Alisson Wood Founder/Editor-in-Chief

Amanda Claire Buckley, Prose Editor

Peach Kander, Poetry Editor

Rose Meriam, Art Editor

Sarah Jane Cody, Prose Assistant Editor

Janelle Tan, Poetry Assistant Editor

Gianna Gaetano, Editorial Assistant

Karinya Ghiara, Copy Editor

Joanna Bettelheim, Social Media Manager

Brianne Allen, Reader

Nikki Ervice, Reader

Emmy Favilla, Reader

Sophia Holtz, Reader

Nicole Im, Reader

Leigh Sugar, Reader

Clara Waldheim, Reader

Madeleine Mori, Founding Poetry Editor

Ashley Lopez Co-Founder/Founding Managing Editor Alyssa Matesic Co-Founding Editor

Friends of the Nest: Hannah Bae, Jiordan Castle, Debra Gerstner, Hannah Hirsch, Nancy DiNardo, Mica Schlosser, Luna Adler, and Hannah Silverman

Alisson Wood’s award-winning writing has been published in the New York Times, The Paris Review, The Rumpus, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Alisson holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University and teaches creative writing. Being Lolita: A Memoir was published in 2020 from Flatiron Books at Macmillan, She believes pigeons are the most underloved birds of all.

Peach Kander is a queer poet and dioramist who received an MFA in poetry from NYU, where they served as the poetry editor at Washington Square Review. Their chapbook MAGIC BOX was published in May 2022 by Ursus Americanus Press. As a child, they had two parakeets named Larry and Mo.

Amanda Claire Buckley is a writer, editor, and educator. She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is chipping away on a collection of short stories. When she was a child, she owned a cockatiel who became obsessed with a parakeet in a nearby cage. The cockatiel started laying unfertilized eggs, but the relationship never took off. Amanda can be found online @aclairebuckley.

Sarah Jane Cody’s writing has appeared in publications such as The Common, Gulf Coast, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. You can find her on Twitter @sarahjanecody. Her favorite pigeons are the babies, aka “squeakers,” which she got to hand-feed during her time volunteering at the Wild Bird Fund in the Upper West Side.

Janelle Tan was born in Singapore and lives in Brooklyn. She earned her MFA from NYU, and founded Ninth House, a poetry school for children. She is terrified of birds in large flocks, including pigeons. You can find her at janelle-tan.com.

Karinya Ghiara is a bookworm, director, and dramaturge originally from San Diego. She holds a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia. A parrot in her building regularly wakes her up with its incessant squawking. She wishes her neighbor had a pet pigeon instead. 

Joanna Bettelheim received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College but still communicates best in GIFs. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree, Exposition Review's Flash 405, Breadcrumbs Magazine, no. 2 magazine, Mom Egg Review, Overheard, and ELJ Editions’ Lose Yourself: I <3 the Aughties anthology. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @thewelllostmind. Her cat and noted pigeon enthusiast Moonpie is her most supportive editor. She can be found on Instagram at @calicomoonpie.

Gianna Gaetano is a writer from New Jersey and South Carolina. She is a fiction candidate at Ohio State University, where she is pursing her MFA in Writing. She also serves as an associate fiction editor for The Journal. Her favorite bird is the burrowing owl.

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