Masthead

Editor-in-Chief/Founder

Kristen Simental

Fiction Editor
Andy Smith

Poetry Editor

K.D. Harryman

Associate Editor (The Weekly)

Luke Tynan

Editor-at-Large

Mina Manchester

Current and Former
Readers & Contributors

Ajay Sawant

READER - Ajay Sawant currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Globalage Poetry. He is a student from Pune of Maharashtra, India simultaneously pursuing medical and B.A Hons. in English. He is an art activist and public speaker. His recent poems appear in Detester Magazine, Vayavya, America’s Art & Understanding Magazine and forthcoming in Xavier Review, The Virgin Island's - The Carrabian Writer and Hawai`i Pacific Review

Ajay can be reached on
Instagram: [www.instagram.com/ajaycycles](http://www.instagram.com/ajaycycles)
LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-sawant-222244193/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-sawant-222244193/)

Lauren Christiansen

Lauren Christiansen

READER - Lauren Christiansen is a writer and editor from New England who holds an MPhil in American literature from the University of Cambridge. In any spare time, Lauren is the writer, director, actor, editor, court jester and stage hand of Keats-Free Zone, a newsletter with no rhyme or reason at all. Lauren can be found at laurenc3.wordpress.com.

Ash Jones

INTERN - Ash Jones is an aspiring writer from New Jersey. They are currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation at Fairleigh Dickinson University. In their free time, the enjoy a good hike with their dog and historybounding. One day, Ash hopes to make a career out of publishing and their translations. Nothing is more inspiring to them than bringing the beauty of one language into another.

Russ Rubin

GUEST ART DIRECTOR - Russ Rubin is a painter, writer, and former band manager from the exotic woods of New Jersey.

Jenny Kessler

Jenny is an illustrator, designer, and lettering artist working in New York and Philadelphia. She creates surface designs, handlettered illustrations, and visual branding for theater companies, art galleries, game designers and the like. In her work, she has a fondness for mid-century stylings, bold lettering, and bright color palettes, influenced by a love of printmaking and vintage imagery. She received her MA in Illustration from Maryland Institute College Of Art. To see more of her work, visit her site.

Jenny created the Seattle to LA skyline in our footer.

Art Contributors for Issue Two

Adam Hacker for A process of cleaning out & Poem for some sort of security, Be Mine and Prophecy (Judgement Day)
Adam Ward for Epicaricacy
Alex Kovacs for Nicer Than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too
Lois Emma Harkin for Redacted Love Letter, May 31st and No Cure
Loren Erdrich for But They'd Never Believe Me and Poky’s Levitating Grandmother
Na Liu for I (Palm Tree) Los Angeles and Like Every Other Vice
Nevil Jackson for God Save the Forest
Peter Frederiksen for Take Me Out and Professional Lola
Russ Rubin for More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person & Quars Poetica and John in Concord

Past Editors

Cass Garison, Poetry Editor (Issues 1 & 2 )

Mina Manchester, Fiction Editor (Issue 2)