Staff

Susannah Jordan (Editor-in-Chief) earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte, where she served as Nonfiction Editorial Assistant for Qu, the school’s literary magazine. She is the author of Calcification, a microchapbook from post ghost press. Her recent work has appeared in TSS Publishing, HuffPost, detritus, and The Drabble. Her visual art has appeared in Not Ghosts, But Spirits IV, Beaver Magazine, The Bangor Literary Journal, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art, 3Elements Literary Review, Cotton Xenomorph, The Green Light, Riggwelter Press, and The Tishman Review.  

Chuck Augello (Contributing Editor) is the author of The Revolving Heart, a Best Books of 2020 selection by Kirkus Reviews. His work has appeared in One Story, SmokeLong Quarterly, Literary Hub, The Coachella Review, and other fine journals. He publishes The Daily Vonnegut, a website exploring the life and art of Kurt Vonnegut. His novel, A Better Heart, was released in November 2021.

H. L. Nelson (Founding Editor) guided the magazine from its inception until August 2016. Her publications include Nightmare, The Big Click, and others. Her story “A Creature Comes Home” was chosen by Kevin Brockmeier for The Masters Review Volume IV anthology. The dark fiction anthology she co-edited, Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up to No Good (Upper Rubber Boot Books), is available now. It includes stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Diane Cook, Cat Rambo, Aimee Bender, Rachel Swirsky, and other badass women. H. L. lives in Dallas (and detests country music and football) with her musician husband, two amazing boys, and a corgi-mix pup named Scruffy “Super Sword.”

Reading Team: January 15-March 15th 2020 

Jack B. Bedell (Guest Poetry Editor) is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Jack’s work has appeared in Southern Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Pidgeonholes, The Shore, Cotton Xenomorph, Okay Donkey,  EcoTheo, The Hopper, Terrain, saltfront, and other journals. His latest collection is No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, 2018). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.

Kate Felix (She/Her) (Fiction Reader) is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine, Litro, and Cream City Review, among others. Her feminist short films have been selected for over fifty independent film festivals worldwide and have won numerous filmmaking and screenwriting awards. She is currently at work on a stage play. She is a reader for The Nasiona and the non-fiction editor for Cauldron Anthology. Find her on Twitter.

Reading Team: August 1st-November 1st 2019 

Dakota Canon (Fiction Reader) is the author of a novel, The Unmaking of Eden, which won the 2019 Caledonia Novel Award, the 2018 Hastings Litfest Crime Novel Competition, and was long-listed in the 2018 Yeovil Literary Prize. She has received placement in the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Writer’s Digest Annual Short Story Contest and the Brilliant Flash competition, and has short work, either published or forthcoming, in Witness, Hobart, Moon City Review, Fiction Southeast, The MacGuffin, Literary Orphans, and Citron Review, among others.

Hannah Grieco (Fiction Reader) is a writer and advocate in Arlington, VA. She has published work in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Hobart, Barren Magazine, Lunch Ticket, and more. Find her online at www.hgrieco.com or on Twitter at @writesloud.

Maritza Mora (Fiction Reader) was born and raised in East Los Angeles. She worked with the nonprofit, bilingual publisher Cubanabooks Press as a translation editor and has published poetry through Honey & Lime literary magazine and Third Point Press, along with CNF through Rose Quartz Magazine. She currently has fiction in the forthcoming issue of Salt Hill Journal. Maritza is Mexican-Salvadoran, an activist, geek & gamer, and a genius, billionaire playboy philanthropist every second Wednesday of the month.

Gage Saylor (Fiction Reader) lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma as a Ph.D. candidate at Oklahoma State University. He has an M.A. and M.F.A. from McNeese State University where he received the Robert Olen Butler Award, Ada Vincent Scholarship, and Paul-Avee Prize. His fiction has appeared in Moon City Review, Passages North, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.

Reading Team: January 1st-April 1st 2019 

Carman C. Curton (Fiction Reader) is now a vegetarian, but once worked on a farm on which she bottle-fed a beautiful calf named Cutlet. She has been published in Snakeskin Poetry Magazine and was a finalist in the Fiction War Fall 2018 contest. Carman consumes caffeine while writing a series of microstories called QuickFics, which she leaves in random places for people to find. You can follow her on Twitter @CarmanCCurton.

Sarah Daniels (Fiction Reader) is an ex-archaeologist writing stories from her home in rural Lincolnshire, UK. Her work has been nominated for Best British And Irish Flash Fiction and Best Small Fictions. When she’s not working on her novel she can be found wrangling three small children. She is represented by Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown. 

Lauren Mead (Fiction Reader) is a secondary school English teacher who has been writing short stories, poems, and novels since she was thirteen. In her spare time, she writes book reviews for her blog, Murmurs in the Margins. Prior to becoming a teacher, she earned her Master of Arts in Literature from Brock University. She is a recent graduate of The Humber School for Writers. Previously, she has been a columnist for The Cannon as well as the fiction editor for Carousel magazine. She is a past recipient of The Milton Acorn Award and she has been published in The Danforth Review and Soliloquies.

Chelsea Stickle (Fiction Reader) writes flash fiction that has appeared in Jellyfish Review, Five on the Fifth, formercactus, Hypnopomp, and Occulum. She lives in Annapolis, MD with her black rabbit George. Find her on Twitter @Chelsea_Stickle.