Topaz Winters, founder & editor-in-chief
is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022, winner of the Button Poetry Short Form Contest & a LitBowl Best Poetry Book of 2022) & Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024, finalist in the Broken River & Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prizes). Her 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.
Danie Shokoohi, managing editor
is a Paris-based writer and 2020 graduate of the UW-Madison MFA. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Puritan, Glass: a Journal of Poetry, the American Journal of Poetry, New Ohio Review, Lake Effect, The Mississippi Review, The Cincinnati Review, and others. She is a devoted listener of pod-dramas, an avid tarot reader, and the queen of making too many playlists. Her debut novel, Glass Girls, is coming out June 2025 with Gillian Flynn Books.
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 Brevity, Salt Hill Journal, and The Rumpus. Currently, they live in Chicago with their partner and a cat named Pretzel.
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 SICK Magazine, Monstering Magazine, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, among other publications.
Saty Mukherjee, journal editor
is an emerging copyeditor and writer born in India but raised in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey. They currently work as a reader for Wallstrait, Chestnut Review, and The Common. They take inspiration from many places, ranging from the quiet aisles of a grocery store, the sprawling landscapes of the video games they play, and the powerful stories in the books they read. On the days they aren’t working, they can often be found immersed in needlework, lost in their favorite game, or reading by the warm glow of a lamp clamped to their windowsill.
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.