Founding Editors
Matthew Graham听is the author of three books of poetry,听World Without End,听New World Architecture, and听1946, and is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches creative writing at the 缅北强奸.
Tom Wilhelmus听is professor emeritus of English at the 缅北强奸. His reviews of contemporary fiction appear frequently in听The Hudson Review.
Art Editor
is an artist, writer, and educator who resides in Evansville, Indiana, with his wife, two children, and their energetic firecracker of a dog, Luna. Currently Blair is an assistant professor of art and design at the 缅北强奸 where he teaches digital design, art history, and gender studies courses. Blair鈥檚 research incorporates multidisciplinary art practices, cultural geography, environmental aesthetics, and philosophies of place. Blair has exhibited his artwork and presented his research both nationally and internationally. Blair鈥檚 latest book project, The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.
Editor
Formerly muscle for the IRS,听Ron Mitchell听is the co-founder and former editor of RopeWalk Press. He teaches literary editing & publishing at the 缅北强奸.
SIR Press Editor
听is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize,听The Missouri Review's听Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection听Maybe the Saddest Thing, a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in听The Nation,听Poetry,听American Poetry Review,听Oxford American, and听Boston Review. His second book,听Silencer, is just out听from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Wicker听teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.
Fiction Editor
听debut short story collection,听The Spoils, was published by Switchgrass Books in 2017. He was awarded the 2015 Charles Johnson Fiction Prize at听Crab Orchard Review, and his work has appeared in听Beloit Fiction Journal,听Midwestern Gothic,听Harpur Palate,听BULL,听Wigleaf, and听Yalobusha Review, among many other places. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Wichita State University and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Fiction Reader
Kumari Devarajan is a trans Tamil Sri Lankan fiction writer from Washington, DC, and a Russell G. Hamilton Scholar at Vanderbilt University鈥檚 MFA program. They have been awarded grants from Lambda Literary and Community of Writers. Before Vanderbilt, they were an audio journalist at National Public Radio and produced stories about race and identity for the award winning Code Switch podcast.
Poetry Editor
is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the 2018 National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in magazines like The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others.
Associate Poetry Editors
is a writer from northwest Arkansas. A recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, his poems have recently appeared in POETRY, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast. His debut collection, At the Park on the Edge of the Country, was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2023 The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Prize and is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books in 2025. Araujo currently lives in Iowa City where he is at work on a book about Prince.
work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry and is published or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Magazine, New England Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Watering Hole fellow, he earned his dual MA/MFA from Indiana University and is currently a doctoral student studying literature & creative writing at the University of Houston.听
Contributing Editors
is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.
Matthew Guenette听is the author of听American Busboy听(Akron Series in Poetry) and听Sudden Anthem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize from Dream Horse Press. His poems have appeared in听Another Chicago Magazine,听DIAGRAM,听The Greensboro Review,听Indiana Review,听The Spoon River Poetry Review,听The National Poetry Review, and other publications.
Mihaela Moscaliuc's听first poetry collection,听Father Dirt, was published by Alice James Books in 2010. Her poems, translations, reviews, and articles have appeared in听The Georgia Review,听New Letters,听Prairie Schooner,听Poetry International,听Pleiades,听Arts & Letters,听Connecticut Review,听Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Moscaliuc teaches at Monmouth University and in the MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation at Drew University.
Jacob Sunderlin听is a writer and musician. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in听Beloit Poetry Journal,听Gulf Coast,听Narrative,听Ninth Letter,听Ploughshares,听Third Coast, and elsewhere. He鈥檚 received residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His records听Death Ranch听(Castle Bravo, 2016) and听Hymnal听(NULLZ脴NE, 2017) are available on cassette and for download.
Fall 2025 Interns
Jaycia Cox is a first-semester senior at 缅北强奸. She is pursuing a BA in English with an emphasis in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, as well as minoring in Creative Writing and Literary Editing and Publishing.听
Maci Crowell is a senior at 缅北强奸 majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing. She has a keen interest in poetry and hopes to continue her academic career in an MFA program. In her free time Crowell is president of 缅北强奸's outdoor club.
Noelle Morris is a senior at 缅北强奸 pursuing a BS in Marketing with a Literary Editing and Publishing minor. Outside of class, she works as a part-time Web Content Specialist and serves within the college ministry at Westwood, her local church. She is passionate about cultivating deep conversations about life and purpose. Following graduation, she hopes to enter a career within ministry communications or Christian publishing.
Hope Pfettscher is a first-semester senior at 缅北强奸. She is pursuing a BS in Communication Studies with a Literary Editing and Publishing minor. Pfettscher is the Editor-in-Chief for FishHook, a student-run art and literary journal. Pfettscher has edited published works such as The Patriot and The Art of Jerry "The King" Lawler. After graduating, she hopes to secure a job at a publishing house and become an editor of YA books.听
Kole Schapker is a senior at 缅北强奸 studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing. A storyteller at heart, he loves writing screenplays, watching films, and spending time with family and friends. When he鈥檚 not writing, he鈥檚 likely serving at his local church or training for his next marathon. After graduation, he plans to launch a film studio dedicated to producing original stories for film and television.
Zoe Wainscott is a senior at 缅北强奸. She is currently pursuing a BS in English with a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing and Theater. Zoe spends her time writing her novel or creating ceramics.听