Lauren Frey
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Lauren Frey is a writer based in Portland, OR. She received an MA in English from Georgetown University, where she worked in archives, blowing dust off manuscripts, and was a Lannan Poetry Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in The Inflectionist Review, Dream Pop Press, and others, and her scholarship has been published in Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, and Interpretation, a leading international journal in textual scholarship and material culture.
Marisa Lainson
Founding Managing Editor
Marisa Lainson is a poet from Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she served as Poetry Editor of Faultline Journal of Arts & Letters and was selected as first runner-up for the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Poet Lore, The Pinch, Frontier Poetry, Harbor Review, and Palette Poetry, where they were selected as second runner-up for the 2024 Rising Poet Prize.