Our Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Main Burton
Editorial Assistants: Marleigh Green, Casey McCarthy, Jen Sexton-Riley
Communications and Administrative Manager: Melody Rivas
Communications and Administrative Assistant: Analisa Davis, Natalie Intihar
Membership Recruitment Manager: Vacant
Design and Layout Manager: Logan Ward
Website Design Manager: Casey McCarthy
Layout Assistant: Dikshya Pattnaik
Design Assistant: Vacant
Art Manager: Maren Detlefs
Art Judges: Clarissa McLaughlin, Sarah Burton, Jen Sexton-Riley, Wei Zhao, Logan Ward
Copy Chief: Tess Rossi
Copy Editors: Natia Kirvalidze, Clarissa McLaughlin, Ember-Reece Richardson, Skylar Allen
Social Media Manager: Marleigh Green
Social Media Assistant: Alexandra Ashe
Submissions Manager: Amira Mazzawy
Submissions Assistant: Emily Andsager
Features Writer: Shannon Stockdale-Elftman
Features Writer: Shannon Sweeney
Features Assistant: Vacant
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
Skylar Allen – Copyeditor & Reader
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
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
Haley Brock – Reader
Sarah Main Burton – Editor-in-Chief & Art Judge
Emily Chapel – Reader & Co-Chair of the Board
Analisa Davis – Communications & Administrative Assistant
Maren Detlefs – Art Manager & Reader
Patrick Edinger – Features Writer & Board Administrator
Shannon Stockdale-Elftman – Feature Writer
Marleigh Green – Editorial Assistant & Social Media Manager
Natalie Intihar – Communications & Administrative Assistant
“Writing fiction is easy- just start writing about yourself and don’t stop yourself from lying.”
Natia Kirvalidze – Copy Editor
Keera Lydon – Reader
Amira Mazzawy – Submissions Manager
Casey McCarthy – Editorial Assistant & Website Design Manager
Katie McGuire – Reader
Clarissa McLaughlin – Copy Editor & Art Judge & Board Chair
Ella Miller – Reader
Amber Morrison – Reader
Dikshya Pattnaik – Layout Assistant
Ember-Reece Richardson – Copy Editor
Jen Sexton-Riley – Editorial Assistant & Art Judge & Board Member
Melody Rivas – Communications and Administrative Manager
Tess Rossi – Copy Chief
K. R. Stanley – 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
Logan Ward – Design and Layout Manager & Art Judge
Wei Zhao – Art Judge & Reader