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Meet the Flock
Feathered Friends
Lexi Rosen
Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Editor, Co-FounderLexi Rosen (she/her) is a queer Greek American writer from the Chicagoland Area. She writes about true things like kissing girls and reading coffee grounds and waning crescent moons. She writes about wanting things, too, and being scared of having them. She is afraid of geese.
Lexi studied Fiction at The University of Redlands and holds a dual genre MFA in Fiction and Poetry from The Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work can be found at Outskirts, Maudlin House, HAD, Past Ten, Bullshit Lit!, and Fugue.
Honk at her: IG @lex.rosen, others @lexirosenwrites, or at www.lexirosenwrites.com
Parker Dean
Managing Editor, Creative Nonfiction Editor, Co-FounderParker Dean (he/him) is a Trans and Queer poet and writer based in Seattle, WA. He holds a BA in Creative Writing and English Lit from the University of Redlands and an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. When not writing, he can be found scouring the Washington wilderness for birds of all kinds. His previous work can be found in Bullshit Lit!, Troublemaker Firestarter, Thirteen Bridges Review, and Outskirts.
Find him on Instagram @parkerdeanwrites, or at www.parkerdeanwrites.com.
Very Important Geese
E. Enbom
Art, Photography, Hybrid Editor, Co-Fiction
Editor, Co-FounderE. Enbom (he/they) writes about strange happenings and loves taking photos while in nature. They have a Bachelors in Creative Writing and one in Media & Visual Culture Studies from the University of Redlands. Born and raised just north of San Francisco, he now lives in Toronto where he works at a video game company and spends too much free time cycling. Their work has been featured in Udd3r. Find him on Instagram @ebom12 or at his greatly neglected website: www.eric-enbom.com
Genevieve Garibaldi
Genevieve Garibaldi (she/her) is a fiction writer based in Los Angeles, California and received her Bachelor’s in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of Redlands. Her dog—ehm, Supreme Ruler—Zuzu runs almost every aspect of her life, and likes it that way. When she’s not writing or obeying Zuzu’s every whim she can be found hunched over the potter’s wheel, working on early arthritis in her back. You can find her on Instagram @gengaribaldi
Co-Fiction Editor
Annelise Schoups
Copy EditorAnnelise Schoups (she/her) is a Chicana Belgian-American poet, essayist, and wannabe critic who laughs at her own jokes and writes about things that are mostly not funny. Her poetry appears in HAD, december, Silly Goose Press, collaborature, and the San Diego Poetry Annual; her prose in Hunger Mountain and Tupelo Quarterly. You can find her in San Diego, where she plans thru-hikes with her partner, or on Instagram, where it's less weird to follow her, @anneliseschoups.
Julia Shelley
Project ManagerJulia Shelley (she/her) works in marketing for an e-commerce software company, and thus her writing can primarily be found in company reports, story pitches in journalists’ inboxes, and the Hinge prompts of her dearest friends. She is a graduate of Villanova University, and lives in Chicago with the loves of her life (her fiancé and his golden retriever, Steve).
Find her on Instagram @julia.shelley or on LinkedIn.
Good Eggs
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Claire Chang
Web DesignerClaire Chang (she/her) is a sophomore in college currently studying Computer Science and Digital Art. She loves design and taking on creative endeavors of any kind, and she's super excited to be a part of the Silly Goose Press' Content and Social Media team! In her spare time, she likes to make music, develop (and play!) video games, look at cat photos, and visit cute cafes with interesting drinks.
Paloma Gomez
Social Media StrategistPaloma Gomez (they/them) is a rising junior at Georgetown University studying Women and Gender Studies and Government. They are originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and are passionate about social justice and promoting the arts at their college! They can be found around DC making espresso, reading feminist literature, or committing way too hard to the bit.
Cody Tieman
Cody Tieman (they/them) is a queer poet interested in the complexities of gender performance and dreams. They spend their free time wandering in the woods, reading graphic novels, and crocheting little critters. Oh, and they might be a little psychic.
Editorial Operations Assistant
Angelica Urquizo
Angelica Urquizo (she/her) is a poet and collage artist who seeks magic in the mundane. She finds inspiration from the natural world, mythology, shadow work, and the overall human experience. She has publications in Brigid’s Gate Press, Genrepunk, and Suburban Witchcraft, among others. You can find her on a rainy day reading or watching the hummingbirds from her porch. To discover more about her work, find her on instagram @acraftyname
Community Engagement Assistant
Nell Wilks
Brand DesignerNell Wilks (she/her) is working towards her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies, while pursuing a minor in Writing. Her work has been featured in Undeclared, a chapbook she handmade, with help from her university’s Creative Collective. She likes listening to sad music and becoming best friends with every dog she sees!
