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

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Edyta Cousens is a Polish-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. She holds an M.A. in Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and is developing her debut historical novel

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.