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Scout Roux

Fiction Editor

Scout (@scoutroux) is a writer from the Milwaukee area. They attended college for English Literature in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where they first worked as an editor for NOTA (None of the Above). Their short stories and poetry have found grateful homes in the pages of Furrow Magazine, The Allegheny Review, and Barstow & Grand among others. They live with their fiancee, their cat, and pet parrot, dreaming of a vegetable patch to one day call their own.

Mollie Williamson

Fiction Editor

Mollie Williamson is a writer based in the Bay Area of California.  She attended Saint Mary’s College of California double majoring in Art History and Women’s Studies in 2013.  Mollie then received her master’s in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama in 2014.  She enjoys writing stories based on fairy tales and mythology.  Her work has been featured in The Pinkley Press, Toho Journal, and Nightingale & Sparrow with forthcoming work in various publications.  Her forthcoming chapbook, Pandora, will be published as part of the staff series by Nightingale & Sparrow Press in April 2021. When not writing, you can find her drinking endless amounts of jasmine tea and possibly planning her next trip to the Happiest Place on Earth.

Mary Anne Bordonaro

Editorial Assistant

Mary Anne Bordonaro is a creative writing teacher, writer, and traveler with an inability to sit still and a cat named “corned beef”. Originally from South Carolina, she graduated in 2018 from Winthrop University with a B.A. in English/Creative Writing. She then moved to France to be an ESL teacher. Six months ago she moved to the small Pacific Island of American Samoa. She has been published in Heavy Feather Review, The Roddey-MacMillan Record, Journeys of Girls, and she has a short story forthcoming in Feb. 2020 in Taco Bell Quarterly.

Rosie Carter

Editorial Assistant

Rosie Carter is a photographer, illustrator, and writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has previously been published in Nightingale and Sparrow, the Journal of the Core Curriculum at Boston University, and Marias at Sampaguitas. She enjoys philosophy and is avid about all things cat-related. You can find her reading and relaxing with her two cats, Butterscotch and Orzo.

Mackenzie Denofio 

Editorial Assistant

Mackenzie Denofio is a writer from upstate New York. She is currently an undergrad at Emerson College majoring in Writing, Literature, and Publishing with a concentration in Publishing. She enjoys analyzing movies, TV shows, and books. When not doing that she can be found writing short gothic horror stories into the early hours of the morning. She adores pirates, witches, and James McAvoy.  She is currently on a never ending quest to eat all of the cheese in the world.

Emma Easy

Production Manager

Emma Easy writes poetry and non-fiction and lives in Cornwall, UK. She studied Writing, Nature and Place at the University of Exeter. She was shortlisted for the 2013 Earthlines Essay Prize and has work forthcoming in Lighthouse Journal and Rust + Moth.

Megan Russo

Production Manager

Megan Russo is a writer and designer currently living in Austin, TX. She attended the University of Cincinnati majoring in Studio Arts with a focus in Printmaking. Her work has been published by Cauldron Anthology, Palm Sized Press, Royal Rose Literary Magazine, and Pussy Magic Magazine. Her forthcoming chapbook, A Daughter for Mr. Spider, will be published as part of the staff series by Nightingale & Sparrow Press in the Spring of 2020. Check out more by Megan at meganrusso.com or on Twitter @forgewithstyle.

Holley Cornetto

Associate Production Manager

Holley Cornetto was born and raised in Alabama, but now lives in New Jersey. She is a librarian by day, and a writer by night. Her fiction is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine.

Heather E. Graham

Associate Production Manager

Heather E. Graham is a writer, poet, and a student at the University of Utah where she studies Writing And Rhetoric and Gender Studies. She works for the Salt Lake Community College Student Writing and Reading Center as a Writing Consultant, the SLCC Community Writing Center as a Publications Coordinator, and as Copy Editor for both the SLCC and U of U school newspapers. She has also worked as Literary Editor and Design Editor for the award-winning SLCC Literary Magazine. She does freelance and volunteer editing and publication design and dabbles in web design and photography. Heather’s work has been published under the pen name H.E. Grahame in The Bitchin Kitsch, SLCC Folio, SLCC Anthology and Brave Voices Magazine,  She has also won SLCC’s Chapbook contest in 2015 (memoir) and 2019 (poetry) and been included in Z Publishing House Emerging Poets and Writers series and the 2019 Gay Apparel Queer Holiday Flash Fiction Anthology.

Melissa Ramos

Associate Production Manager

Melissa Ramos is a writer, proofreader, and aspiring authoress living in Florida. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa, and her work has appeared in Luna Luna Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, and Siren’s Call Publications. When she isn’t reading fairy tales or ghost stories, she can be found in Starbucks sipping her favorite latte and working on her first novel.

Ayva Kunes

Social Media Manager
Ayva Kunes is a junior creative writing major at Susquehanna University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family and the four-legged lights of her life, Sophie and Badger. When she is not reading or writing, she also dabbles in photography.

Rachel Tanner

Social Media Manager
Rachel Tanner is an Alabamian writer whose work has appeared in Peach Mag, Longleaf Review, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming chapbook, Heal My Way Home, will be published as part of the staff series by Nightingale & Sparrow Press in October 2020. She tweets @rickit.