Editor: Leslie Pietrzyk’s collection of linked stories set in DC, Admit This to No One, was published in 2021 by Unnamed Press. Her first collection of stories, This Angel on My Chest, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Short fiction and essays have appeared in, among others, Ploughshares, Story Magazine, Hudson Review, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Sun, Cincinnati Review, and Washington Post Magazine. Awards include a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is a core member of the Converse University low-residency MFA program, teaching fiction and creative nonfiction.

Nonfiction Editor: Laura Platas Scott is a Cuban American writer whose work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine and Zizzle Literary. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Converse University where she teaches English composition. She is a creative writing teaching artist for the Arts Reaching Elementary and Middle School Students (ARMES) program in Greenville, SC, and is a Senior Writer for Story Terrace. She is represented by Melissa Edwards of Stonesong Literary.

Poetry Editor: Zorina Exie Frey is an essayist, screenwriter, and spoken word artist working as a publishing content writer and digital designer. She is a Pushcart nominee whose writings are featured in Glassworks Magazine, Shondaland, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now and Limpwrist Magazine. Zorina also holds an MFA in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction from Converse University.

Director of the Converse Low-Res MFA program: Rick Mulkey is the author of five poetry collections including: Toward Any Darkness, Before the Age of Reason, Bluefield Breakdown, and Greatest Hits: 1994-2004. His latest collection is Ravenous, New & Selected Poems, published by Serving House Press.