Topaz Winters, founder & editor-in-chief
is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022), which won the Button Poetry Short Form Contest & was a 2025 Sealey Challenge Pick & LitBowl Best Poetry Book of 2022. Her debut poetry collection, Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024), was a finalist in the Broken River & Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prizes. Topaz’s poetry, fiction, & nonfiction are published in The Drift, Waxwing, Passages North, Pithead Chapel, The Boiler, & others. Her work has received support from the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, & the National YoungArts Foundation. She lives between New York & Singapore.
Lee Anderson, managing editor
is a trans writer with an MFA from Northern Arizona University. Their award-nominated work is published in the Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 anthology and can otherwise be found in places like Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Brevity, Salt Hill Journal, and The Rumpus. They live in Chicago with their partner and a cat named Pretzel.
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, press editor
is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese-American diaspora writer whose work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, ANMLY, fifth wheel press, Discount Guillotine, and other publications. Kyla-Yến is a 2026 BIPOC Fellow for Trans Poetics Archive, and they have also been awarded residencies, workshops, and fellowships from Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more.
Courtney Felle, press editor
is an MA/PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy and Disability Studies. They are interested in narratives of (un)diagnosis, craftivism via DisCrochet, large mugs of tea, ultra-specific Spotify playlists, and terrible reality TV. You can find their writing in Electric Literature, A Velvet Giant, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, among other publications.
Hajjar Baban, journal editor
is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. She has poems appearing in The Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Sundog Lit. Her first book of poems, Low Flying Planes, was selected by Jake Skeets for the National Poetry Series and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2026.
Yvanna Vien Tica, journal editor
is a hearing-impaired Filipina writer who grew up in Manila and near Chicago. Her work has appeared in POETRY, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah, among others. She tweets @yvannavien, and, in her spare time, she can be found thanking God for another day.
Mia Arias Tsang, interview correspondent
is a writer based in New York City. Her work explores themes of queer desire, intimacy, and disconnect. Her first essay collection, Fragments of Wasted Devotion, is out now with Quilted Press. She lives in Queens with her cat, Peanut, and is working on a novel.