Travis Sharp

Executive Editor

• Mail

Travis Sharp is the author of the poetry collections Monoculture (Unicorn Press 2024) and Yes, I am a corpse flower (Knife Fork Book 2021) and the chapbooks Now When, a Poem (above/ground press 2026), Behind the Poet Reading Their Poem Is a Sign Saying Applause (Knife Fork Book 2022), and Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press 2018). He teaches in the writing program at Howard University.

Meagan Wilson

Managing Editor

• Mail

Meagan Wilson holds a PhD from the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, where she completed her dissertation on the presence and persistence of grasses in contemporary American poetry. She also holds an MA from Colorado State University, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work can be found in Modern Language Studies, Colorado Review, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. Meagan currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland where she works in academic publishing.

B Bastie

Assistant Managing Editor

• Mail

B is a teacher and poet living in Philadelphia. Their recent work can be found in Trilobite and Zona Motel.

Katie Naughton

Senior Editor

• Mail

Katie Naughton is the author of the chapbook Study (above/ground press, 2021) and “a second singing” (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jubilat, and elsewhere and she is at work on two collections of poems, “Debt Ritual” and “The Real Ethereal.” She is the publicity editor for Essay Press, an editor at the HOW(ever) and How2 Digital Archive Project (launching in 2022), and founder of Etcetera, a web journal of reading recommendations from poets (www.etceterapoetry.com). She is currently living in Vancouver, BC, as a recipient of a Fulbright Canada student research grant at Simon Fraser University and is a doctoral candidate in English and a member of the Poetics program at SUNY Buffalo.

Fani Avramopoulou

Outreach Director Publisher, asides // besides

• Mail

Fani Avramopoulou is a Philadelphia-based writer with roots in Baltimore and Athens, Greece. She studies and teaches poetry at Temple University. Her work is concerned with the intersections of poetry and science and the poetics and politics of (mis)translation.

Blair Johnson

Design and Web Director

• Mail

Blair Johnson is a poet and PhD candidate in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems have been published in Diagram, Boston Review, and Best American Experimental Writing. In collaboration with her partner Luke Williams, she makes code poems and handmade books.

elliott horowitz

Assistant Editor

• Mail

Like you, elliott horowitz is a living-breathing assemblage of all they’ve encountered in this earthly realm. They teach poetry and composition at Temple University, where they earned their MFA in Creative Writing, and are a librarian at the Community College of Philadelphia. Their writing can be found in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.