Liana Yadav
Born and raised in Delhi, Liana (she/her) has always loved to express herself through a combination of words and designs that fit together like a puzzle. Her debut fiction novel Rama & the Palace of Evil was published on her 18th birthday and she has not stopped writing since. Her features have appeared in local zines and newspapers, along with her own newsletter called slightly ajar door. You'll mostly catch Liana adding to her ever-growing lists of books, restaurants, and playlists (that she'd love to share with you) and/or taking an introspective walk as soon as the sun peeks out. Recently graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University, Liana now works at a marketing agency. You can reach her on Instagram at liana_yadav!
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Chloe Ackerman
Poetry ReaderChloe Ackerman (she/her) lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her cat, Miss Farrah Pawcett. Chloe has been published in Silly Goose Press, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Barstow & Grand.
Taylor V. Card
Fiction ReaderTaylor V. Card (she/her) holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and haunts her home in Michigan, making trending coffee beverages, obsessing over her cat, and wearing blue. Her fiction has been published by Digging Through the Fat, Paranoid Tree, Milk Candy Review and Red Noise Collective, among others. Besides writing, Taylor enjoys making ceramic animal sculptures - you can see a few at taylorvcard.com, and also find her @pinlie on Instagram.
Melissa LaCross
Melissa LaCross (she/her) is a poet and writer living in Charlotte, North Carolina. A native Southerner, she obsesses about the haunted land of the South as well as navigating gender issues in rural subcultures. She has a masters of fine arts in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and was a finalist for the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize at december magazine. You can find her on Instagram or on the greenway with her pup and family.
Poetry Reader
Kelley Lee
Kelley (she/her) managed to survive getting an MFA so now she is burying herself in all things readable. Send her book recs, she likes it. But be warned, she has made being Minnesotan her entire personality (if you need proof just ask her to say bag). The one and not the only (a quick internet search will find you quite a few)... Kelley Lee. (Wildleekelley on instagram/threads)
Poetry & Fiction Reader
Georgia Lowe
Fiction ReaderGeorgia Lowe (she/her) is a writer, a mother, a Brooklynite, a Midwest native, and an MFA student in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is working on her debut novel.
Emma McVeigh
Creative Nonfiction ReaderEmma McVeigh (she/her) is a poet, performer, and multi-media artist based on occupied Duwamish land in Seattle, Washington. Her work has been published in Silly Goose Press, Clamor, Bluebird Anthology, Ancient Technologies Newsletter, and by The Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center (a conceptual art project). Her debut chapbook, Folly, was published by Milk & Cake Press in December, 2025. She co-curates the semi-regular and very silly poetry series, “A House Reading,” in the homes of Seattle-area poets and her favorite comfort food is tuna casserole.
Mary Simmons
Mary Simmons (she/her) is a queer poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of Mother, Daughter, Augur (June Road Press). She earned her MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she also served as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. She has work in or forthcoming from The Baltimore Review, Phoebe, ONE ART, trampset, Moon City Review, Midwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her cat, Suki, at the edge of the woods.
Poetry Reader
Ian Wuertz
Fiction ReaderIan Wuertz (he/him) is a writer and teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. When he’s not writing, he’s playing video games, getting tattoos, or getting way too into Thursday Night Bowling League.
Geese Emeritus
Rhiannon Fisher
Fiction & Minis Editor Emeritus, Co-FounderRhiannon Fisher (she/her) is a writer of many genres, though her main loves are fantasy, historical fiction, and mythology. She is a collector of random knowledge (just ask about that submersible) and loves anything mysterious, spooky, or queer. She has a BA in Public Policy and Creative Writing from the University of Redlands, and received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2022. You can usually find her binge reading/watching at 3 am, training high wire classes for the Great Y Circus, or writing letters by candlelight. You can find her work in the From Arthur’s Seat 2022 Anthology and on AO3 (no, she will not tell you her username).
Find her on the website formerly known as Twitter @rhithewriter6, Instagram @rhi.the.writer, and Tik Tok @rhi.the.writer.
Website: rhiannonfisherwrites.com