Editor-in-Chief: Joy David (they/them)
Joy David is a Ukrainian-American writer living in Cleveland, Ohio, where they are a geneticist in a lab studying diabetes and rare pediatric endocrine disorders. In their spare time they serve as Chief Poetry Critic for the Cleveland Review of Books and edit for Flypaper. Their debut chapbook Hibernation Highway was released in 2020 by Madhouse Press. Individual pieces by J. can be found in The Harvard Review, Colorado Review, 68 to 05, Salt Hill, Muzzle, Redivider, Passages North, and elsewhere.
Poetry Editor: Noor Hindi (she/her)
Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Hobart, and Jubilat. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, and Adroit Journal. She is a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow. Follow her on Twitter @MyNrhindi. Visit her website at noorhindi.com.
Prose Editor: Matt Mitchell (he/him)
Matt Mitchell is an intersex chump getting pummeled by his own carbon footprint in Columbus, Ohio. His work is currently, or soon will be, sleeping on the pull-out couches of Hobart Pulp, The Missouri Review, Bat City Review, The Boiler, and others. He wrote The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and tweets @matt_mitchell48.
Music Editor: Ryleigh Wann (she/her)
Ryleigh Wann is a Michigander earning her MFA from UNC Wilmington, where she teaches poetry and lurks in swamps. Ryleigh enjoys flirting with prose and arranging her record collection by emotion. Her work is published or forthcoming in Longleaf Review, Rejection Letters, Flypaper Lit, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and elsewhere. She tweets @wannderfullll
Assistant Editor: Edward Sambrano III (he/they)
Edward Sambrano III is a Latinx poet and critic from San Antonio, Texas. An MFA candidate at the University of Florida, their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Waxwing, DIAGRAM, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. They are the recipient of awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop Series and the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and have been nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. They can be found on Twitter @SambranoPoet
Submission Reader: Kamden Hilliard (they/them)
Kamden Hilliard is a Black, nonbinary settler from Hawai’i and author of three chapbooks, most recently, henceforce: a travel poetic (Omnidawn Books, 2019). They earned a BA in American Studies from The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and an MFA in Poetry from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Kamden, who goes by Kam, studies surveillance, race, queerness, and American politics; they are thankful for support from The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, The UCROSS Foundation, and Callaloo. You can find Kam’s writing in West Branch, The Black Warrior Review, and Tagvverk. Formerly, they are an AmeriCorps VISTA, teacher, and Pfluflaught Fellow at the University of Iowa. Currently, they are the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Forever? Find ‘em on the internet at kamdenihilliard.com.
Submission Reader: Maggie Finch (she/her)
Maggie Finch is an essayist and poet from Appleton, Wisconsin. She recently received a Master's in English from Northern Michigan University, where she was also an Associate Poetry Editor for Passages North. When not writing, Maggie enjoys reading, making up songs for her cat named Bean, and traveling. More of her words can be found in Third Street Writers' Beach Reads: Paradise, Gravitas, Mistake House, and Mineral Lit Mag.
Submission Reader: Nardine Taleb (she/her)
Nardine Taleb is an Egyptian-American writer, speech therapist, and Prose Editor of the online literary journal Gordon Square Review based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Passengers Journal, The Knight’s Library Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Emerging Literary Journal, and others. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow. You can find her at the following social media platforms: Twitter: @nardineta / IG: @nardineta.
Submission Reader: Annette Covrigaru (they/them)
Annette Covrigaru is a gay, bigender American-Israeli writer, editor, and photographer. They've been awarded a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Nonfiction Fellowship, Home School Hudson Poetry Residency and Open Mouth Poetry Residency. Annette earned a B.A. from Kenyon College, where they received the 2014 Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize, and an M.A. in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa. Annette’s debut chapbook Reality In Bloom is forthcoming in 2020 with Ursus Americanus Press. They live and roller skate in Brooklyn.
