Executive
Dani Hedlund
Founder & CEO
Helen Maimaris
COO
Jon Schindehette
Chief Marketing Officer
Leadership
Mia Herman
Outreach Director
Andrew Jimenez
Publishing Director
Evan Sheldon
Editorial Director
Senior
Amanda Farbanish
Marketing Assistant
Kenneth Fleming
Outreach Coordinator
Sam Gladstone
IT Officer
Kaley Kiermayr
Internship Supervisor
Stefanie Molina
Managing Web Editor & Grant Writer
Anna Suszynski
Poetry Editor & Trainer
Associate
Suzie Bartholomew
Outreach Assistant
Mac Bowers
Education Assistant
Johnny Caputo
Education Specialist
Ariel Fagiola
Assistant Editor
Maribel Leddy
Assistant Editor
Dylan Louis
Outreach Assistant
Zoe Nepolello
Marketing Assistant
Jordan Ryder
Outreach Assistant
Eileen Silverthorn
Assistant Editor
Natalie Wyatt
Frames Prison Program Instructor
Kristen Zory King
Grant Writer
Junior
Chase Bailey
Marketing Assistant
Emily Brill-Holland
Junior Editor
Thomas Chisholm
Junior Editor
Rebecca Hannigan
Junior Editor
Madeline Hosack
Junior Editor
Carolyn Janecek
Junior Editor
Alyssa Jordan
Editorial Correspondent
Lauren Lopez
Junior Editor
Kaitlin Lounsberry
Junior Editor
Sonya Minner
Research Assistant
Samantha Samakande
Junior Editor
Intern
Venus Davis
Intern
Viengsamai Fetters
Intern
Ally Geist
Intern
Abi Mechley
Intern
Jaclyn Morken
Intern
Consultant
Ejiwa Ebenebe
Website Artist
Asa C. Garber
Legal Advisor
Zach Howard
Prison Book Art Director & Co-Creator
Michelle Lockamy
Website Artist
Drew Nolte
Web Designer
Mike Raicht
Prison Story Development Consultant
Board
Suzanne Hickox
US Board Member
Jennifer Leong
US Board Member
Ian Leprino
US Board Member
Vivian Marr
UK Trustee
Harriet Moll
UK Trustee
Catherine Stihler OBE
UK Trustee
Harriet Moll
UK Trustee
Harriet worked for fifteen years as a TV journalist for Bloomberg, CNBC and MTV in London and in Italy before returning to her home country of Scotland to take up a fundraising role with a housing charity. Now, as Creative Director at Charlotte Street Partners, she works with businesses and charities from around the world to help them tell their stories so that everyone can understand. She is a proud bookworm, mum of two boys, Iyengar yogini, and novice mountain biker.
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Ally Geist
Intern
Ally is a quirky little Canuck living in Toronto, Canada (yes, they do have a lot of maple syrup up there!). She graduated with a BA in Theatre Studies (specializing in Playwriting and Dramaturgy) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She also has a post-grad certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. When Ally is not reading, crying over cute puppy videos on the internet, defending the merits of the Oxford comma, or watching reruns of Schitts Creek, she is most likely lip-synching for her life in her bedroom, pretending she is one of the fabulous Drag Race queens.
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Venus Davis
Intern
Venus Davis is a 20-year-old, nonbinary writer and freelance editor from Cleveland, Ohio. They are a former poetry reader for Random Sample Review and a social media content creator for Ayaskala. Venus is a regular contributor for Marias at Sampaguitas and Ayaskala, and their work has been featured in InQluded, Ayaskala, and Marias at Sampaguitas. Aside from writing, they love learning about philosophy, astrology, and the Korean language. They also play guitar, ukulele, and piano for fun sometimes. Their main goal is to be confessional and compassionate in their writing and in life.
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Viengsamai Fetters
Intern
Viengsamai (wing-sum-eye) is an avid daydreamer studying literature (and some other things) at Miami University in Ohio. They spend their spare time noodling on the cello, trying out new things in the kitchen, and playing D&D and other games with an ever-growing group of friends. They also wish they spent more time with cats on their lap. Viengsamai has been an avid reader and writer their whole life, and the first story they wrote was about a goldfish named King Ketchup.
