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Meet The Flock

  • Lexi Rosen (she/her) is a white woman with long brown hair and blue eyes. She has colorful bracelets and pink painted nails. She is leaning onto one hand, smiling.

    Lexi Rosen

    Editor-in-Chief
    Poetry Editor
    Co-Founder

  • Parker Dean (he/him) is a white man with dark hair and glasses. This photo is in black and white. Parker is smiling. The background is dappled with gray and white.

    Parker Dean

    Managing Editor
    Creative Nonfiction Editor
    Co-Founder

Lexi Rosen

Lexi Rosen (she/her) only knows how to want. She studied Fiction at The University of Redlands and holds a dual-genre MFA (Fiction and Poetry) from The Vermont College of Fine Arts. She loves her people, eating cake with a spoon, and disco balls, and her work can be found or is forthcoming at Bullshit Lit!, HAD, and Fugue. She is also a recipient of the Jean Burden Poetry Prize Honorable Mention. Lexi writes from the Chicagoland area and planes, and is Co-Founder and Poetry EIC of Silly Goose Press.

Find her on Twitter @lexirosenwrites and Instagram @lex.rosen or at www.lexirosenwrites.com.

Parker Dean

Parker Dean (he/him) is a writer of many genres, focused on Queer identity and the many ways to express the self. He is, first and foremost, a lover of birds and his dear friends, but he also loves erotica, happy endings, and mixing metaphors. He received a Bachelors in Creative Writing and English Lit. from the University of Redlands and a Masters of Creative Writing and Poetics from UW Bothell. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Bullshit Lit!, Troublemaker Firestarter, Thirteen Bridges Review, and Clamor. 

Find him on Bluesky @parkerdeanwrites.bsky.social, on Instagram @parkerdean1999, or at www.parkerdeanwrites.com.

  • Rhiannon Fisher (she/her) is a white person with brown curly hair and dark blue eyes. She is wearing a green sweater. The background is off-white.

    Rhiannon Fisher

    Fiction Editor
    Co-Founder

  • Eric Enbom (he/they) is a white person with dark hair and classes. This photo is in black and white. Eric is looking stoically.

    Eric Enbom

    Art & Photography Editor
    Co-Founder

  • Ian Wuertz (he/him) is a white man with light brown hair. He has glasses and is wearing a baseball cap and jersey. He is holding a pink axolotl plushie.

    Ian Wuertz

    Managing Reader

  • Julia Shelley (she/her) is a white woman with light brown hair. She is wearing silver jewlery and a red blazer

    Julia Shelley

    Project Manager

  • Annelise Schoups (she/her) is a white woman with brown hair. She is wearing a black shirt. The background is white.

    Annelise Schoups

    Copyeditor

Annelise
Schoups

Annelise Schoups (she/her) is a multinational poet best known for laughing at her own jokes and writing about things that are mostly not funny. Her work appears in the 2023-24 San Diego Poetry Annual, where it earned Honorable Mention for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2023, as well as in Silly Goose Press Issue One, and december magazine, where it was selected as a semifinalist for the 2023 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize.

When she's not lurking NYT Cooking at home in California, you can find her wandering with her partner, Justin, or on Instagram @anneliseschoups.

Julia
Shelley

Julia Shelley (she/her) is joining Silly Goose Press as an Editorial Project Manager. She 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 boyfriend and his golden retriever, Steve). 

Find her on Instagram @julia.shelley or on LinkedIn.

Ian
Wuertz

Ian Wuertz (he/him) is a writer in Denver, Colorado. He studied Creative Writing at Seattle University, and earned his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2024. He first encountered geese at the park as a toddler, and first encountered the geese of SPG through his friendship with Lexi Rosen in grad school. His work can be found in Out There Literary Magazine and Silly Goose Press. When he’s not writing, he is coaching ice hockey, playing video games, watching old skateboard movies, or thinking about getting a cat. 

Find him on Instagram @ianwuertz.