Masthead
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 (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 EditorGenevieve Garibaldi
Rhiannon Fisher
Rhiannon 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
Minis Editor, Co-Founder
Annelise Schoups
Annelise 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.
Copy EditorJulia Shelley
Julia 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.
Project ManagerGood Eggs
Say hello to our Readers!
Chloe Ackerman
Chloe 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.
Poetry Reader
Taylor V. Card
Taylor 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.
Fiction Reader
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 ReaderMelissa LaCross
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 ReaderKelley Lee
Georgia Lowe
Georgia 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.
Fiction Reader
Emma McVeigh
Emma 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.
Creative Nonfiction Reader
Poetry ReaderMary 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.
Fiction ReaderIan Wuertz
Ian 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.