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Jaclyn Morken
Intern
Jaclyn is an emerging author and editor from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She just received her MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan, where she also completed a BA Hons in English. Her work can be found in antilang no. 1, Dually Noted (March 2019), and River Volta Review of Books. Jaclyn writes fantasy and speculative fiction.
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Abi Mechley
Intern
Abi Mechley is an editor, writer, and animator currently based in Cincinnati. She graduated with a BA in professional writing and strategic communication from Miami University in 2018. She has a passion for writing in all forms. With little time for boredom, she takes on new challenges as often as she can, including editing novel manuscripts, getting certified to teach English as a foreign language, and working at the local library simultaneously. The free time she does have is generally spent playing D&D with friends.
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Carolyn Janecek
Junior Editor
Carolyn Janecek is a Czech-American writer who just got their Bachelor of Arts in English at Westminster College, Salt Lake City. Carolyn has worked as a writing consultant, editor-in-chief of ellipsis… literature & art volume 55, and has waded through bright pink waters as a Great Salt Lake Institute publishing intern. Most of the time, you can find her reading, playing Dungeons & Dragons, or getting her hands covered in glitter at the nearest Sephora. Carolyn hopes to pursue a poetry MFA in the near future.
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Catherine Stihler OBE
UK Trustee
Catherine is the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a global not for profit advocating for a fair, free, and open future.
For 20 years she represented Scotland in the European Parliament where she was recognized for her digital policy leadership and as an ambassador for public libraries, accessibility, and citizens rights.
In 2014 she was elected unopposed as the 52nd Rector of the University of St Andrews, being awarded an honorary doctorate in 2018.
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Samantha Samakande
Junior Editor
Samantha Samakande graduated from Allegheny College with a BA in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Community and Justice Studies (a.k.a Values, Ethics and Social Action). She chooses to exist in the margins, among those that speak the languages of struggle and resistance, justice and witness, love and resilience. Her lifelong love affair with literature, as well as her experience as an immigrant, existing in the borderlands of things, have made her a poet—an observer, a listener, and a storyteller.
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Natalie Wyatt
Frames Prison Program Instructor
Natalie moved to Denver in the fall of 2018 after being born and raised in Northern California. She received her BA in Anthropology from Saint Mary’s College of CA and is now getting her Master in Curriculum and Instruction from The Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. With a mantra of feeding the mind, body and soul, when Natalie is not in school learning or sharing her love for learning, you can find her spending time outdoors, taking photos, baking, or exploring new coffee shops and breweries.
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Ejiwa Ebenebe
Website Artist
Ejiwa Ebenebe (called Edge by most) is a Nigerian-Canadian artist creating ornate, figurative illustrations. Though she currently lives in Canada, Edge grew up in varying places across the globe, gifting her with a variety of experiences that deeply influence her creative work. Themes such as mystery, horror, whimsy, and opulence combine within her work in varying degrees (no doubt nurtured by a steady diet of fairytales, folklore, whodunnits and ghost stories throughout her childhood).
In addition to creating beautiful things, Edge is focused on adding to the representation of black, LGBTQ women in the creative world. Her work has featured in varying publications including ImagineFX Magazine, Spectrum and Brink’s very own F(r)iction.
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Madeline Hosack
Junior Editor
Madeline Hosack is a bookseller and freelance writer/editor who currently lives in Denver, Colorado. She studied English at the University of Georgia and received her certificate in Publishing from the University of Denver; she now spends her free time reading all kinds of books (although she’s particularly fond of novels—don’t tell the others), trying to cook in her tiny studio apartment, and enjoying Colorado’s ample wide, open spaces. But mostly reading.
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Emily Brill-Holland
Junior Editor
Emily is a proud Kiwi, hailing from Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is a real-life Bard, spending her time immersed in stories, whether it be reading, editing, writing, running her DnD campaigns, or acting/producing/directing stage and film. Or talking the ears off her friends and family. When she’s not soaking in stories, you can find her out in the wilderness, enjoying everything Nature has to offer.
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Chase Bailey
Marketing Assistant
Chase (Chasé) Bailey is a writer-editor based in Columbus, Ohio, and a recent graduate from Miami University with a BA in professional and creative writing. His research interests lie in the overlap of the writing process and identity.
