Dominique Ahkong, Editor & Designer
Dominique Ahkong was born to Mauritian parents in outer London and grew up in Singapore. She holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MPS in interactive media from Tisch School of the Arts and has received grants and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Center for Book Arts in NYC, and Singapore’s National Arts Council. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cherry Tree, The McNeese Review, South Carolina Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. More: dominiqueahkong.com
Johnny Cordova, Editor
Having published regularly in small press journals from 1995 to 2004, Johnny Cordova returned to the poetry scene in 2021 after spending ten years in Southeast Asia. Since then, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Moon City Review, Salt Hill Journal, New York Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Johnny is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Prescott College, where he mostly studied the short story, which has translated to a love for strong narrative verse. His website is johnnycordova.com
Claire Zhou, JUNIOR EDITOR
Claire Zhou is a student currently residing in Suzhou, China. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Chestnut Review, DIALOGIST, Notre Dame Review, Moon City Review, Gulf Coast, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Shō Poetry Journal. Her fiction is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal. A 2024 finalist for Tinderbox’s Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s Rising Poet Prize, her work has also been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, Hollins University, the Adroit Prizes, and more. She is the founder of Words Beyond Bars, a literary journal for those affected by incarceration.