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Editor-in-Chief
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is a writer from Maryland by way of Brussels and Berlin. They are the author of the collection Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) and the chapbook Small Geometries (Ethel, 2023.) The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, their work has been published or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Adroit Journal, Crazyhorse, Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. They’ve been nominated for Best New Poets and Best of the Net, and are a third year in the program. You can find more of their work at www.kathrynbrattpfotenhauer.com.
Managing Editor & Art editor
Mary DiPrete is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry with roots in the deep woods of Oregon, the islands of the Puget Sound, and the prairies of Western Illinois. She received her BA in English literature with minors in philosophy and film studies from Knox College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the literary theory magazine The Common Room. Her poems are interested in the disintegration of presence and absence, spaces of collapse, and haunted sites. She has recently worked as a farmhand, an elementary school arts teacher, a lead pipe surveyor, and at Portland's smallest distillery. Her work has appeared in Peach, is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, and is mostly about gas stations and bat embryos.
Fiction Editor
Kayleigh Ford is a fiction writer and Baltimore native whose creative interests lie in the physical and emotional female body, repression, convention, anger, and desire. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in spring of 2021 with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in French. A recipient of the Morse Hamilton Fiction Writing Prize and the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award, her undergraduate senior honors thesis was comprised of a collection of short stories. She continues to work on her short fiction at the MFA program. Her Substack newsletter, “clueless loving” is a catalogue of her personal and spiritual life and is published weekly. She is the current fiction editor for Salt Hill Journal.
fiction assistants
Kira Yates is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction at Syracuse University. She is delighted by oddity: her work sits at the intersection of humor and horror with its hazard lights on. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in English and Religious Studies in 2019, where she was awarded the Barbara Benson Short Story Prize and the Jean Sudrann '39 Award for her work in creative writing. In 2020, she published a nonfiction piece in Lilith Magazine. She is writing a novel and a collection of short stories and works hard to give her cat and four guinea pigs a happy life.
Ocean A Noah is originally from Los Angeles. Ocean is a Biracial Jew pursuing their MFA in fiction. Ocean edits for Salt Hill, instructs undergraduate writing classes, and they are currently working on a weird novel.
Poetry Editor
Lily Holloway was raised on deep-fried mushrooms in South New Brighton, Ōtautahi. Their first chapbook was published in 2021 as a part of Auckland University Press' AUP New Poets 8. Their other work can be found in places such as Cordite, Hobart After Dark, Peach Mag, Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems, Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ New Zealand Writers, and various other nooks and crannies. You can find more about what they're up to at lilyholloway.co.nz or on Twitter @milfs4minecraft.
Poetry Assistants
Mary DiPrete is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry with roots in the deep woods of Oregon, the islands of the Puget Sound, and the prairies of Western Illinois. She received her BA in English literature with minors in philosophy and film studies from Knox College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the literary theory magazine The Common Room. Her poems are interested in the disintegration of presence and absence, spaces of collapse, and haunted sites. She has recently worked as a farmhand, an elementary school arts teacher, a lead pipe surveyor, and at Portland's smallest distillery. Her work has appeared in Peach, is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, and is mostly about gas stations and bat embryos.
Jo Clark is a writer from Virginia and a second-year MFA candidate at Syracuse. Her work appears in or is forthcoming from Pidgeonholes, Hooligan Magazine, Whale Road Review, and Volume Poetry, amongst other places. Before coming to Syracuse, she graduated from the University of Virginia. If you’d like to learn more about her and her work, please visit joclarkwriter.com.
Nonfiction Editor
Misha Tentser is the Arizona-born son of Ukrainian immigrants. His poetry and prose have appeared in Back Patio Press, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Terrain.org, and North American Review. Misha is a second-year MFA Candidate in Poetry at Syracuse University, the Nonfiction Editor at Salt Hill Journal, and the author of the chapbook Born in the Wrong Desert (Mouthfeel Press, 2023). Please ask him about tacos al pastor and matcha cheesecake.
reviews & Interviews editors
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is a writer from Maryland by way of Brussels and Berlin. They are the author of the collection Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) and the chapbook Small Geometries (Ethel, 2023.) The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, their work has been published or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Adroit Journal, Crazyhorse, Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. They’ve been nominated for Best New Poets and Best of the Net, and are a third year in the program. You can find more of their work at www.kathrynbrattpfotenhauer.com.
Lily Lauver was last in Galesburg, Illinois. Lately, she writes about grief. She graduated with degrees in English literature and creative writing from Knox College, where she helped found the letterpress studio Prairie Moon Press. Most recently she managed the studio, waitressed and bartended at Budde’s Pizza & Spirits, and manned the Reference Desk at the Galesburg Public Library. Among things, she crochets in miniature.
Readers
Macks Cook (they/them) is a queer poet from Houston, Texas who recently graduated with their Bachelor of Arts in English from Trinity University. Their poetry is often concerned with animals, queerness, ekphrasis, grief and haunted houses. Their most recent work can be found in underblong, The Trinity Review, High Noon and Body Without Organs. They adore their cat, Boo, and large cups of watered-down McDonald’s Coke. You can find Macks on Instagram (@mothmacks).
Aliza Haskal (she/her) recently graduated with her B.A. in English and a University Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has been published by Bullshit Lit, Zoetic Press, The Spectre Review, and The Lunar Journal. Aliza is a poet hailing from Charlottesville, Virginia, from which she has recently absconded to New York. Her poems viscerally and bravely crystallize experiences of mental illness, young love, subsequent heartbreak, and odd things she witnesses on the train. She also experiments with erasure and other creative media such as dance, art, and the piano. She served as lead poetry editor of the Rappahannock Review last year and participated in the NYU Writers in New York Program. Aliza’s upcoming work will be found in Applause Journal.
Dylan Hoffman is a writer, director, and translator based in Syracuse, New York. In his work, he seeks to discover novel combinations of text, image, and character that illuminate the sublimity and absurdity of everyday life. His directing credits include The End of the World (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) and Unstuck (The Tank, New York). He has assistant directed show for Trinacria Theater Company (Sicily, Italy) and the American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA). In 2020, he translated a new adaptation of The Oresteia for the Sardegna Teatro (Cagliari, Italy). He is a 2020 Fulbright Italy English Teaching Assistant grant recipient. He is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University.
Olivia Jacobson is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry at Syracuse University. She is a poet and writer from Sheridan, Indiana. Her poetry is inspired by her childhood, where she raised farm animals on her family’s land and frequented her father’s used car lot. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, FL in 2022. She is also a painter and stained glass artist.
Janie Le is an avid reader. When not reading she likes to write about people undergoing struggles and transformations and the ways they are shaped by others and by their surroundings. Her fiction is often dark and surreal. She is currently a student in Syracuse University's creative writing program.
Hannah Nash is a first-year fiction candidate at Syracuse University. She grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Middlebury College, where she studied English. Since then, she has worked in New York City as a tutor and freelance editor. Her fiction has been published by Indiana Review. She is currently working on a novel.
Web Editor
J.C. Rodriguez is a writer from Long Island. His poetry has appeared in places like Waxwing, Meow Meow Pow Pow, and Brooklyn Poets. He exists online at brownmoon.rip, where he sometimes blogs about his misadventures through the realms of food, video games, and music.
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