Submission Reader: Angelo Maneage (he/him)
Angelo Maneage is an artist and poet in Cleveland, Ohio. His work is on or in poets.org, Hobart, jam & sand, around. His plays have been put on by convergence continuum. Visit him at angelomaneagethewebsite.com.
Submission Reader: DT McCrea (they/she)
DT McCrea (they/she) is a trans-anarchist poet. They love the NBA, know the lyrics to every Saintseneca song, and have a love hate relationship with philosophy. Her work can be found in Gordon Square Review, Honey & Lime, mutiny!, and on her website at https://dtmccrea.wordpress.com/. Follow them on twitter @dt_mccrea.
Submission Reader: Kevin Latimer (he/him)
Kevin Latimer is a poet from Cleveland, Ohio. he co-director of grieveland, a poetry project. his recent poems can be found in jubilat, Passages North, Hobart, Poetry Northwest & more. his plays have been produced by convergence-continuum. find him at @likelykevin.
Submission Reader: Patrick Mullen-Coyoy (they/he)
Patrick Mullen-Coyoy is a queer, Guatemalan-Irish Capricorn hunkering down in Lansing, MI. When not stressing over getting students to college, they enjoy writing poems about the moon blowing up. His writing appears in The Acentos Review, Barrelhouse, HAD, and several group chats. Hit them up on Twitter @aguacatemalteco for more gay antics.
Submission Reader: Kyle Sabin (he/him)
Kyle Sabin is an English literature and creative writing student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an unashamed Leo. When he is not hurriedly finishing readings for class, he tries to make his worldbuilding neurons fire by pacing. He loves the color purple, trench coats, and any adventure story with the MacGuffin trope.
Submission Reader: Emma Toms (she/her)
I’m Emma. I studied Creative Writing at George Mason University in Virginia and now I live in Boston where I work as a legal assistant. I’m constantly reading (specifically - lots of poetry!!) and trying to find more ways to write creatively as a college graduate who isn’t being pushed by the limbs of education anymore.
Submission Reader: Aveen Arya (he/him)
Aveen Arya is a writer attending Rutgers University. He loves to go to the gym, read, and write in his free time. One day he hopes to write a web serial like the many he enjoys reading.
Submission Reader: Dare Williams (he/they)
A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Dare Williams (he/they) is a Queer HIV-positive poet, artist, rooted in Southern California. He has received support for his work from John Ashbury Home School, The Frost Place, Breadloaf and Tin House. He was the co-curator of the West Hollywood Literature Festival 2021. Dare’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Best American Poets 2021. His work has been anthologized in Redshift 5 by Arroyo Secco Press and is featured in THRUSH, The Shore, Exposition Review, Night Heron Barks, West Trade Review,and elsewhere. He is at work on his debut poetry collection. Follow him on Twitter @Dare_Williams13 and www.darewilliams.com.
Submission Reader: Theo Nguyễn (they/them)
Theo is currently studying English at Rutgers, New Brunswick. They hope to one day be a writer, a teacher, and a cat owner.
Submission Reader: Ottavia Paluch (she/her)
Ottavia Paluch is a disabled high school student from Ontario, Canada. Her work is published or forthcoming in Four Way Review, Hunger Mountain, Gigantic Sequins, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Best Canadian Poetry, among other places. She’s also an alumna of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Flypaper Lit’s Flight School, and the Iowa Young Writers Studio.
Submission Reader: Aura Martin (she/her)
Aura Martin is a writer from Missouri. She is the author of two poetry books, with a third forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2022. Aura’s work has appeared in EX/POST, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened mag, and elsewhere. In her free time, she likes to run, take road trips, and interview writers. Find Aura on Twitter @instamartin17.
Submission Reader: Tori Rego (she/her)
Tori Rego is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She has an MFA from Northern Michigan University where she worked as an associate fiction editor for Passages North. She currently lives in Chicago and would like to bake you a pie. Her work can be found in Jellyfish Review, Fugue, Miniskirt Magazine, and elsewhere.
Flypaper logo design is credited to Columbus, OH artist Rachel Trenaman.