Currently, Chasé is working on a novel about queer witches, crafting spells and catching astral currents to places unknown. Some permutation of a crow and a house cat in a human body, he is a collector of beautiful things: books, small rocks, and stories. Look around, there is magic to be found in everything.
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Kristen Zory King
Grant Writer
Kristen Zory King is a writer and artist facilitator based in Washington, DC. She is a 2019 recipient of an Arts and Humanities Fellowship through the DCCAH and a 5th Woman Fellow. A passionate advocate for the arts and community, Kris is the founder of MoonLit, an organization that aims to “creatively connect community through low cost arts based programming.” Kris is grateful to have spent her previous professional years working, consulting, and volunteering with literary institutions such as Brink Literacy Project, Busboys and Poets, Writers & Books, The Writer’s Block, the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Writer’s Center, VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, Shade Mountain Press, and LitNet: A Literary Network.
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Vivian Marr
UK Trustee
Discovering words and language, and finding out what words mean and how they are used in multiple languages, are what fires Vivian’s career. She has been involved in dictionary-making for nearly three decades, working for some of the world’s most iconic dictionary publishers, with most of her time spent at Oxford University Press. Starting out as an editor on dictionaries for the print market, she is now firmly fixed in the digital world, leading the teams of lexicographers and editors who are responsible for creating and acquiring lexical content for use in all of Oxford Dictionaries’ publishing and licensing activities. This includes the pioneering Oxford Global Languages program, which seeks to bring universal human communication ever closer. Proud of her Scottish roots in an Aberdeenshire farming family, she currently divides her time between Edinburgh and Oxford, and loves socializing in both places.
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Asa C. Garber
Legal Advisor
Like many writers, Asa spends most of his time writing drafts, then editing to the point of loving, then hating, then loving what he’s written. A select few read and appreciate his work; the general public either ignores or does not understand it. But such is the life of a lawyer. Asa is a partner at McCarthy Garber Law, LLC, where he provides legal services to businesses, from start-ups to established ventures, and also represents clients with appeals and litigation. He is a proud supporter of Brink’s many good works.
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Zach Howard
Prison Book Art Director & Co-Creator
Zach Howard is a freelance professional illustrator of seventeen years. His most notable employers include Marvel, Disney, DC, Warner Bros., Image, IDW, Boom, Simon & Schuster, Webtoons, and Steve Jackson Games. Zach’s most popular projects are Wild Blue Yonder, Shaun of the Dead, Spiderman, Wolverines, GI Joe, The Cape, and Detective Comics. He has been nominated for an Eisner award, multiple Indie awards, and received an Amazon Book of the Month selection for Wild Blue Yonder. In addition to his professional work, Zach is passionate about supporting young artists and has dedicated much of his time to helping nurture the next generation of creators.
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Mike Raicht
Prison Story Development Consultant
Mike Raicht is a writer whose creator-owned comic book works include Wild Blue Yonder, Tree Mail, Caster, The Pack, and The Stuff of Legend, which launched on the New York Times Best Selling Paperback Graphic Novel list. He has also written stories for multiple publishers, including Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, IDW, Dynamite, and Th3rd World Studios. Raicht is also the co-founder of Noble Transmission and a former Marvel Comics editor. He is currently an adjunct professor at SUNY Oswego teaching classes focused on creative writing, graphic novels, and film studies.
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Michelle Lockamy
Website Artist
Michelle Lockamy is an award-winning illustrator sailing between the realms of kidlit and fantasy illustration. Inspired by nature, fairytales, and art history, she aims to bring meaningful stories into the world that will help people remember how beautiful it is. She believes it is her duty as a visual storyteller to contribute to the dialogue of our human condition. Her work has shown in Philadelphia and New York and has appeared in a variety of publications and games.
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Drew Nolte
Web Designer
Drew Nolte is a professional designer who decided to take time off work and get an MFA in poetry. Using his web and design knowledge, he looks for projects and opportunities to help the literary world anyway he can. He has been a marketing designer, college web designer, partner in a ruby on rails company, and now leading design for a luxury travel company.
