Colin James Sturdevant
FOUNDER & MANAGING EDITOR :: Colin James Sturdevant is a poet, writer, and food journalist (edible Houston) living in the melting pot city that is Houston, TX. His work has been featured in some places in print and online, some of which no longer exist, but now it is all going into print as he works as a Special Education teacher in the public sector. He is also the Founder and Editor for pass the salt presse which is a 501c3 (nonprofit) that houses everything at the root of table/ /FEAST Literary Magazine which includes the bar/ /DRINK Reading Series. He is currently working on two chapbook projects titled "The Night Cryer's Lament: The Rorschach Exchange Project" and "unrequited". His longer project in the works is a titled collection called "Horse myth & other poems". He enjoys cookery and dining out, craft cocktails, and foolishness. He's more interested in your story.
CONTEST & MANUSCRIPT ASSOCIATE EDITOR :: Kat Bacani holds a B.A. in creative writing with a minor in Spanish, bringing her innovative background to roles in literary advocacy and public relations. As the program associate at Writers In The Schools, she empowers Houston’s creative community by coordinating after-school programs and connecting the youth to professional writers and spoken word artists. With Texans for the Arts, Kat Bacani advocates for cultural initiatives across Texas, using her background in creative writing and public relations to promote the importance of arts funding and education within the community. Eager to challenge the limits of her creativity, she is currently exploring app design and seeking every opportunity to uplift the voices within the literary arts.
Kat Bacani
Oliver Antoni Krawczyk
CONTEST WINNER INTERVIEWER :: Oliver Antoni Krawczyk is a poet who grew up in Milwaukee, WI. He's published in The West Review, Lullwater Review, and elsewhere; as well as Hope Is The Thing and Listen To Your Skin anthologies. He enjoys participating in karaoke when he's not at work.
POETRY CO-EDITOR :: Rebecca Danelly holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and is currently co-editor of poetry at “table//Feast Mag.” Her poems have been published in “Kestrel,” in the anthology, Chaos, Dive, Reunion by Mutabilis Press, and in numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a mother and grandmother, a United States Air Force veteran, and teaches college writing at the University of Houston-Downtown in Houston on former Akokisa, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Sana land where she resides with her partner, Jeremy, and Daisy, the oversized chihuahua.
Rebecca Danelly
Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
POETRY CO-EDITOR :: Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Frontier I, is a Nigerian-Hausa multidisciplinary artist, poet, and licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist from Bobi. She is the author of Cadaver of Red Roses (O, Miami Books) won the 2023 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize, winner of the inaugural Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize 2023, Labari Poetry Prize 2023, the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature 2023, and Gimba Suleiman Hassan Gimba ESQ Poetry Prize, 2022 and the first beneficiary of Carolyn Micklem Scholarship. Her works appeared or were forthcoming in Strange Horizons, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Poetry Daily, Agbowo, Poetry Wales, Torch Literary Arts, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Her second chapbook, Uncensored Snapshots, is forthcoming with Chestnut Review (2025). She is active on X @ZainabBobi.
POETRY CO-EDITOR :: Lori Lasseter Hamilton is a 54-year-old rape survivor, breast cancer survivor, and rectal cancer survivor. She is a member of Sister City Connection, a collective of women poets, spoken word artists, and storytellers in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Some of her poems have appeared in SWWIM, Poetry Super Highway, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ghost City Review, Avant Appal(achia), Global Poemic, The Stray Branch, Birmingham Arts Journal, and Steel Toe Review. Lori earned a bachelor of arts degree from UAB, with a minor in English. She helped edit Voices of Resistance: A Sister City Connection Anthology with Laura Secord and Ashley Jones, poet laureate of Alabama. After spending most of 2023 in the hospital, Lori works as a receptionist in a medical clinic.
Lori Lasseter Hamilton
Ivania Rivas
POETRY CO-EDITOR :: Ivania Rivas is a poet, writer, amateur philosopher, and musician who dances at the crossroads of words and ideas. With a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, she honed her craft as a writing consultant at the UH Writing Center, where she formed warm, lasting connections with fellow Texas writers. Her love of philosophy is matched only by her passion for making music on her keyboards and synth. This is her first foray into editing, but with years of writing and study under her belt, she's more than ready for the adventure.
POETRY CO-EDITOR :: Isaac Salazar (he/him) is an Austin-born, Houston-based poet. His work is published in AGNI, Dead End Zine, Honey Literary, the Acentos Review and Where Meadows, among others. He is currently a graduate student at Rice University.
Isaac Salazar
Astrid Haynes
Astrid Haynes is a poet and artist from Houston. She enjoys swimming, lewd poem titles, yoga and repetitive sad tunes. She is a capricorn moon and is often praised for her humor and neat handwriting. Her work appears in Pink Plastic House, The feelings journal, No Issue, Shitwonder and Tuffpoems.
Bri Chapman
FICTION CO-EDITOR :: Bri Chapman (she/her) is currently an MFA fiction candidate for Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on the human condition seen in mythology, fairy tales, and urban legends. She is currently working as a graphic designer for Small Harbor Publishing and as a fiction co-editor for table//FEAST Literary Magazine.