We come from opposite directions, North and South, East and West, a crosshatch of geographic lines that have intersected in New York City.
Founding Editors
Sylvie Bertrand is a writer living in Brooklyn. A native French speaker, she was born and grew up in Montreal. Her stories and poems have appeared in Peregrine Journal, Epiphany, Cleaver Magazine, december, and other journals. She was nominated for the 2017 PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and received a Pushcart Special Mention in 2018. While translating Mexican telenovelas, she earned an MA in Anthropology from Princeton University. She currently teaches Memoir at The Writers Studio in NYC. svbertrand.com
Christopher X. Shade is the author of the novel The Good Mother of Marseille (2019), and a book of poems Shield the Joyous (2020) about the loss of loved ones to the disease of addiction.
He taught prose and poetry writing at The Writers Studio in New York City’s West Village. His stories, poems, and book reviews have been widely published, and he has won story awards and received Pushcart nominations. Raised in the South, he now lives in New York City. christopherxshade.com
Christopher’s books are now also available in our Shop.
Editor-in-Chief
Amy Dupcak is the author of Dust, Short Stories (2016), and co-editor of Words After Dark (2020), an anthology of prose and poetry. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Vol 1. Brooklyn, Sonora Review, Entropy, Phoebe, Hypertext, and Bookanista, among other journals, while her poetry has appeared in Pangyrus, Wild Roof, Gramercy Review, Passengers, District Lit, American Writers Review, etc. She earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School and she’s a longtime creative and essay writing instructor at Writopia Lab, primarily working with teens. She also works with underserved youth as a Teaching Artist and Publications Associate for 826NYC, and works independently with writers of all ages. www.amydupcak.com
Amy’s book Dust, Short Stories is now also available in our Shop.
Senior Editor
Carrie Schneider, author of American Yoga (Barnes & Noble Books) and Yoga Within (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), has written for Interview, Media, Self, and Yoga Journal magazines. Her editing career spanned from Rolling Stone Press to Playgirl to The New York Times Magazine, and comprises book doctoring for titles including Michael Gross’s My Generation (HarperCollins). Carrie lives in New York, where she teaches yoga and is at work on her first novel. carrieyoga.com
Translation Editors
George Franklin’s most recent poetry collections are Remote Cities (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023), and a dual language collaboration with Colombian poet Ximena Gómez, Conversaciones sobre agua/Conversations About Water (Katakana Editores, 2023). A chapbook, What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. He is the co-translator of Ms. Gómez’s poetry collection Último día / Last Day. His co-translations with Ms. Gómez have appeared in various journals, including World Literature Today, Cultural Daily, Cagibi, Interim, and Nashville Review. He practices law in Miami, teaches writing workshops in Florida prisons, and is the first prize winner of the 2023 W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize. www.gsfranklin.com.
Ximena Gómez is the author of Habitación con moscas and Cuando llegue la sequía (both Ediciones Torremozas), the collection Último día / Last Day, and a joint collection with George Franklin, Conversaciones sobre agua/Conversations About Water (both Katakana Editores). Her poetry and translations have appeared in various journals in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Germany. She translated into Spanish Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming and Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s One for the Murphys (both Penguin Random House Group), the dual-language poetry collection Among the Ruins / Entre las ruinas by George Franklin (Katakana Editores) and she was a contributing translator for 32 Poems/32 Poemas by Hyam Plutzik (Suburbano Ediciones). She was also a finalist for the Best of the Net.
Poetry Editor
Jeanne-Marie Osterman is from the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Who Killed Marta Ugarte? (Broadstone Books), Shellback (Paloma Press), There’s a Hum (Finishing Line Press), and All Animals Want the Same Things, winner of the Slipstream Press Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has appeared in Borderlands, New Ohio Review, Cathexis Northwest, and other journals. She has received three Pushcart nominations, and in 2018 she was a finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Jeanne-Marie holds an MA in linguistics from San Francisco State and lives in New York City. www.ostermanpoetry.com
Readers
Aleta Burchyski, Beatriz Stewart, Karen Laws, Mickey Greaves, Scott Hunter, Marissa Quenqua.
Artwork Contributors
Adam Courtney, Amy Dupcak, David Olimpio, Jodie Herrera, Joel Remland, John Michael Swartz, Ona Tzar, Sai Mokhtari.
Staff contributors:
Nadia Belalia is a multi-media artist, originally from France, based in New York City. More…
Olga Breydo is a New York City-based author with a passion for photography and travel. More…
Callie Danae Hirsch is a painter and photographer from the United States, based in New York City. More…
Kathleen Loe is a multi-media artist and independent writer, living in Hudson, NY. More…
Jeffrey Chapman is a photographer whose images have been shown at the Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery, the Schiffman Butterfield Gallery @Arcstages, and the Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. More…
Stéphane Cocke is a multi-faceted artist who has been at the heart of Montreal’s cultural life over the past 20 years. More…
Neal Snidow writes and photographs in Magalia, CA. His photos have appeared in After Ashes and Catamaran. His memoir with photographs Vista Del Mar was published by Counterpoint Press in 2016. More…
Stefan Hengst is an award-winning designer and photographer, originally from the Netherlands, and now in New York City. More…
