Editorial

Kristen Simental

Cass Garison

Mina Manchester

Mina Manchester

FICTION EDITOR - Mina Manchester is an MFA candidate at Sewanee. Before coming to Five South she was an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine for six years. Mina’s work has been published in HuffPost, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, and Inscape. Her short story “Opening Day” was a Finalist for the 2020 Pinch Literary Award, and her short story “Fight or Flight” was a Finalist for Cutthroat’s Rick DiMarinis Short Story Award. She was nominated for the UCLA James Kirkwood Award in Creative Writing. Mina has attended the Kenyon Review Writing Workshop, The Writer’s Hotel, where she was also a TA in 2020, and Narrative’s Art of the Story Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Readers & Contributors

Luke Tynan

READER - A qualified Optical Mechanic by trade, budding 'Twitcher', and aspiring writer; Luke enjoys a good book, great coffee, and is drawn to things the colour orange.

He loves basketball and can often be found dribbling.

Currently reading for Five South - an online literary journal - Luke enjoys the delivery of strong literary writing, flash fiction, short bread biscuits and baked goods - he aspires to be paid to read and write, one day.

Luke wears hats, and makes a conscientious effort to chew his food properly.

He loves work written with good humour, sharp prose and writing that makes you "sit up and listen."

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

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

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