Joy David is a Ukrainian-American writer living in Cleveland, Ohio, where they are a geneticist in a lab studying diabetes and rare pediatric endocrine disorders. In their spare time they serve as Chief Poetry Critic for the Cleveland Review of Books and edit for Flypaper. Their debut chapbook Hibernation Highway was released in 2020 by Madhouse Press. Individual pieces by J. can be found in The Harvard Review, Colorado Review, 68 to 05, Salt Hill, Muzzle, Redivider, Passages North, and elsewhere.
Poetry Editor: Noor Hindi (she/her)
Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Hobart, and Jubilat. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, and Adroit Journal. She is a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow. Follow her on Twitter @MyNrhindi. Visit her website at noorhindi.com.
Prose Editor: Matt Mitchell (he/him)
Matt Mitchell is an intersex chump getting pummeled by his own carbon footprint in Columbus, Ohio. His work is currently, or soon will be, sleeping on the pull-out couches of Hobart Pulp, The Missouri Review, Bat City Review, The Boiler, and others. He wrote The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and tweets @matt_mitchell48.
Music Editor: Ryleigh Wann (she/her)
Ryleigh Wann is a Michigander earning her MFA from UNC Wilmington, where she teaches poetry and lurks in swamps. Ryleigh enjoys flirting with prose and arranging her record collection by emotion. Her work is published or forthcoming in Longleaf Review, Rejection Letters, Flypaper Lit, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and elsewhere. She tweets @wannderfullll
Assistant Editor: Edward Sambrano III (he/they)
Edward Sambrano III is a Latinx poet and critic from San Antonio, Texas. An MFA candidate at the University of Florida, their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Waxwing, DIAGRAM, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. They are the recipient of awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop Series and the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and have been nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. They can be found on Twitter @SambranoPoet
Submission Reader: Kamden Hilliard (they/them)
Kamden Hilliard is a Black, nonbinary settler from Hawai’i and author of three chapbooks, most recently, henceforce: a travel poetic (Omnidawn Books, 2019). They earned a BA in American Studies from The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and an MFA in Poetry from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Kamden, who goes by Kam, studies surveillance, race, queerness, and American politics; they are thankful for support from The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, The UCROSS Foundation, and Callaloo. You can find Kam’s writing in West Branch, The Black Warrior Review, and Tagvverk. Formerly, they are an AmeriCorps VISTA, teacher, and Pfluflaught Fellow at the University of Iowa. Currently, they are the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Forever? Find ‘em on the internet at kamdenihilliard.com.
Submission Reader: Maggie Finch (she/her)
Maggie Finch is an essayist and poet from Appleton, Wisconsin. She recently received a Master's in English from Northern Michigan University, where she was also an Associate Poetry Editor for Passages North. When not writing, Maggie enjoys reading, making up songs for her cat named Bean, and traveling. More of her words can be found in Third Street Writers' Beach Reads: Paradise, Gravitas, Mistake House, and Mineral Lit Mag.
Submission Reader: Nardine Taleb (she/her)
Nardine Taleb is an Egyptian-American writer, speech therapist, and Prose Editor of the online literary journal Gordon Square Review based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Passengers Journal, The Knight’s Library Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Emerging Literary Journal, and others. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow. You can find her at the following social media platforms: Twitter: @nardineta / IG: @nardineta.
Submission Reader: Annette Covrigaru (they/them)
Annette Covrigaru is a gay, bigender American-Israeli writer, editor, and photographer. They've been awarded a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Nonfiction Fellowship, Home School Hudson Poetry Residency and Open Mouth Poetry Residency. Annette earned a B.A. from Kenyon College, where they received the 2014 Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize, and an M.A. in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa. Annette’s debut chapbook Reality In Bloom is forthcoming in 2020 with Ursus Americanus Press. They live and roller skate in Brooklyn.
