Alisson Wood Founder/Editor-in-Chief

Amanda Claire Buckley, Prose Editor

Madisen Gummer, Poetry Editor

Karinya Ghiara, Copy Editor

Joanna Bettelheim, Social Media Editor

Muthoni Githinji, Editorial Assistant

Readers: Stephanie Buck, Lu Chekowsky, Ashton Freeman, Nicole Im, Rishona Michael, Kate Peters, Natalie Ponte, Corinne Santiago, and Elizabeth Spenst.

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, Hannah Silverman, Peach Kander, Rose Miriam, Gianna Gaetano, and Sarah Jane Cody.

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 at Drew University. Being Lolita: A Memoir was published in 2020 from Flatiron Books at Macmillan, She believes pigeons are the most underloved birds of all.

Madisen Gummer is a poet from Texas currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Sundog Lit, Bodega Mag, Santa Clara Review, Variant Literature, and elsewhere. She was not allowed to have a pet bird as a child, so she spent her 6th birthday at her local pet store, hanging out with the parrots and parakeets.

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.

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.

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