Editor-in-chief

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Charity is a novelist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her short fiction The River has appeared in the publication Midnight & Indigo.

Visual Arts editor

Fiction editor

Creative non-fiction editor

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Julie Chibbaro is the award-winning author of three historical novels: Into the Dangerous World (Viking), Deadly (Simon & Schuster), and Redemption (Simon & Schuster). She will graduate from the MFA program at Hood College in 2028. 

Poetry editor

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Elizabeth Ambos writes and lives in Washington, DC. She embraces multiple careers as a geoscientist, teacher, researcher, and as an administrator in higher education-affiliated organizations. Her first chapbook, Smoked Glass Lens (2026), has been published by Dancing Girl Press.

Historical fiction editor

Faculty advisor

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Dorian Elizabeth Knapp earned a B.A. from Amherst College, an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. She is the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Hood College and lives in Frederick, Maryland with her husband, the novelist Robert Eversz, and their two children.