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Kaitlin Lounsberry
Junior Editor
Kaitlin Lounsberry graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a minor in fiction writing. She has bylines in publications such as The State Journal-Register, The Columbia Chronicle, Pop’Stache, and Chicago Talks. Kaitlin is a managing editor for The Garcia Boy to be published through Big Shoulders Books. She has managed social media accounts for AARP Illinois and Saint Clement Parish. She is currently working towards her Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University.
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Jordan Ryder
Outreach Assistant
Jordan Ryder is an editor and writer living in Toronto, Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in Literature and Publishing from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Currently, Jordan works as an Editorial Assistant at Canadian Scholars in Toronto, Canada, in addition to her role at the Brink Literacy Project. Jordan’s short fiction has most recently been published in Blank Spaces Magazine, where she won their Writing Prompt Challenge. She writes whenever she can and is adamant that a manuscript is on its way.
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Thomas Chisholm
Junior Editor
Thomas Chisholm is a creative writer, editor, zine-maker, and an alumnus of The Evergreen State College. Though originally from the Metro-Detroit area, he’s called the lands and seas of Puget Sound home since 2009. Primarily residing in Seattle, he blogs about music at Three Imaginary Girls and is working on comics with a creative partner. His creative work has appeared in Inkwell and Vanishing Point Magazine.
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Jennifer Leong
US Board Member
Jennifer is a Calirado native (a person born in California that now lives in Colorado) who leads a Fortune 100 global marketing team by day and sits on Brink’s Board of Directors, also by day (her days are long). She’s passionate about creating community and bringing people together for a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Her obsessions include rock climbing, coffee, traveling, and storytelling.
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Ian Leprino
US Board Member
As a graduate from the Denver School of the Arts, Ian Leprino has been impacting the Denver art scene from a young age. Since then, he’s gone on to develop a career in business, dance, and philanthropy. With more than eleven years of experience in business management and development, Ian owns and operates Ovation Academy of Dance and works as the COO of Leprino Home Inc. In his free time, he contributes his expertise to an array of Denver-based nonprofits (though Brink is his favorite), fighting for the importance of art in our community.
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Jon Schindehette
Chief Marketing Officer
Jon is a veteran of the marketing, gaming and publishing industries. Through the years, he has worked with clients such as: Disney, Fox Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, ThinkGeek, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft, Kodak, Price Waterhouse, Atari, Activision, Nintendo, Pokémon, Sony Entertainment, CBS, Bioware, Bethesda SoftWorks, Crystal Dynamics, and many more. In his spare time, Jon creates lots of sawdust while building fun woodworking projects.
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Suzanne Hickox
US Board Member
Suzanne’s real estate career began in the late 80s, when she started buying distressed properties, renovating, and reselling for a profit. Suzanne has also managed large REO portfolios for Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Chase, Wilshire Capital, Ocwen and Barclays. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Children’s Advocacy Center in Colorado Springs, and is currently on the Business Development Committee for the Rocky Mountain MS Center. Suzanne also has a BS degree from the University of Northern Colorado, is married to the wonderful Steve, and has several incredible children along with many amazing family members.
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Mac Bowers
Education Assistant
Mackenzie, or Mac as most people call her, is going into her senior year at Susquehanna University, where she is studying Creative Writing and Publishing and Editing. She is from Pennsylvania, but after spending only a semester in Scotland, she will tell you all about Stirling before she will even mention her hometown. Between frequent bouts of existential crises, she enjoys writing weird stories and making low-quality YouTube videos while sipping on far too many cups of coffee.
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Eileen Silverthorn
Assistant Editor
Eileen is a bookseller at the Tattered Cover in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Colorado State University with a BA in English Creative Writing and minors in History and Women’s Interdisciplinary Studies. Inspired by her work with CSU’s undergraduate literary magazine Greyrock Review, Eileen decided to explore a career in publishing through the Denver Publishing Institute. She enjoys spending her time traveling, editing her friends’ fanfiction, reading ten books at once, spending her whole paycheck at her place of employment, and cuddling her cats whilst writing bios about herself in the third person.
