Editors
Madeline Blair,
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 Blood+Honey Lit, Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Michigan City Review of Books, Luna Luna Magazine, 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.
Gillian Adkins,
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.
t.r. san,
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.
Minghan Zou,
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, HAD, 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.
Anthony Carpenter,
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.
Matthew Y. Wu,
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.
Ruby Robison
Art Co-Editor
Ruby is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She was a finalist for the 2025 Ploughshares Emerging Writers Award, and an attendee of the 2025 Tin House Workshop. She has a forthcoming column on perfume in Dirty Magazine. Other publications include Haloscope, Dreamboy Bookclub, and more. With a background in media research, Ruby is currently working on a collection of essays about the semiotics of sex in American culture. Links to more of her work can be found on instagram @darlingmsbaby.
Jackie Spryshak
Art Co-Editor
Jackie Spryshak is a Chicago-based artist, originally from Michigan. Her work has been shown in local spaces such as Happy Gallery and Ne2 Space, and featured in Pinky Magazine. Professionally, Jackie works in strategic communications with a focus on the clean energy and climate tech sectors. She is constantly inspired and energized by the vibrant artistic community in Chicago.