Colin James Sturdevant
: FOUNDER & MANAGING EDITOR :
Colin James Sturdevant is a poet and writer living in the melting pot city that is Houston, TX. His work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Bluestem Magazine, The Bayou Review, Peach Fuzz Magazine, and Mid/South Sonnets. He is an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry candidate at the low residency program at Western Colorado University. He's more interested in your story.
He founded the literary magazine table//FEAST which gave rise to pass the salt presse. The publication and press that followed were conceptualized during the height of Covid 19.
In the summer and fall, he works alongside the unhoused youth at Montrose Grace Place where the said youth are paid for their original poetry. Their poems are then anthologized and sold to support the ongoing impact project that is The Unbroken Wheat Project.
ry.: POETRY EDITOR :
L.A. Merrill is a longtime professional writer and editor and has been a table//FEAST editor since 2022. In 2021, she won a Rowan Foundation scholarship to the Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers. Merrill was a juried poet for the 2017 Houston Poetry Fest. She emceed Public Poetry’s virtual readings in 2020 and 2021 and has hosted other literary events. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Synkroniciti, Equinox, Archway Gallery’s 50th anniversary book, and other publications. She lives in Texas with her cat.
L.A. Merrill
Alli Riechman-Bennet
Alli Riechman-Bennet is an author based in the Missouri Ozarks and holds an MA in English Literature from Washington State University. She is a Managing Editor for Same Faces Collective, Associate Editor of Poetry with table//FEAST, CNF Editor for Blood + Honey, and her work has appeared in many literary magazines. Her work mainly deals with food literature, foodways, and anything edible. www.allisonleeriechman-bennett.org
Lydia Renfro
: FICTION EDITOR :
Lydia Renfro holds an MFA from Adelphi University and is the recipient of the Donald Everett Axinn Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Okie Bookcast, Litro US, Red Fern Review, Level Land: Poems For and About the I35 Corridor, Siblini Journal, Miletus International Literature Magazine, and others. Raised on the Great Plains of Oklahoma, Lydia now lives in Colorado with her dog.
Crystal Reyes
: CREATIVE NON-FICTION EDITOR :
Crystal Reyes (she/ella) is a Latinx essayist, poet, and educator from Houston. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Bay Path University, the CNF Editor with table//FEAST literary magazine, and the author of Wildflower Blooming (2023). Her work appears in HipLatina, Entre Magazine, Autostraddle, Panocha Zine and other literary anthologies. She has received support from The Kenyon Review, The Writer’s Center, & Writespace Houston. Crystal is a mother, wife, and true Taurus — stubborn, often hangry, and always ready with a pen in hand.
PROSE TRANLSATIONS EDITOR :: Miriam Calleja is a poet, workshop leader, artist, creativity expert, and translator. She speaks English, Maltese, and Italian. Her work has appeared in Taos, plume, humana obscura, and elsewhere. Her full poetry collections are Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015) and Inside (EDE Books, 2016). Her poetry chapbooks are Remember (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), Stranger Intimacy (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), and Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence (BottleCap Press, 2023); her book of poetry translated from Maltese is Variations on Silence (PoetryWala, 2025). Miriam is the winner of the table // FEAST 2025 translation competition. She is also the 2025 Artist-in-Residence for the Mobile Medical Museum. Miriam is from Malta and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more on miriamcalleja.com.
Miriam Calleja
EDITORS INCOMING FOR ISSUE SIX, YEAR 26-27 ARE PENDING.