Location: Philadelphia Metro, PA
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Journal ISSN: 2995-6447
Subject: poetry, fiction, chapbooks, criticism, review, interview
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Staff
Aiden Hunt, Creator & Managing Editor
P. Aiden Hunt is a neurodivergent and disabled editor, poet, journalist and publisher. He’s also a literary critic and a proud member of the National Book Critics Circle. His critical writing has been published by The Rumpus, Fugue, On the Seawall, Tupelo Quarterly, Jacket2 and The Adroit Journal, among other venues.
Aiden has created and edited three prior online publications: an activist blog and two cannabis policy news sites. The last of these, Profiles in Legalization, was syndicated by Newstex and NewsBank.
Heather Hoover
Poetry Editor: Issues 12, 13
Heather M. Hoover teaches writing, humanities, literature, and poetry at a liberal arts college in East Tennessee. She is the author If Moon, Then Yes (Dancing Girl Press), strong female protagonist (Finishing Line Press), and Composition as Conversation: Seven Virtues of Effective Writing (Baker Academic). In addition, she has had poems published in many journals and magazines and was nominated in 2025 for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Golden Ratio.” She has been teaching writing for over 25 years, but she has been loving and tending words for as long as she can remember.
Chelsea Cobb
Fiction Editor: Issue 13
Chelsea Cobb is a writer and creative writing instructor with a PhD in English. She teaches creative writing at the college level and works closely with emerging writers through workshops and writing center consultation. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Spectacle Literary Magazine, among others. Her work often explores myth, transformation, and the body through experimental and hybrid forms.
Danielle McMahon
Interviews Editor: Issues 12, 13
Poetry Reader: Issues 11, 12, 13
Contributor: Issue 12 (Interview)
Danielle McMahon is the author of four poetry chapbooks and two micro-chaps. Most recently, her micro-chap rowhouse song is part of the 2025 Ghost City Press Summer Series. Her chapbook irl is now available from Stanchion Books. She is the Editor of the engine(idling.
Meet Our Staff: Danielle McMahon
Micah Marrapodi
Reviews Editor: Issues 12, 13
Micah J. Marrapodi is a writer and editor based in Rhode Island. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Gordon College and an MA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Rhode Island College, where he served as Arts & Entertainment Editor for The Anchor and as a Graduate Assistant in the English department. In fall 2026, he will begin a PhD in American Culture Studies (Critical Studies in Media, Film, and Culture track) at Bowling Green State University as a Presidential Graduate Scholar Fellow. His work has appeared in Response: The Journal of Popular and American Culture, and he has presented at the NEPCA and MAPACA conferences. He writes flash fiction and short stories and authors The Adventure of Human Being on Substack.
D.W. Baker,
Contributing Editor: Issues 12, 13
Poetry Reader: Issues 10, 11, 12, 13
Contributor: Issues 7, 8, 12 (Review)
D.W. Baker is a poet, editor, and teacher from Saint Petersburg, Florida. His poetry appears in Identity Theory, ballast, and Sundog Lit, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. He reads for several mastheads including Variant Lit and Libre.
Meet Our Contributor: D.W. Baker
Herb Kitson
Poetry Reader: Issues 11, 12, 13
Herb Kitson is a poet and professor emeritus in English at the University of Pittsburgh-Titusville. He also worked at the University of Arizona, University of Grenoble (France), New York University, and at the University of South Carolina. His poems have been in The Atlanta Review, Ballast, The Comstock Review, Free Lunch, Penstricken, Poetry East, Witness, Yankee, and others. He and his friend RJ—a lumberjack, contractor, handyman, photographer forty years younger than he—live in western PA.
Lynn Wagner
Poetry Reader: Issues 11, 12, 13
Lynn Wagner is a poet, teacher and editor. She is the author of the chapbook, No Blues This Raucous Song (Slapering Hol Press). Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Subtropics, West Branch, Writers Resist and others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh and lives and writes in Denver, Colorado.
Jeannine Dudzinski
Fiction Reader: Issue 13
Jeannine Dudzinski is a Maryland/DC–based editor and writer. She holds multiple B.A. degrees from the University of Maryland and works professionally as a technical writer and QA editor. She has served as a reader and editor for Flash Fiction Online and has written four novels. She is also a professional astrologer with a long-standing interest in mysticism and symbolic systems. An enthusiastic traveler and unapologetic cat person, she lives with her feline co-editor.
