Editor-in-Chief: J. David (they/them)
J. 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: Alexia Kemerling (she/her)
Alexia Kemerling is a disabled writer and publishing editor living in Columbus, Ohio. She has work in, or forthcoming to, Flyway, Mud Season Review, TIMBER, and Deaf Poets Society, among others. When she can remember her password, she tweets @kexlem.
Music Editor: Danielle Chelosky (she/her)
Danielle Chelosky is a New York-based writer who explores music and culture for MTV News and The FADER, while diving into sex and relationships for Rejection Letters and Witch Craft Magazine. She's an editorial assistant at Hobart Pulp and a first nonfiction reader at Pidgeonholes.
Assistant Editor: Edward Sambrano III (he/him)
Edward Sambrano III is from San Antonio, Texas. An MFA candidate at the University of Florida, his recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Salamander Magazine, DIAGRAM, and Pidgeonholes, among other publications. He loves cats and concerts. Follow him 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: 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.
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.
On-Staff Book Reviewer: Julia Beach (she/her)
Julia Beach graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. A southern girl living in Massachusetts, she works as a freelance graphic designer and content writer in the non-profit sector. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Occulum, Barren Magazine, and I-70 Review. She’s a devoted collector of weird facts and a firm believer in the Oxford comma.
Flypaper logo design is credited to Columbus, OH artist Rachel Trenaman.
J. 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: Alexia Kemerling (she/her)
Alexia Kemerling is a disabled writer and publishing editor living in Columbus, Ohio. She has work in, or forthcoming to, Flyway, Mud Season Review, TIMBER, and Deaf Poets Society, among others. When she can remember her password, she tweets @kexlem.
Music Editor: Danielle Chelosky (she/her)
Danielle Chelosky is a New York-based writer who explores music and culture for MTV News and The FADER, while diving into sex and relationships for Rejection Letters and Witch Craft Magazine. She's an editorial assistant at Hobart Pulp and a first nonfiction reader at Pidgeonholes.
Assistant Editor: Edward Sambrano III (he/him)
Edward Sambrano III is from San Antonio, Texas. An MFA candidate at the University of Florida, his recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Salamander Magazine, DIAGRAM, and Pidgeonholes, among other publications. He loves cats and concerts. Follow him 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: 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.
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.
On-Staff Book Reviewer: Julia Beach (she/her)
Julia Beach graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. A southern girl living in Massachusetts, she works as a freelance graphic designer and content writer in the non-profit sector. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Occulum, Barren Magazine, and I-70 Review. She’s a devoted collector of weird facts and a firm believer in the Oxford comma.
Flypaper logo design is credited to Columbus, OH artist Rachel Trenaman.
