ROSS BARKAN
Founder & Editor-IN-CHIEF
Ross Barkan’s newest novel, Glass Century, was published in 2025. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for New York Magazine, and he writes the Substack newsletter Political Currents.
LOU BAHET
Founder & EXECUTIVE Editor
Lou Bahet is at work on a book about family, homecomings, and object histories, set in a New York apartment building. She is a three-time Fellow of The Writers’ Institute and a recent Literary Fellow-in-Residence at its Bogliasco Center program.
DJANGO ELLENHORN
SEnior EDITOR, fiction
Django Ellenhorn is a Fellow at The Writers’ Institute and a graduate of the University of Florida’s fiction MFA program, where he worked with Uwem Akpan, Camille Bordas, Jill Ciment, and David Leavitt. He is at work on a novel.
VANESSA OGLE
senior EDITOR, poetry
Vanessa Ogle is a poet, writer, and educator. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Business Insider, Literary Hub, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Hunter College and lives in New York.
JASON CHATFIELD
CARTOON EDITOR
Jason Chatfield is an Australian cartoonist, author, and comedian. His work has been exhibited internationally and published by The New Yorker, MAD, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins. His Substack, New York Cartoons, was a Featured Publication in 2023 and 2024.
CALLY FIEDOREK
Assistant EDITOR
Cally Fiedorek is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. Her debut novel, Atta Boy, was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She lives in her native New York City with her husband and three kids. She’s currently at work on her second novel.
SARAH WECK
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sarah Weck is a fiction writer and poet with an MFA from Columbia University, where she received the Felipe P. De Alba merit fellowship in Fiction. She has been published in the Colorado Review and the Washington Square Review, and recently attended Casa Lü Sur’s Writing Residency in Mexico City and the Banff Centre Summer Writers’ Residency to work on a novel.
LUKE SULLIVAN
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Luke Sullivan is a writer, educator, and MFA student at the City College of New York. He is the winner of the David Dortort Prize in Creative Nonfiction and is working on a memoir about object histories, love, shame, and desire.
LILYANA TARQUINIO
WRITING FELLOW
Lilyana Tarquinio is a senior at Stony Brook University, pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in English with a Journalism minor. Currently, she is working on her English Honors Capstone project, which focuses on The Matrix and the manosphere. While she’s not hard at work, she likes to spend her free time reading banned books, writing short stories and tending to her plants.
LARA EJZAK
WRITING FELLOW
Lara Ejzak is an undergraduate student at Fordham University, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a minor degree in Spanish. She is the Culture Editor of the Fordham Ram and a columnist for the Fordham Political Review, and is interested in any story revolving around culture and entertainment.