Editor in Chief: Brent Johnson

Senior Genre Editors:

Portrait of senior editor, Jung Hae Chae

Jung Hae Chae is the author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, POJANGMACHA PEOPLE, winner of the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Previously, she won the 2021 Crazyhorse Prize in Nonfiction and the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares, and her writing can be found in AGNI, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), a 2019 Pushcart Prize in nonfiction, and the Best American Essays 2022. She has received support from  the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, among others.
 
 

Désirée Zamorano is the author of the highly acclaimed literary novel, The Amado Women, which will be re-released in 2025.  An award-winning and Pushcart prize nominee short story writer her work is often an exploration of issues of invisibility, injustice or inequity. A selection of her writing can be found in Catapult, Cultural Weekly, The Kenyon Review Online and Akashic’s South Central Noir. “Caperucita Roja” was chosen as a distinguished short story in Best of American Mystery and Suspense, 2022.  Her novel Dispossessed is forthcoming from RIZE Press, fall 2024 while the University of Nevada Press will be publishing her collection of short stories spring, 2026.
 
Assistant Executive Editor: Liz Bradley

Managing Editors: Leilani Esperanza and Ashley Strobel

Layout Editors: Emma Friese and Emma Peterson