Marianne Filaretou
Fiction Reader: Issue 13
Marianne Filaretou (she/her) is a New York–based writer working in short fiction and criticism, often through fragmented or compressed forms. She has worked in the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art, handling 16mm and 35mm materials and archival systems, which shaped her attention to structure, repetition, and what gets preserved. Marianne reads widely across contemporary short fiction and is especially drawn to work that risks tonal shifts or resists neat resolution. Her editorial approach is patient and direct. She values clarity in response and careful selection. Alongside her writing, she works in radio and in nonprofit cultural contexts in Paris and New York.
Grace Sandall
Fiction Reader: Issue 13
Grace Sandall holds an MA and a BA from the University of Bristol, where she studied English Literature between 2020 and 2024. She specialised in economic humanities, environmental criticism, and early modern literatures, and now enjoys writing on the parallels between contemporary and un-contemporary thought. She has had work published in The Borgen Project, The Good Press, and Fork Apple Press, and is currently a journalist intern, a poetry reader, and a literary enthusiast.
Amanda Simonson
Fiction Reader: Issue 13
Amanda Simonson (she/her) is currently a senior studying literature at The University of Texas at Dallas. She has a passion for reading, literature, and learning, and aspires to work as an editor in the publishing industry after graduation. Amanda is currently a reader for Reunion: The Dallas Review, and she is eager to help artists and authors in the community accomplish their goals.
Emily Lichius
Production Assistant: Issues 11, 12, 13
Emily Lichius is a writer and editor from the Pittsburgh area. Recently, she acted as a Publisher’s Assistant for a pre-press novel at Parisian Phoenix Publishing. She received her B.A. in English, Creative Writing from Eastern University in December 2025.
Zach Omitowoju
Production Assistant: Issue 13
Zach Omitowoju is a writer, poet, literary advocate and creative practitioner whose work explores culture, community and the power of storytelling. He is a former Youth Advisory Board Member for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Research Assistant & panel chair at the Nottingham Creative Writing Hub, and Judge at Nottingham’s Slam-O-Vision. He is passionate about literature and building communities where stories can thrive.
Audrey Kim
Social Media Manager: Issues 12, 13
Audrey Kim is a current student in CT, and an avid reader, writer, and freelance graphic designer. She has had her work published in Delicate Emissions Poetry Zine and Micromance Magazine.
Recent Contributors
Maggie Wang, Issue 13 (Poetry)
Maggie Wang is interested in intertextuality, the environment, and the absurd. She is the author of a chapbook, The Sun on the Tip of a Snail’s Shell (Hazel Press, 2022).
Kait Quinn, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Kait Quinn (she/her) was born with salt in her wounds. She flushes the sting of living by writing poetry. She is the author of five poetry collections, and her work appears in Anti-Heroin Chic, Exposition Review, Full House Literary, and elsewhere. She received first place in table//FEAST’s 2025 Nano & Micro Contest for Women Writers and Sad Girl Diaries’ 2023 Fall Poetry Contest. Kait is an Editorial Associate at Yellow Arrow Publishing. She enjoys cats, repetition, coffee shops, tattoos, and vegan breakfast. Kait lives in Minneapolis with her partner and their very polite Aussie mix.
Meet Our Contributor: Kait Quinn
Nivara Lune, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Nivara Lune is the pen name of a writer and storyteller writing ebooks, blogs, web novels and serialized tales across genres including horror, romance, and supernatural fiction. Her work blends creativity, insight, and engaging storytelling, drawing readers into worlds where suspense, emotion, and hidden truths collide. She explores themes of love, identity, and self-discovery, often with a queer or supernatural twist. Nivara Lune contributes to platforms like Midnight & Indigo, Zoetic Press, Webnovel, and others.
Patricia Wallace, Issue 12 (Poetry)
A poet and critic, Patricia Wallace divides her time between the Hudson River valley and the high desert of Santa Fe. Her work has appeared in River Heron (twice finalist for the Editor’s Prize), RockPaperPoem, PEN America, Third Wednesday, the North Dakota Review, the Sewanee Review, Bosque, and The Iowa Review. For many years, as editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature’s section “Poetry 1944—”, she selected poems from, and wrote critical introductions to, the work of poets she loved. Her essays also appear in The Columbia History of American Poetry and Oxford American’s Literature in Transition.
Andrew Pelham Burn, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Andrew Pelham Burn recently completed an MA in Writing at The University of Galway. His poetry has been published in The Cormorant Broadsheet and The Cormorant Anthology, Scrimshaw, Ropes Literary Journal, New Irish Writing in The Irish Independent, and Stony Thursday Book. He has won the Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize. He lives in the West of Ireland and was a cheesemaker for over fifteen years before taking up writing full time.
Ron Mohring, Issue 12 (Poetry)
Ron Mohring is the author of, most recently, Relative Hearts (Lily Poetry Review) and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees (The Word Works). He lives with his husband and two cats in Cincinnati, where he runs Seven Kitchens Press with unflagging enthusiasm.
