Beth
Editor-in-Chief
Beth (she/her) received her MFA in Creative Writing and Pedagogy from Miami University in Ohio. Her work has appeared in Quarter After Eight, Midwestern Gothic, and Rivet Journal. She is a recipient of the 2018 Jordan-Goodman Prize in Fiction, and was nominated for the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, as well as the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Her work has been supported by the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Hambidge Center residences, as well as the Tin House Workshop and New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her website can be found at bethweeks.com.
Beth’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Twittering Birds Never Fly by Kou Yoneda, wolves, wolfboys, Breaking Bad, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, MXTX novels and their adaptations, Baby Driver, Star Wars, Painter of the Night by Byeonduck, disability studies, 19 Days by Old Xian, most Disney movies but specifically Frozen, feral girls and monstrous women, monstrous girls and feral women, Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, narratology, redemption arcs, recovery arcs, forgiveness arcs, Lawrence of Arabia, autistic and/or asexual characters, Shakespeare, the Alien franchise, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, loyalty kink, competency kink, Genshin Impact
Amber
Managing Editor
Amber (she/her) received her BA in English in 2019 and her short fiction has been featured in several small presses. Her writing tends to center around fun things like moral ambiguity, apocalyptic scenarios, and/or “unhealthy” relationship dynamics; her aesthetic has been described as “horny true crime,” which made her laugh very hard. Ultimately, Amber is passionate about creating stories and characters that come from the heart, and she wants to help others do the same. Her only social media is @valkyrhys on Tumblr.
Amber’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: her dog, age gap relationships, chocolate, sunny days, size kink, long runs to the water, Lolita (Nabokov), found family, overprotectiveness, The Bronze Horseman series (Simons), homoerotic female friendships, feral girls, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Greenwood), dead doves, skinned knees, swords & other sharp objects, Star Wars, farm life, baby pink, podcasts (especially ones by Phoebe Judge), ride or die relationships, everything written by Janet Inglis, religious cults, sleepy animals, strawberry lemonade, the intimacy of nonsexual bathing, back rubs, rainbow sprinkles
Anna
Art Director
Anna (she/her) is a graphic designer. She is passionate about the area where visuals and language intersect, and the narratives we tell ourselves about both.
Anna’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: Gillian Flynn protagonists, Mothman, homoerotic female friendships, We Need to Talk About Kevin, vampires, sisters, biblical angels, genfic, bisexuality, autumn candles, Hemlock Grove, negging Aaron Sorkin, polyhedral dice, Vulf Mono, Scott McCall, femdom, Let Your Dad Die Energy Drink, reluctant soulmates, Friday Night Lights, Shirley Jackson, evangelical deconstruction, whatever Venom and Eddie have going on, hour-long video essays, Pride and Prejudice (2005), magical mundanity, and cold coffee.
Hannah
Fiction Editor
Hannah’s (she/her) brain was unfortunately ruined when she read Lolita at sixteen and she has never recovered. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she works in nonprofit administration, reading AO3 on her Pomodoro breaks. She has been writing since she was ten, starting with Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction and found her way to emotionally devastating short stories, which seems to be her genre of choice.
Hannah’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mad Men, The Leftovers, Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Kristeva, emotional neglect, codependency and other toxic relationship dynamics, mean teenage girls, angst especially when it is also sexy, Luster by Raven Leilani, dysfunctional childhood best friends, hot anime boys, Lauren Groff, Succession, Laura van den Berg, Kelly Link, Ottessa Moshfegh, Shiva Baby, otome games, Netflix’s Dark and time travel in general, the red string of fate, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Eren Jaeger’s long hair era.