Meet the editorial team!
Editor-in-chief
Icarus Grey (they/them) is an artist and poet currently residing in the Midwest. You can find their work most recently in the Hyacinth Review and corporeal. In their spare time, they bake a mean quiche and dream of one day learning to play the banjo.​​ They are assisted by Salem, 25 pounds of pure love and the best cat a guy could ever have.
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Assistant Editor/Little Jester
​Nyx E. B., (they/them) is in fact a very manly muppet with a passion for paper mâché and set building for community theatres. If they don’t have paint on their pants, they will eventually. No clothing is safe. They also dabble their little muppet mits in makeup, and poetry.
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Poetry
​Elly Belle (they/them) is a multiply-disabled queer and trans writer from Brooklyn, who takes puns, friendship, and mycelium networks very seriously. They are always foraging for hope. Elly loves threading poems together with lyrical repeat phrases to trace where they've come from and where they are. Recent and forthcoming poetry publications include pieces in Bullshit Lit, no, dear magazine, dead end zine, and an upcoming anthology from Jessica Kingsley Publishers. As a journalist and cultural critic, Elly has regularly written and reported for outlets including Teen Vogue, Prism, SELF Magazine, XTRA, and more.
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Poetry
Ruth Irene (she/her), originally from Chicago, is a mother to three girls; an admitted undergraduate degree candidate at Harvard Extension School, Harvard University; and a tea addict. She spends her weekends hiking, reading, and snuggling with her editor, Atticus, the fluffiest Ragdoll cat on the East Coast. She has poetry being published in 2024 by Persephone’s Fruit, The Periwinkle Pelican, RedSheep, and Haunted Words Press.
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Nonfiction/Creative Nonfiction
Laura Navarro (she/her) is an emerging writer from El Paso, Texas. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. Her work has recently appeared in Chrysalis and the Periwinkle Pelican. Her writing examines aspects of the human condition such as anxiety, loneliness, and insecurity.
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Fiction
Alaina Kelley (she/they) is a long-time resident of Northern Alabama, and she’s got stories to go along with it. She recently graduated from The University of Alabama with her Bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in Digital, Public, and Professional Writing. She is the 2024 winner of the Greer Marechal Memorial Prizes in Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.
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