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Ariel Fagiola
Assistant Editor
Ariel Fagiola currently lives in Denver, Colorado, where she received her BA in English from the University of Denver and graduated from the Denver Publishing Institute. Her time is spent adoring her dog, reading, suggesting (kindly) to others what they should read, and trying to balance living in a city with spending enough time wandering in the mountains.
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Helen Maimaris
COO
Helen Maimaris holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK. When she’s not madly consuming any comic she can get her hands on, she oversees Brink’s large scale projects and heads up staff management. Helen is also responsible for growing Brink’s nonprofit fund development and strategic planning in collaboration with Dani (Brink’s CEO).
Helen also has experience editing fiction and comics as well as art directing. She lives in Norwich, UK, and has traveled extensively, with past adventures including training as a professional scuba diving guide, participating in scientific fieldwork with humpback whales in Ecuador, and assisting at a rainforest animal rehabilitation center in Bolivia.
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Dani Hedlund
Founder & CEO
After the publication of her first novel at the age of eighteen, Dani Hedlund founded the international literary nonprofit Brink Literacy Project (formerly Tethered by Letters). Over the course of the last decade, Brink has grown into one of the largest independently-funded literary nonprofits in the nation, with bases across the US, UK, and Southeast Asia. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of F(r)iction, an art and literary collection specializing in boundary-defying work. Since its inception in 2015, F(r)iction has risen to critical acclaim, becoming one of the fastest growing literary journals in the world. In her ever-elusive free time, Dani lectures about the ins and outs of the publishing industry, writes very weird fiction, and runs a strange little board game company called Bad Hipster Games.
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Mia Herman
Outreach Director
Mia Herman is a writer and editor living in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Barren Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Ghost City Review, Literary Mama, and Third Coast, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hofstra University and serves as the Creative Nonfiction Editor for F(r)iction as well as the Outreach Director for Brink Literacy Project. When she’s not writing or editing, Mia is most likely a) curating road-trip playlists, b) watching obscene amounts of reality TV, or c) setting her friends up on blind dates.
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Andrew Jimenez
Publishing Director
Andrew Jimenez is a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His nonfiction work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review Daily, Luna Luna, and Curlew Magazine. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and is currently working on a novel about the early life of Abraham Lincoln.
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Kaley Kiermayr
Internship Supervisor
Kaley Kiermayr is a Phoenix-based editor, social media manager, and marketer. She studied Literature at Franklin University Switzerland and received her Publishing MA at Emerson College. In her downtime, she enjoys weekend trips and getting involved with LGBTQ+ literature and writing projects.
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Johnny Caputo
Education Specialist
Johnny Caputo is a pirate, but only part time. He spends the rest of his time teaching, reading comic books, going for the occasional guilt-inspired run, and writing. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in 2016. His work is forthcoming in The Pea River Journal and the collaborative novel Eslyd’s Awakening. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where there is plenty of loot to be plundered and grog to be drunk.
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Amanda Farbanish
Marketing Assistant
Amanda Farbanish is a recent graduate from Drew University, boasting an English degree with a concentration in communications and media, a writing minor, and an Asian studies minor—yes, it is quite the mouthful. A lover of words, felines, and the sound of summer thunderstorms, she is a writer and editor who makes a habit of talking about both whenever possible. When she’s not working as a production editorial assistant at Diversion Books, she is chasing her cat around the house to force it to listen to her newest YA novel idea or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
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Sam Gladstone
IT Officer
Sam gave up studying English at the age of sixteen and would never have guessed that he would end up involved with an organization like Brink! Instead, he specializes in the languages of machines, working as a full stack developer by day and helping Brink with any tech-related queries at all times in between. He graduated with a Master of Mathematics from the University of East Anglia and is a passionate diver, helping to introduce people to the underwater world at a local club in Norfolk, UK.
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Alyssa Jordan
Editorial Correspondent
Alyssa Jordan is a freelance writer in California. Her work has appeared in publications like Every Day Fiction, Reflex Fiction, 100 Word Story, and CHEAP POP. She may or may not be addicted to stories about reapers, particularly ones with food addictions.
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Stefanie Molina
Managing Web Editor & Grant Writer
Stefanie lives in California in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a freelance developmental editor specializing in fantasy and romance. She earned her BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a BA in Communications from the University of California at Davis. She’s one of those maddening people who buys five new books and then rereads Harry Potter instead. These days, Stefanie is more focused on editing than writing, but between projects she is steadily building a pile of half-finished stories and hopes (someday!) to complete one.
