Meet The Editors
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Editor-in-Chief & FounderLondon Pinkney is a writer and editor.
She obtained a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. In 2021, she was awarded the Debra Plousha Moore Scholarship due to her service to the literary advancement of Black Americans, women, and their intersecting communities.
In 2023, she was a Show US Your Spines resident with RADAR Productions and San Francisco Public Library’s Hormel Center.
Her work can be read in numerous places, including Mirage #5 / Period[ical], Seen and Heard, and OmniVerse. In 2022 her work was featured in the anthology Nonwhite and Woman (Woodhall Press).
She’s a leftie from Los Angeles.
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Managing Editor & Poetry Editor
Carlos Quinteros III is a wandering writer who believes in spreading positivity through productivity. He graduated with an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University in 2023.
He is an award-winning poet and has been published in Humble Pie and Seen and Heard, and self-publishes work through the craft of bookbinding.
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Poetry EditorOli Villescas is an anti-war, baseball-loving poet.
A writer of sorts, proud Chicanx, student and educator. They graduated from San Francisco State University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s in English. They hope to spread happiness and tear down the US/Mexico border by any means necessary.
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Fiction EditorSantos Arteaga is a writer. In 2020 he graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Creative Writing. He writes about and critiques the communities he’s a part of including the Latinx community and the LGBTQ+ community.
His debut short story, “Beach Dwelling Creatures”, was published in Ramblr and won Best Fiction. He’s also worked as an editor for Borderless Zine. In his spare time, he’s either playing video games or lucid dreaming.
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Fiction Editor & Social Media Editor
TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a Queer Black writer born in Modesto, California.
He holds a MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, Tayo Magazine’s special issue: SOFT, Transfer, BAD EGG Magazine, Borderless, The Ana, Stellium Magazine, and Querencia Press. He is a recipient of the Leo Litwalk Literature Award, a Browning Society Award, and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He is the author of the Young Adult novel The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening, and the autofiction short story collection Her Daughters.
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Art EditorMinhee Kim is a writer and artist. They spend their time jumping between poetry, embroidery, and illustration. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Creative Writing.
Her work has been featured in Transfer, Seen and Heard, and The Ana. They spend as much time as they can at museums and theme parks.
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