colin james sturdevant
Rebecca Danelly
Craig Bertuglia
L. A. Merrill
Matthue Roth
Joseph Roberts
Amechi Ngwe
Ileana Leticia Reyes
Allison Janicki
colin james sturdevant - MANAGING EDITOR & FOUNDER
colin james sturdevant graduated from the University of Houston in the summer of 2016 with a BA in English – Creative Writing; Fiction, and a minor in Anthropology (Food & Alcohol in Culture). He writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Glass Mountain, Bluestem Magazine, Crab Creek Review, The Bayou Review, and others. He won second place in the Adoptee Reclaimed Poetry Contest in 2021. He is also the host of our reading series, bar//DRINK Reading Series, which is a seasonal event that fundraises for our means and supports local literature. He enjoys foolishness, cookery, and hopping around town to try craft cocktails.
Rebecca Danelly//POETRY CO-EDITOR
Rebecca Danelly graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in Creative Writing and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Texas State University. She is a mother, grandmother, and USAF veteran. She is an educator and has been a dog trainer. She’s had poems published in
“Equinox Journal,” “Defunkt Magazine,” “Glass Mountain,” “The Ocotillo Review,” “The Texas Poetry Calendar,” in the anthology “Enchantment of the Ordinary” and has poems in the forthcoming Mutabilis Press anthology, “Chaos, Dive, Reunion.”
“Equinox Journal,” “Defunkt Magazine,” “Glass Mountain,” “The Ocotillo Review,” “The Texas Poetry Calendar,” in the anthology “Enchantment of the Ordinary” and has poems in the forthcoming Mutabilis Press anthology, “Chaos, Dive, Reunion.”
Craig Bertuglia//POETRY-CO-EDITOR
After leaving home at the age of fourteen, Craig Bertuglia has been a high school dropout, a juvenile delinquent, a mental patient, a punk rock musician, a monk (at a yoga ashram), and then assailed the walls of academia. He received an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1994 having received his BA in English Education (with a minor in Creative Writing) at the University of South Florida in 1992. Craig worked as a Teen Services Librarian for Houston Public Library from 1999 till 2020. He’s won the Suncoast Writers Conference award for poetry, received an honorable mention from the American Academy of Poets, and has been a Juried Poet in the Houston Poetry Festival. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Feh: The Journal of Odious Poems, The Omnibus, and Gargoyle Online.
L. A. Merrill//POETRY CO-EDITOR
L.A. Merrill’s poems have appeared in the Texas Poetry Calendar, Synkroniciti, and Equinox, among others. Merrill was a juried poet for the 2017 Houston Poetry Fest and a featured reader at the Poetry Fix series in Houston in 2018. She emceed Public Poetry virtual readings in 2020 and 2021. Merrill won a Rowan Foundation scholarship to the 2021 Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers. She enjoys live music, nature walks, reading, photography, cooking and all sorts of other creative endeavors.
Matthue Roth//FICTION CO-EDITOR
Matthue Roth wrote the novel Rules of My Best Friend’s Body, the picture book My First Kafka, and a very short song for John Legend. He lives in Brooklyn with his four daughters. By day, he’s a writer at Google, and he keeps a secret diary at matthue.com.
Joseph "Joe" Roberts//FICTION CO-EDITOR
Joe Roberts is a writer. They reside on Akokiksas, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Sana land (currently known as Houston, TX).
Amechi Ngwe//FICTION CO-EDITOR
Amechi Ngwe is a writer of fiction, from short stories to screenplays. His short stories have been published by Structo Magazine, Divergent Magazine, Feathertale, and Story Houston, among others. When he is not writing he can be found performing improv comedy with the award-winning troupe Can’t Tell Us Nothing.
Ileana Leticia Reyes Soliz//NONFICTION EDITOR
Ileana Leticia Reyes is a first-year graduate student in Professional Writing at Liberty University. In 2018, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies from the University of St. Thomas (Texas) with concentrations in bilingual education and philosophy. She has been journaling since age seven in an enduring resolution to document her life at every feasible stage. Her interests include graphic design, traditional drawing, and anything written by Terry Pratchett.
Allison Janicki//ART EDITOR
Allison Janicki is an artist, writer, reader, editor, designer, library technician, half-marathoner, sub-par ukulele player and cat lover from Walled Lake, Michigan. She has had art, poetry, and essays published in The Sonder Review, Goat’s Milk Magazine, Storm Cellar, Volney Road Magazine, Voice of Eve, Random Sample and Borrowed Solace. She still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up.