Staff

Our Staff

Editor-in-Chief: Casey McCarthy

Editorial Assistants: Vacant

Communications and Administrative Manager: Melody Rivas

Communications and Administrative Assistant: Analisa Davis, Natalie Intihar

Recruitment Manager: Vacant

Design and Layout Manager: Ryan Yau

Design and Layout Assistants: Vacant

Website Design Manager: Casey McCarthy

Website Assistants: Vacant

Art Manager: Maren Detlefs

Art Judges: Clarissa McLaughlin, Jen Sexton-Riley, Wei Zhao

Copy Chief: Clarissa McLaughlin

Copy Editors: Natia Kirvalidze, Ember-Reece Richardson

Social Media Manager: K Rose Stanley

Social Media Assistant: Alexandra Ashe

Submissions Manager: Amira Mazzawy

Submissions Assistant: Emily Andsager

Features Editor: Natia Kirvalidze

Features Assistant: Vacant

Features Writer: Shannon Stockdale-Elftman

Features Writer: Shannon Sweeney

Readers: Haley Brock, Emily Chapel, Maren Detlefs, Keera Lydon, Katie McGuire, Ella Miller, Amber Morrison, K. R. Stanley, Tehya Tenasco, Wei Zhao, Skylar Allen

Meet the Team

Emily Andsager – Submissions Assistant

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
-Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Alexandra Ashe – Social Media Assistant

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” -Ernest Hemingway

Haley Brock – Reader

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Emily Chapel – Reader & Co-Chair of the Board

“Sometimes a fantasy author has to point out the strangeness of reality.” -Sir Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Analisa Davis – Communications & Administrative Assistant

“The lover alone possesses his gift of love.” -Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Maren Detlefs – Art Manager & Reader

“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.” -Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

Patrick Edinger – Features Writer & Board Administrator

If you live too much in the past, your life will be nothing but history.

Shannon Stockdale-Elftman – Feature Writer

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” -Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Natalie Intihar – Communications & Administrative Assistant

 “Writing fiction is easy- just start writing about yourself and don’t stop yourself from lying.” 

Natia Kirvalidze – Features Editor

“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers, but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.” -L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Keera Lydon – Reader

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” -Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Amira Mazzawy – Submissions Manager

I plan to become a professor of English and creative writing, and will soon endeavor the daunting task of applying for a Ph.D. For now, I hope being a submissions manager will expose me to more creative works and what the world of publishing is like to help teach my future students.

Casey McCarthy – Editor-in-Chief

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” -Robert Frost

Katie McGuire – Reader

“So it goes.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Clarissa McLaughlin – Board Chair & Copy Chief

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” -Neil Gaiman

Ella Miller – Reader

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” -Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Amber Morrison – Reader

“Don’t think or judge. Just listen.” -Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Ember-Reece Richardson – Copy Editor

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” -Benjamin Franklin

Jen Sexton-Riley – Art Judge & Board Member

“Year after year
On the monkey’s face
A monkey face”
-Matsuo Bashō

Melody Rivas – Communications and Administrative Manager

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

K. R. Stanley – Social Media Manager & Reader

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” -Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems

Tehya Tenasco – Reader

“Always be a poet, even in prose.” -Charles Baudelaire

Wei Zhao – Art Judge & Reader

I am a fan of reading and writing sci-fi and fantasy fiction. I am working on a mystery novel called The Testaments of Rosa SP.