editorial

Lisa Marie Basile, founding editor-in-chief, is the author of a few books of poetry and nonfiction, including Light Magic for Dark Times, The Magical Writing Grimoire, Nympholepsy, Apocryphal, Andalucia, and more. She’s a health journalist and chronic illness advocate by day. By night, she’s working on an autofictional novella for Clash Books. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, among others. You can find her work in Best Small Fictions, Best American Poetry, and Best American Experimental Writing, The New York Times, The Atlas Review, Spork, Catapult, Entropy, Narratively, and more. She has taught writing or spoken about writing Emerson College, Manhattan College, Pace University, Columbia University, and NYU, among others. She has an MFA from The New School.

former editorial staff
aka the people who made this space into something beautiful over its many years.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Joanna is the author of several collections including A Love Story and η ψυχή, η ψυχή μας/the soul, our soul. They are the illustrator of Dead Tongue, a poetry collection by Bunkong Tuon, and Raven King, a poetry collection by Fox Henry Frazier. Joanna received an MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College and is also the founder of Yes Poetry. One day, Joanna dreams of having a flower and vegetable garden.

Monique Quintana is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary blogazine, Razorhouse. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CSU Fresno, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Huizache, Bordersenses, and The Acentos Review, among others. She is a Squaw Valley Writers Fellow and was the Senior Associate Fiction Editor for The Normal School. She has an affinity for Ray Bans, red lipstick, and Ramón Novarro. She is a Pocha/Chicana identified mother, daughter, sister, lover, and English teacher from central California.

Nadia Gerassimenko is a Web Copy Quality Auditor at The HOTH, former Managing Editor at Luna Luna Magazine, freelancer in editorial services, writer, and visual artist. Nadia graduated from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in 2013 with a Bachelor of Commerce, specializing in Marketing. Nadia has been published in various magazines such as The Mighty, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Yes Poetry, Mookychick, Quail Bell Magazine, FIVE:2:ONE, RESURRECTION Mag, OCCULUM, Memoir Mixtapes, Cotton Xenomorph, Parentheses Journal, The Hellebore, The New England Review of Books, TERSE. Journal, among others.

Kailey Tedesco is the author of These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) and the forthcoming full-length collection, She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications). She is the co-founding editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical and a member of the Poetry Brothel. She received her MFA in creative writing from Arcadia University, and she now teaches literature at several local colleges. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her work in Prelude, Bellevue Literary Review, Sugar House Review, Poetry Quarterly, Hello Giggles, UltraCulture, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com. 

Trista Edwards is poet, land mermaid, light witch, horror enthusiast, creatrix, traveler, and dog lover. She is also the curator and editor of the anthology, Till The Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2015). She is currently working on her first full-length poetry collection but until then you can read her poems at 32 Poems, Quail Bell Magazine, Moonchild Magazine, The Adroit Journal, The Boiler, Queen Mob's Tea House, Bad Pony, and more. She crafts magickal candles at her company, Marvel + Moon

Tiffany Sciacca is a writer who has recently moved to Sicily from the Midwest. Her work has appeared in the Silver Birch Press, SOFTBLOW and DNA Magazine UK. When she is not learning a new language or trying to blend in, she is reading horror anthologies, binging on Nordic Noir or plugging away at her first Giallo screenplay. @EustaceChisholm

Lydia A. Cyrus is a creative nonfiction writer and poet from Huntington, West Virginia. Her work as been featured in Thoreau's Rooster, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Albion Review, and Luna Luna. Her essay "We Love You Anyway," was featured in the 2017 anthology Family Don't End with Blood which chronicles the lives of fans and actors from the television show Supernatural. She lives and works in Huntington where she spends her time being politically active and volunteering. She is a proud Mountain Woman who strives to make positive change in Southern Appalachia. She enjoys the color red and all things Wonder Woman related! You can usually find her walking around the woods and surrounding areas as she strives to find solitude in the natural world.  Twitter: @lydiaacyrus 

Cee Martinez is a Colorado-based writer, musician, and visual artist. She is also a Professional Sad Girl and perpetual tourist. She has been writing and publishing prose, poetry, and fiction for over a decade. She is a former staff writer for Luna Luna Magazine and her work has been published by Ravishly, Deadly Chaps Press, and With Painted Words. Her visual art can be found at her website and you can catch her at her Twitter: @dazedpuckbunny and her Instagram: @silenthallucination33

Nina Morena (Social Media Editor) is a writer and general bookworm from Montreal, Canada. She holds a BA in English Literature and Communication Studies from McGill University, which explains her undying love for TS Eliot. She’s currently getting her MA in Media Studies at Concordia. Her work has appeared in The Odyssey Online, Thrive Global, and ankle (so far). She’s also an embarrassed superfan of Mad Men and John Green novels.

Leza Cantoral is the Editor in Chief of CLASH Books & Black Telephone Magazine. She's the editor of Tragedy Queens & author of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest & Trash Panda. She is working on her upcoming novel Tragedy Town. While not talking to ghosts, she is writing books & running CLASH Books.

Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a New York City-based freelance writer, editor, and occasional professor. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, LARB, NBCThink, VICE, Bustle, Narratively, SELF, Catapult, The Rumpus, Ravishly, and elsewhere. Trish's interests include horror and the Gothic, feminism, mental health, parenting, and representations of mental illness in popular culture. She is the author of Breaking Down Plath (Jossey-Bass), a literary companion on Sylvia Plath for middle and high school students.

**All roles are volunteer at this time.**