abouttheteam

Addie Tsai (founder & co-editor in chief, features, fat + furious) (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. He received her Master of Fine Arts from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and their PhD in Dance from Texas Woman's University. They also teach in Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures, which is a Shirley Jackson Awards finalist for Best Novel. She is the Senior Prose Acquisitions Editor for Abode Press, Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, and contributing writer at Spectrum South. Find them on Twitter @addiebrook and Instagram @bluejuniper.

Sarah Sheppeck (co-editor in chief, the glow up, the mane attraction, afrodisiac) (she/they) is a graduate of U.C. Riverside’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Rochester and her Master’s in Secondary Education and Curriculum from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Born and raised in upstate New York with stints in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the woods of northern Maine, she is now back in her home state with her pit mix, Chloe. Find her on Twitter: @EpicSheppeck.

jj rowan (sew what, not what it seams) (they/them) is a queer nonbinary writer and dancer working in a web of fusion-based movement practices, diary, correspondence & collaboration, intuitive ritual, traveling scraps of paper, and, most recently, in a treehouse in a little wooded corner of New Hampshire. Their chapbook, a simple verb, is available from Bloof Books. Find them at www.jayjayrowan.com and on Instagram: @stepswritely.

Jen St. Jude (solemates, (get your) thread in the game)

(she/they/mx) is the managing director at Chicago Review of Books, and has work in Gigantic Sequins, The Rumpus, and Catapult. She is the author of debut YA novel, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come. Find them on Twitter: @jenstjude.

Kirin Khan (triple thread(s))

(she/her) is a writer living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands who calls Albuquerque, New Mexico her hometown, and Peshawar, Pakistan her homeland. She is grateful for fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, SF Writers Grotto, AWP's Writer to Writer program, and SJSU's Steinbeck Fellowship, and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and Tin House. Her essay “Tight” was nominated by Nat. Brut for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Corporeal Khora, The Margins, Your Impossible Voice, 7x7.LA and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter: @kirinjaan, and her work at kirinkhan.com.

Sky Cubacub (cancel & gretel)

(they/them) is a non-binary disabled Filipinx queer from Chicago, IL. Rebirth Garments is their clothing line for the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a celebratory movement based on unapologetically flaunting our bodies through the use of bright colors, exuberant fabrics, and innovative designs. Sky was named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune and was a 2019/2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist and a Disability Futures Fellow. Rebirth Garments has been featured in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Playboy, the New York Times and many more! Find them on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter @rebirthgarments.

Jo Davis-McElligatt (no scrubs)

(she/her) is queer Black woman and mama to the best kid ever. She is an Assistant Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Texas, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Black studies, comics studies, and southern studies. She is the co-editor of three collections: Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy; Narrating History, Home, and Nation: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat; and BOOM! @*#&! Splat: Comics and Violence. She is currently writing her first monograph, Black and Immigrant: The New African Diaspora in American Literature after 1965. Find her on Twitter: @jcdmce.