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EDITOR
Emma Ensley

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Liam Danzis (Creative Nonfiction)
Brit Washburn (Criticism & Interviews)
Rodney Gomez (Poetry)

ADVISORY EDITORS
Wiley Cash
Tessa Fontaine
Luke Hankins
Halle Hill

BIOS
Emma Ensley is the author of the story collection The Computer Room (Loblolly Press, 2025). Her stories have appeared in Joyland, XRAY Literary Magazine, Y2K Quarterly, and other venues. A graphic designer and Brand Manager for Wicked Weed Brewing, she grew up in North Georgia and on the internet, and considers both places equally influential to her work.

Liam Danzis holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Asheville, where they work with The Great Smokies Writing Program to serve writers across Western North Carolina. A “genre-fluid” writer, their work includes an essay chapbook, The Heretic’s Bestiary (Bull City Press, 2024), and work published in Kelp Journal, Best Spiritual Literature 2025, and Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Writers on God (forthcoming). Danzis is also a certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator through Asheville-based narrative arts collective Story Parlor, and they serve on the board of The North Carolina Writers’ Network.

Brit Washburn is the author of the essay collection Homing In: Attempts on a Life of Poetry and Purpose (Alexandria Quarterly Press, 2023) and the poetry collections Notwithstanding (2019) and What Is Given (2025), both from Wet Cement Press. She teaches in The Great Smokies Writing Program and co-curates the Juniper Bends reading series. Recently, her work has appeared in Only Poems, Asheville Poetry Review, and the anthology Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Floods.

Rodney Gomez is the author of Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of The Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for best book of poetry from The Texas Institute of Letters and The Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, and the visual poetry collection Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020). He is a recipient of fellowships and grants from The Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Yale Mellon Arts & Practitioner Program, and The De Groot Foundation. He serves as advisory editor for FlowerSong Press, where he founded The Bougainvillea Prize to honor working class poets or books for/about the working class. His forthcoming poetry collections are Urban Precarious (Northwestern University Press, 2028) and Weeping (contract pending).