Beth
Editor-in-Chief
Beth (she/her) received her MFA in Creative Writing and Pedagogy from Miami University in Ohio. Her work has appeared in The Write Launch, Barren Magazine, and others. She is a recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant for Feminist Writing and the Jordan-Goodman Prize in Fiction. Her work has been supported by the Millay Arts, Jentel Art, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Hambidge Center residences, as well as the Tin House Workshop and New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her website can be found at bethweeks.com.
Beth’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: The Bikeriders (2023), The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Twittering Birds Never Fly by Kou Yoneda, wolves, wolfboys, Breaking Bad, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), MXTX novels and their adaptations, Baby Driver (2017), Star Wars, Painter of the Night by Byeonduck, disability studies, 19 Days by Old Xian, feral girls and monstrous women, monstrous girls and feral women, Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, narratology, redemption arcs, recovery arcs, forgiveness arcs, Lawrence of Arabia, autistic and/or asexual characters, Shakespeare, the Alien franchise, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, loyalty kink, competency kink, Genshin Impact
Amber
Managing Editor
Amber (she/her) received her BA in English in 2019 and her short fiction has been featured in several small presses. Her writing tends to center around fun things like moral ambiguity, apocalyptic scenarios, and/or “unhealthy” relationship dynamics; her aesthetic has been described as “horny true crime,” which made her laugh very hard. Ultimately, Amber is passionate about creating stories and characters that come from the heart, and she wants to help others do the same. Her only social media is @valkyrhys on Tumblr.
Amber’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: her dog and bunny, age gap relationships, chocolate, sunny days, size kink, long runs to the water, Lolita (Nabokov), found family, overprotectiveness, The Bronze Horseman series (Simons), homoerotic female friendships, feral girls, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Greenwood), dead doves, skinned knees, swords & other sharp objects, Star Wars, farm life, ride or die relationships, everything written by Janet Inglis, religious cults, sleepy animals, strawberry lemonade, the intimacy of nonsexual bathing, back rubs, rainbow sprinkles
Anna
Art Director
Anna (she/her) is a graphic designer. She is passionate about the area where visuals and language intersect, and the narratives we tell ourselves about both.
Anna’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: Gillian Flynn protagonists, Mothman, homoerotic female friendships, We Need to Talk About Kevin, vampires, sisters, biblical angels, genfic, bisexuality, autumn candles, Hemlock Grove, negging Aaron Sorkin, polyhedral dice, Vulf Mono, Scott McCall, femdom, Let Your Dad Die Energy Drink, reluctant soulmates, Friday Night Lights, Shirley Jackson, evangelical deconstruction, whatever Venom and Eddie have going on, hour-long video essays, Pride and Prejudice (2005), magical mundanity, and cold coffee.
Emi
Assistant Art Director
Emi (she/her) is a graphic designer and aspiring fandom scholar. She is passionate about all things fandom, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, ficbinding, or podfics. In fact, her design journey began with making covers for her favourite fanfiction.
Emi’s aesthetic interests/favorite things: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, the Princess Bride by William Goldman, Into the Woods (1988), Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, fairy tales, affectionate genre parodies, comedies with hearts of gold, neurodivergent characters, changelings as autistic allegory, asexuality, bisexual M/F ships, Fire Emblem, Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate 3, Asian literature, messy love triangles, prose that sings, PoV as plot twist, biracialism, multiculturalism, PoC stories, friends to lovers, Rose O’Neill’s Kewpies, Louis Wain, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and cats.