Emily Grace
Editor in Chief
Emily Grace (Issue 18.2-) is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Catholic University of America. Her research focuses on the intersections between modernist literature and music in the work of James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. She also works as a Professorial Lecturer in University Writing at George Washington University. In the past, she has worked as a poetry editor and content manager for The Loch Raven Review, and an assistant editor for Brick House Books, a Baltimore-based publishing house. Her creative work has appeared in such venues as Ghost City Press and Bartleby, among others.
Cameron Clark
Poetry Editor
Cameron Clark (Issue 16.1–) Cameron Clark is a writer from the United Kingdom. He has had poems published in, or forthcoming from, Image Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbox Manifold, New Verse Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Journal, the Ekphrastic Review, and Agenda Magazine, among others. He blogs at Minor Tiresias on Substack, and is the Co-host for poetry and culture podcast SLEERICKETS.
Elijah Perseus Blumov
Contributing Translations Editor
Elijah Perseus Blumov (Issue 18.2–) is a poet, critic, and host of the poetry analysis podcast, Versecraft. His writing has been published in venues such as Image Journal, Marginalia Review of Books, Birmingham Poetry Review, and The Alabama Literary Review, among others. He holds a Master’s degree in poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is an enthusiast of France, cats, Greek tragedy, chili peppers, Heavy Metal, Art Deco, hiking, the sea, and many other things. He lives in Chicago.
Ethan McGuire
Contributing Editor
Ethan McGuire (Issue 18.2–) Ethan McGuire is a writer and computer scientist whose essays, poems, reviews, short stories, song lyrics, and translations have been published in Blue Unicorn, Literary Matters, The New Verse News, The South Wales Evening Post, and other publications. He is also an editor at New Verse Review and the author of a chapbook of art and poetry, Songs for Christmas, and a book of poems, Apocalypse Dance. Ethan grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, spent his young adulthood on the beaches of Pensacola, Florida, and is now settled in Fort Wayne, Indiana with his wife and children.
Jeffrey Peters
Production Editor
Jeffrey Peters (Issue 9.1–) is a teacher, researcher, and writer. He has his PhD in English Language and Literature from Catholic University of America, an Master’s in Reading and a Master’s in Teaching from Towson University, and a Master’s in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Annapolis. He wrote a column for Tribune publications for 13 years and has articles in many journals, websites, and newspapers about literature, religion, and social issues. He has also edited and published websites, journals, and encyclopedias with a focus on literature. He lives in Baltimore, MD.
Previous Masthead:
Ryan Wilson, Editor-in-Chief (Issue 9.1-17.1), Editor Emeritus (Issue 17.2-18.1)
Matthew Buckley Smith, Associate Editor (Issue 11.1-17.1), Poetry Editor (Issue 17.2-18.1)
Chris Childers, Translations Editor (Issue 13.2–)
Caitlin Doyle, Interviews Editor (Issue 13.2–18.1)
Armen Davoudian, Poetry Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Mike Mattison, ‘Hot Rocks’ Feature Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Joanna Pearson, Fiction Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Ernest Suarez, ‘Hot Rocks’ Feature Editor (Issue 13.2-17.1)
Raphael Krut-Landau, Web Editor (Issue 15.3-17.1)
Alexis Sears, Contributing Editor (Issue 16.2–)
John Matthew Steinhafel, Editor-in-Chief (Issue 17.2–18.1)