Editorial Team

(Editor) Twila Liggitt (she/her) brings 15 years of writing experience as an articulate writer, editor, communicator, and expert in producing compelling storytelling for global audiences. She’s worked as a music and food writer in both Los Angeles and New York City, has been published in Forbes, led the content teams at Pandora Music, and founded a digital content agency. She’s an avid reader of over 100 books per year and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, and pet bunny.

(Production Manager) Jennifer A Sutherland (she/her) is the author of Bullet Points: A Lyric, finalist for Foreword Indies Poetry Book of the Year, and the forthcoming collection, House of Myth and Necessity, both from River River Books. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in Plume, Arcturus, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore. 

(Community Presence and Outreach) Nikki “db” Fragala Barnes (they/she, @bynikkibarnes) is an experimental poet. An arts activist and community educator, Barnes holds a PhD in Texts and Technology, specializing in Editing, Publishing, and Interdisciplinary Curating and an MFA in Poetry in the Expanded Field. Barnes widens doors and discourse with their transdisciplinary and collaborative work. They are a researcher and lecturer, teaching poetry writing and fiction workshops. Barnes’ research braids critical making, communal pedagogies, Black trans feminisms, Indigenous methods, and museum studies in a site-sensitive practice of contemporary poetics. Recent scholarly work appears in Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies. Recent creative work appears in the anthologies, Cadence and Sunflowers Rising, and the state of Florida’s flagship literary journal, Of Poets and Poetry. Barnes serves as the inaugural Education Ambassador for the Florida State Poetry Society, on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and on the board of directors at the Central Florida LGBTQ Museum of History, the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, and the Mennello Museum of American Art.