Abbey Green, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Abbey Green grew up in Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in Zeniada, Blackbird Arts Journal, and Other People.
Sophia Naz, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Sophia Naz is an interlingual writer, artist and translator. She has authored the poetry collections Bark Archipelago (Weavers Press, San Francisco & Red River India, 2023), Open Zero (Yoda Press 2021), Pointillism (Copper Coin 2017), Date Palms (City Press, 2017), Peripheries (Cyberhex, 2015 ) and Shehnaz, a biography (Penguin Random House, 2019) Her work appears in The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Daily, The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, The Night Heron Barks, Singing in the Dark, Berfrois, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Rattle, The Adirondack Review and many others.
Meet Our Contributor: Sophia Naz
Betty Stanton, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Pushcart nominated writer who lives and teaches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in various anthologies. She received her MFA from the University of Texas – El Paso and also holds a doctorate in educational leadership. She is currently on the editorial board of Ivo Review.
Meet Our Contributor: Betty Stanton
Saudamini Siegrist, Issue 11 (Interview)
Saudamini Siegrist’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Free State Review, december magazine, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Zone 3 and forthcoming in Rattle. She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry. She has a PhD in English literature from New York University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Saudamini lives in New York City and works as a consultant on human rights for the United Nations.
Meet Our Contributor: Saudamini Siegrist
Mary Whitlow, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Mary Whitlow, based in Williamsburg, VA, crafts lyrics from quiet rituals—mailboxes, exam rooms, laundered linen. A former radio commercial writer and newsletter editor, she balances writing with nature walks and fostering animals for the Heritage Humane Society. Her poems have been featured in, or are forthcoming from, Mid-Atlantic Review and Virginia Writers Project.
Colleen S. Harris, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Colleen S. Harris earned her MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and works as a university library dean in Texas. Author of five poetry collections and four chapbooks, her most recent work includes The Discipline of Drowning (winner of the 2025 Broken Tribe Press Poetry Book Award, forthcoming 2026), The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025) and chapbooks Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025) and The Girl and the Gifts (Bottlecap, 2025). Her poetry appears in Berkeley Poetry Review, Wild Roof Journal, The Louisville Review, and more than 150 others.
Abraham Aondoana, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Abraham Aondoana is a writer, poet and novelist. He holds a law degree. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His works has been published in Kalahari Review, Prosetrics Magazine, Rough Diamond Poetry, The Cat Poetry Anthology, IHTOV, The Literary Nest, Ink Sweat and Tears (UK), Rogue Agent, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Interwoven Anthology (Renard Press), Writing on the Wall, Alien Buddha, Blasphemous Journal, Rust Belt Review, Speculative Insights and elsewhere.
Amy Riddell, Issue 11 (Poetry)
Amy Riddell is the author of Bullets in the Jewelry Box, a poetry collection, and Narcissistic Injury, a chapbook. A Pushcart nominee, Amy’s journal publications include The Inflectionist Review, Rust & Moth, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Orchards Journal of Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Misfit Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review.
Past Staff
Shelli Rottschafer, Poetry Reader: Issue 10
Past Contributors
Sandy Feinstein, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Veronica Tucker, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Yasmin Kloth, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Alexandra Burack, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Gerald Yelle, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Gray Davidson Carroll, Issue 10 (Review)
Bryana Fern, Issue 10 (Poetry)
Makena Metz, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Alex Carrigan, Issue 9 (Review)
Robin Arble, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Alexandra Meyer, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Allison Whittenberg, Issue 9 (Poetry)
William Doreski, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Laynie Browne, Issue 9 (Poetry)
Victoria Korth, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Bart Edelman, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Christa Fairbrother, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Sarah E N Kohrs, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Rick Mullin, Issue 8 (Review)
Jonathan Fletcher, Issue 8 (Poetry)
Shelli Rottschafer, Issues 6, 7 (Review/Poetry)
Jeanne Bamforth, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Sarena Tien, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Adele Ross, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Natalie Marino, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Wendell Hawken, Issue 7 (Poetry)
A.L. Nielsen, Issue 7 (Poetry)
Mike Bagwell, Issue 1 (Review)
C. M. Crockford, Issues 1, 2, 4 (Review)
Drishya, Issues 2, 4 (Review)
Francesca Leader, Issue 1 (Review)
PCR welcomes unsolicited chapbook reviews/interviews year-round and original poetry in four periods beginning February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1. We’re only interested in poets and poetics right now. Please read our guidelines fully before submitting pitches. PCR is a curated journal. We purchase first serial rights, which revert one month after publication, and non-exclusive archival and syndication rights.