FOUNDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

A poet, editor, and award-winning filmmaker from Chicago, IL, Madeline received her BA in Creative Writing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Michigan City Review of Books, Luna Luna Magazine, Libre Lit, Ekphrasis Magazine, and more. She was once quoted in The New York Times on her passion for clean air. Her work is often expressed through an effervescent, dreamlike, surrealist, and at times sardonic lens, but never lacks sincerity.

DEPUTY EDITOR

Imani is a St. Louis-born poet and editor specializing in chapbook self-publication and collaboration in the Chicago literary scene. While receiving her BA in Environmental Policy from Loyola University Chicago, she founded The Silver Cherry Publishing, releasing three handmade chapbooks. She has also published a full length poetry book, Chrysalis, with Raging Possum Press. Imani has been focusing on poetry performance and event curation as her career progresses.

MANAGING EDITOR

Gillian is a Chicago-based writer, storyteller, and editor who enjoys exploring tenderness in her work. Her poems and stories have appeared in Stella Veritatis and the Written on a Napkin Zine. She works as a community engagement specialist at Big Heart Health and in her free time she enjoys spending time with her dogs and her friends. When she’s not out and about, she is normally adding another layer of dye onto her hair.  

POETRY CO-EDITOR

t.r. is a rakhine-"burmese" lesbian poet-writer and translator currently based in “Sydney,” on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. t.r. can be found & read in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Best of the Net, Smokelong Quarterly, X-R-A-Y, The Offing, HAD, &c. t.r. is drawn to work that is risky/ risking, defiant, surprising, and playful in its profundity. read & reach @thoushallkill on Twitter/ Bluesky/ Upscrolled, or trsan.neocities.org.

POETRY CO-EDITOR

Minghan is a Shanghai-born writer and poet who finds wonder in small details. His work bridges self-discovery with the collective tapestries of Chinese culture, and is appearing or forthcoming in Tap Into Poetry, Eunoia Review, Beyond Words, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Blueberry Magazine, Temple Lit Mag, The Write Launch, and more. He serves as a Teen Editor for Inlandia, a poetry reader for The Dodge, and EIC of The Ampersand Quarterly. Outside of writing, he hosts two radio shows and is a prolific shower singer.

PROSE CO-EDITOR

Anthony is a writer born, mostly raised, and still living/stuck in the Midwest. He has spent much of his life atop his gray Gary Fisher bicycle and white Honda NX125 motorcycle, as well as inside the cabin of his toasted marshmallow Chevy Spark, traveling down country roads surrounded by crop fields that were once flowing plains. Amidst the flatness, he has come to know a thing or two about solitude, longing, and chasing horizons, themes he often explores in his stories. His work can be found on Substack @guyiswriting.

PROSE CO-EDITOR

Matthew is a writer from north Jersey and a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His fiction deals in the poetry of the surreal, striving to find the humor in loneliness and religion in the absurd. When not writing, he is often biking, playing tennis, and thinking of somewhere else he’d like to be.