Editorial Staff
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Julie Phillips Brown, Founding Editor
Julie Phillips Brown is an interdisciplinary poet, visual artist, literary critic, and editor. She is the author of The Adjacent Possible (Green Writers Press 2021), winner of the Hopper Poetry Prize, and a recipient of the Freund Prize from Cornell University. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ariadne, Borderlands, Columbia Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Empty House Press, The Fight & The Fiddle, interim, Jacket2, Literary Mama, Nashville Review, Plume, Posit, Rappahannock Review, Revolute, The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Talisman, Twyckenham Notes, Vassar Review, Vinyl, Yemassee, & elsewhere. A native of Philadelphia, she lives in Lexington, Virginia, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and studio art. Find her @jphillipsbrown & tactualpoiesis.com.
Saddiq Dzukogi, Poetry Editor
Saddiq Dzukogi is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Oxford Review of Books, Poetry Society of America, Gulf Coast, African American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, and Verse Daily. His chapbook Inside the Flower Room was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Series. He was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Saddiq is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Gabriel Gudding, Poetry Editor
Gabriel Gudding is the author of the books Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007), and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, 2002), as well as numerous chapbooks. His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, and in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, and &Now: Best Innovative Writing. His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Jessica Metzler, Arts Editor
Jessica Metzler’s fiction has appeared in Witness, and her academic writing has been published in edited collections from Palgrave Macmillan, Johns Hopkins UP, and LIT Verlag. Her writing has won awards from the Northeast Modern Language Association LGBTQ Caucus and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in English Language and Literature from Cornell University, holds an M.A. in English from Florida State University, and is currently pursing a fine arts certificate in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Cornell, and FSU. She currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Find her at jessicametzler.net.
Paloma Yannakakis, Poetry Editor
Originally from New Jersey, Paloma Yannakakis is a Mexican-Greek-American poet. Her work has recently appeared in Afternoon Visitor, Washington Square Review, Bodega Magazine, Lana Turner, and Green Mountains Review. She also enjoys collaborating with artists in other media. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of aesthetics and politics, particularly the aesthetics of gesture in writing. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University, and lives in New York.