor – Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor
Mána Taylor (she/her) is a writer and editor living in New York. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Brooklyn Rail, The Drift, Tides Magazine, and other places. Her words have also been exhibited at Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norway), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Arc Gallery (Chicago), and BBK Studios (Berlin) to accompany artworks. Find her at manataylor.com and @mnaaht.
Paige Lalain – Creative Nonfiction Reader
Paige Lalain (she/her) is a Best of the Net-nominated essayist and professional editor based in Michigan’s thumb. She has a creative writing degree with a specialization in literary nonfiction from Oakland University. A cathartic and reflective writing facilitator, Paige has guest lectured for an art therapy master’s program, and she holds workshops with clients in the states and abroad to raise money for humanitarian causes. In addition to her teaching, she serves as Head CNF Editor of Nightingale & Sparrow. In her free time, you can find her binge-watching just about anything, holding picket signs on busy street corners, or revising her manuscript. She’s on Twitter @paige_lalain.
Hannah Levy – Creative Nonfiction Reader
Hannah Levy (she/her) is a writer and editor living in Berkeley, CA. She’s the founder of The Rebis, a print publication that celebrates tarot and creative expression. You can find her hiking in the redwoods, horseback riding, and playing extensive make-believe games with her daughter. Find her at @hnnhlvy and hannaheve.com
Para Vadhahong – Creative Nonfiction Reader
Para Vadhahong is a Thai American writer whose poetry and fiction explore themes of mythology, storytelling, coming of age, ancestry, migrations, and homelands. She is the winner of Salt Hill Journal’s Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize (2022) and Lex Allen Literary Festival’s Fiction Prize (2023). Her publications can be found at paravadhahong.weebly.com.
Katie M Zeigler – Creative Nonfiction Reader
Katie M Zeigler (she/her) is a writer and professor living in Walnut Creek, CA. Zeigler holds a BA and MA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s College. She has had short fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of outlets, including Smokelong Quarterly, Atlas & Alice, The Centifictionist, Digging, Griffel, Wilson Quarterly, Fish Anthology and Stanford Magazine. Zeigler won the 2023 Baltimore Review Winter Contest, the Stanford Magazine Fiction Contest, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest, and placed second in Fish Anthology’s international flash fiction contest. She has also performed readings of her short fiction for The Maine Review, LitQuake, Why There Are Words and the Peninsula Literary Society. She currently teaches creative writing at Diablo Valley College. In addition to her teaching, Katie serves as the Editor in Chief of NiftyLit.
Sarah Twombly – Reader
Sarah Twombly’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The Normal School, The Rumpus, CRAFT, and Contrary Magazine among others, and is forthcoming from Ploughshares. She is the recipient of the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction, the Glascock Prize in Poetry, and the Katherine McFarland Prize for Fiction. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. After years in the city, she now lives in the woods of Maine with her wild family and her very tame dog. Find her on Instagram @Twombles_2
Former Editors and Readers:
Arielle McManus
Mark Wallace
Maggie Fulmer
Summar West
Kristen M. Ploetz
Mike Nagel
Emily Arnason Casey
Breana Steele
Donald Edem Quist
Sarah Seltzer
Liz Blood
Jon Cone
Mahtem Shiferraw
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