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DIRECTOR & EDITOR
Caryl Pagel is the author of three books of poetry: Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron, 2022), Twice Told (University of Akron Press), and Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press), as well as a collection of essays, Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She’s a publisher and editor at Rescue Press and teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & EDITOR
Hilary Plum is the author of several books including the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose; Hole Studies, an essay collection from Fonograf Editions; and a volume of poetry, Excisions, from Black Lawrence. She was the recipient of the GLCA New Writers Award for the work of nonfiction Watchfires. She teaches fiction, nonfiction, and editing & publishing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA Program. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent work has appeared in Granta, College Literature, American Poetry Review, Fence, and elsewhere.


MANAGING EDITOR
Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in jubilat, Territory, Poetry Northwest, Always Crashing, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the NEOMFA and teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He is the managing editor at the CSU Poetry Center and editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Review of Books.

ANISFIELD-WOLF FELLOW IN WRITING & PUBLISHING
Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in VQR, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has an MFA in prose from the University of Notre Dame and studies English in the PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania. His memoir Sink won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories, Leviathan Beach, among other oddities.

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Marlowe Jones is a writer and NEOMFA poetry candidate from Vermillion, Ohio. He received his BA in History at Heidelberg University, and his work has been published in Green Blotter, Sink Hollow, and The Courtship of Winds.





EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Joey Rooney is a writer primarily of fiction, but also of poetry and creative nonfiction, and a second-year candidate in the NEOMFA Program. Born and raised on the west side of Cleveland, he received his MA in English from Case Western Reserve University and his MA in Theology and Religious Studies from John Carroll University.


EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Kristen Tetzmann (née Tetzlaff) is a poet and painter from Wisconsin. She received her BA in Art Therapy and Creative Writing from Mount Mary University. She is a first-year poetry candidate in the NEOMFA program. Her work has appeared in Bodega Magazine, Furrow, Respect Your Mother, and elsewhere. She knows how to say “watermelon” in twenty-six languages.