Meet Our Team

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leah lives in Denver, where she is very preoccupied with literature, sour beer, friendship, and the Rocky Mountains. Her poetry manuscript With Scissors & a Tiny Saw won the University of Denver’s Mary Cass Award in 2015.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rachel lives in Central NJ with her parents and brother, who, among other things, convinced her to stick her tongue on a C- cell battery when they were kids. She studied creative writing and psychology in college, but dropped the latter when she realized she’d rather analyze fictional people. She spends a lot of her free time reading, daydreaming, and trying not to sound as pithy as she feels. She’s also convinced she’d make an excellent tree.