Meet Our Team

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.

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.

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.

Evan James Sheldon lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and ever-growing horde of dachshunds. When he’s not writing, he is devouring any Southern Gothic literature he can get his hands on. When he grows up, he wants to be a monstrous amalgamation of Gandalf and Flannery O’Connor. He is a recent graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Spelk, Roanoke Review, Silver Needle Press, Speculative 66, and Poetry Super Highway, among others. If he has been drinking, he will try to give away books to anyone foolish enough to make eye contact.