Submission Reader: Angelo Maneage (he/him)
Angelo Maneage is an artist and poet in Cleveland, Ohio. His work is on or in poets.org, Hobart, jam & sand, around. His plays have been put on by convergence continuum. Visit him at angelomaneagethewebsite.com.
Submission Reader: DT McCrea (they/she)
DT McCrea (they/she) is a trans-anarchist poet. They love the NBA, know the lyrics to every Saintseneca song, and have a love hate relationship with philosophy. Her work can be found in Gordon Square Review, Honey & Lime, mutiny!, and on her website at https://dtmccrea.wordpress.com/. Follow them on twitter @dt_mccrea.
Submission Reader: Kevin Latimer (he/him)
Kevin Latimer is a poet from Cleveland, Ohio. he co-director of grieveland, a poetry project. his recent poems can be found in jubilat, Passages North, Hobart, Poetry Northwest & more. his plays have been produced by convergence-continuum. find him at @likelykevin.
Submission Reader: Patrick Mullen-Coyoy (they/he)
Patrick Mullen-Coyoy is a queer, Guatemalan-Irish Capricorn hunkering down in Lansing, MI. When not stressing over getting students to college, they enjoy writing poems about the moon blowing up. His writing appears in The Acentos Review, Barrelhouse, HAD, and several group chats. Hit them up on Twitter @aguacatemalteco for more gay antics.
Submission Reader: Kyle Sabin (he/him)
Kyle Sabin is an English literature and creative writing student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and an unashamed Leo. When he is not hurriedly finishing readings for class, he tries to make his worldbuilding neurons fire by pacing. He loves the color purple, trench coats, and any adventure story with the MacGuffin trope.
Submission Reader: Emma Toms (she/her)
I’m Emma. I studied Creative Writing at George Mason University in Virginia and now I live in Boston where I work as a legal assistant. I’m constantly reading (specifically - lots of poetry!!) and trying to find more ways to write creatively as a college graduate who isn’t being pushed by the limbs of education anymore.
Submission Reader: Aveen Arya (he/him)
Aveen Arya is a writer attending Rutgers University. He loves to go to the gym, read, and write in his free time. One day he hopes to write a web serial like the many he enjoys reading.
Submission Reader: Dare Williams (he/they)
A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Dare Williams (he/they) is a Queer HIV-positive poet, artist, rooted in Southern California. He has received support for his work from John Ashbury Home School, The Frost Place, Breadloaf and Tin House. He was the co-curator of the West Hollywood Literature Festival 2021. Dare’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Best American Poets 2021. His work has been anthologized in Redshift 5 by Arroyo Secco Press and is featured in THRUSH, The Shore, Exposition Review, Night Heron Barks, West Trade Review,and elsewhere. He is at work on his debut poetry collection. Follow him on Twitter @Dare_Williams13 and www.darewilliams.com.
Submission Reader: Theo Nguyễn (they/them)
Theo is currently studying English at Rutgers, New Brunswick. They hope to one day be a writer, a teacher, and a cat owner.
Submission Reader: Ottavia Paluch (she/her)
Ottavia Paluch is a disabled high school student from Ontario, Canada. Her work is published or forthcoming in Four Way Review, Hunger Mountain, Gigantic Sequins, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Best Canadian Poetry, among other places. She’s also an alumna of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Flypaper Lit’s Flight School, and the Iowa Young Writers Studio.
Submission Reader: Aura Martin (she/her)
Aura Martin is a writer from Missouri. She is the author of two poetry books, with a third forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2022. Aura’s work has appeared in EX/POST, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened mag, and elsewhere. In her free time, she likes to run, take road trips, and interview writers. Find Aura on Twitter @instamartin17.
Submission Reader: Tori Rego (she/her)
Tori Rego is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She has an MFA from Northern Michigan University where she worked as an associate fiction editor for Passages North. She currently lives in Chicago and would like to bake you a pie. Her work can be found in Jellyfish Review, Fugue, Miniskirt Magazine, and elsewhere.
Flypaper logo design is credited to Columbus, OH artist Rachel Trenaman.
