Senior Editors | Lila Bonow, Aya Burton, Jason Germaine Hawkins, David Hsu-Tai Lo 羅煦泰, T.C. Martin, Amari Onyx
Editors working within, across, and between genres | Maggie Gibbs, Luke Koesters, Lani Lam, Morgan Varnado
Internet | Jason Germaine Hawkins, Amari Onyx, Gaia Rajan
Faculty Editor & Founder | Diana Khoi Nguyen
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Biographies
Lila Bonow is a writer and artist from a counterculture family in Seattle, Washington. Her work can be found on Poets.org, in Poetry Northwest, and forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and DIAGRAM. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Aya Burton is a writer and poet. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Exacting Clam, Aster(ix), Fahmidan Journal, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel-in-verse and a collection of short stories.
Jason Germaine Hawkins (he/him/his) is a Black queer poet and short fiction writer from Georgia. He is currently in the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared on Poets.org and is forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. He has attended the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop as a Maat scholar and the Tin House Summer Workshop. He loves RPGs, insects, and watching movies very closely. He is currently searching the archives for century-old entomology books.
Luke Koesters (he/they) is a writer of poetry and prose from Omaha, NE. He is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent work can be found in Bear Review and he can be most recently found nearby a body of water.
Lani Lam is a writer and poet from San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Open Ceilings Magazine and an anthology for The Sitting Room. She received her BA in English at UC Davis and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. She can usually be found combing through Wiki pages or browsing through trinkets.
David Hsu-Tai Lo 羅煦泰 is a poet, translator, and photographer from Taipei and raised in Ho Chi Minh City. He is currently attending the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh and has attended residencies at Tin House and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work has appeared in The Margins. He is former managing editor of Aster(ix) Journal. He is currently dreaming of setting up a fish tank in his Pittsburgh home.
T.C. Martin (he/they) is a nonfiction writer and poet from Southern Maryland. His work has appeared in Soft Punk Mag, Longleaf Review, Poets.org, and Roxane Gay’s The Audacity newsletter. His memoir in progress is a coming-of-age story about growing up fat and gay. He lives and teaches in Pittsburgh.
Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and her video work has been exhibited at Miller ICA and won the “New POV Award” from the Silver Falls Film Festival. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, Nguyen teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Randolph College and the University of Pittsburgh.
Amari Onyx is a Black trans writer and artist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Shade Journal, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Callaloo, and twurl. He is pursuing his MFA in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. Amari organizes meTamorphosis, and loves experimental image-making and vogueing fem.
Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). His work is published in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Best New Poets, the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, Post Road, AAWW, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest, intern at Copper Canyon Press, and former intern at Poets House. Gaia lives in New York, though he grew up in Ohio.
Morgan Varnado (he/them) is a writer, poet, and educator from Oak Park Illinois. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Brown University and is currently working towards achieving a Master’s of Fine Arts at the Pittsburgh University. His poem, “America Is Just a Negro in an Anthill” was published in December 2021 Issue of Poetry Magazine in conjunction with the poetry anthology Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School, published by Penguin Workshop.