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Anna Suszynski
Poetry Editor & Trainer
Anna currently lives in Denver, Colorado, although she is known to pick up and leave to live in faraway places (the last city she lived in was Da Nang, Vietnam). She graduated from Colorado College with an English major, Creative Writing track. You might be wondering how you pronounce her last name, and she wants you to know this easy jingle: Sue broke her Shin on the Ski mountain (sue-shin-ski). Anna loves to ski, hike, read, write magical realism, and help her mom in the studio.
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Suzie Bartholomew
Outreach Assistant
Suzie Bartholomew earned her BA in English from Purdue University North Central (now Northwest) and her MFA from Butler University. Due to her love of the English language, she has worked in two bookstores and her undergrad’s writing center, was the editor for her school’s newspaper, and was also a reader for Booth Magazine at Butler. She is a self-proclaimed nerd with a love of knowledge and the arts. She also enjoys bringing literature to life by acting in plays such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Part 1, Taming of the Shrew, and God of Carnage. When she’s not writing or reading sci-fi and fantasy novels, she loves to watch anything on TV that has to do with the paranormal, cook, spend time with friends, and cuddle with her cat.
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Kenneth Fleming
Outreach Coordinator
Kenneth A. Fleming is a fiction writer and editor living in Maryland. He holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. His short fiction has been a top finalist in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters and Pleiades Experimental Writing contest. He has work forthcoming in the Delmarva Review. He is also an associate editor for the Potomac Review.
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Maribel Leddy
Assistant Editor
Maribel Leddy is a recent graduate from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Writing Seminars. She’s originally from Buffalo, New York, but she now lives in NYC with her best friend. She enjoys going to coffee shops to write, exploring the city, discovering new restaurants, and editing fiction.
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Dylan Louis
Outreach Assistant
Dylan is a native Ohioan who spends a quarter of every year on the road. He is an MFA student at the University of Alaska, where he studies fiction, and he spends the school years teaching ninth graders how to love Shakespeare. He lives in Cleveland, where the lake-effect snow falls like cotton and he can frequent the best taco shack in North America. In the summer, you can find him riding his Triumph Bonneville through the Cuyahoga Valley or writing short stories about the time he lived off grid in bush Alaska.
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Zoe Nepolello
Marketing Assistant
Zoe Nepolello graduated from DePaul University with a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. When not focused on her editorial duties, she’s devouring any YA novel she can get her hands on or writing her own. She dreams of her future home library, buying every edition of her favorite novels and series, and the dragon she’s determined to one day own—that is, if her massive TBR pile doesn’t crush her first. You can find some of her fiction work in Crook & Folly.
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Evan Sheldon
Editorial Director
Evan lives in Denver, CO and is a graduate from the Denver Publishing Institute. He is the author of Shed the Midnight (Ghost City Press, 2019). His creative work has appeared in over forty different publications and has been translated into Russian. When he is not writing or editing, he is most likely reading to his young daughter or studying the history of weird literature and fairy tales.
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Rebecca Hannigan
Junior Editor
Rebecca Hannigan studied creative writing at the University of the South, where she received the Bain Swiggett Prize for Poetry and attended the Writers’ Conference. Her fiction can be found in wigleaf, Juked, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Stain’d, and elsewhere. She lives in Denver.
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Lauren Lopez
Junior Editor
Lauren Lopez was probably absent the day they taught the meaning of the word “no” in school. They graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. They got their start making construction paper books about a dog but abandoned that dream somewhere between learning they couldn’t draw and discovering the Internet. They spend most of their spare time making greeting cards, yelling about the gays, and cursing about baseball.
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Sonya Minner
Research Assistant
Sonya Minner is a self-proclaimed writer from western Pennsylvania. She successfully graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing in 2015. Since then, she’s bounced around from place to place. She currently works in an office by day and writes YA fiction (and sometimes hockey articles) by night. If she’s not writing, she’s probably tweeting. One day, she hopes to pay off her student loan debt and publish a best-selling YA novel, just maybe not in that order.
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