Co-Editor / Poetry
Joan Kwon Glass (Smith College, B.A., M.A.T.) is a biracial Korean American who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. She grew up in Seoul and Detroit, and now lives in Milford, CT. Her poems have been featured in T.S. Press Every Day Poems, Poetry as it Ought to be, and Wednesday Night Poetry Series, and have been published or are upcoming in Rust & Moth, SWWIM, Rogue Agent, Barnstorm, Rattle, Rough Cut Press, Poets Reading the News, South Florida Poetry Journal, Porcupine Literary, Persephone’s Daughters, TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Vagabond City, Literary Mama, The Mantle Poetry Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost City Review, Wondrous Real and various print anthologies. Joan tweets @joanpglass. |
Co-Editor / Poetry
Jasmin Lankford is a writer and world wanderer from Florida. She studied Creative Writing in France at the American University of Paris and graduated from the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. Jasmin’s poetry has appeared in Parentheses Journal, River Mouth Review and elsewhere. She has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. In addition to working on her debut poetry collection, Jasmin works in social media marketing and hosts a travel video series at AAA – The Auto Club Group. |
Fiction Editor
Oli Joyce is a fiction writer with a Bachelor's degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is a co-founder of Roundhouse News & Review, an online news publication, and has worked as an editor on the children's literary magazine, Stone Soup. |
Assistant Editor
Annie Stenzel is a free range poet who was born in Illinois, but did not stay put. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in print and online journals in the U.S. and the U.K., from Ambit to Verse Daily, with stops at Atlanta Review, Chestnut Review, FERAL, Gargoyle, Lily Poetry Review, Nixes Mate, On the Seawall, SWWIM, The Lake, and Thimble, among others. Her full-length collection is The First Home Air After Absence (Big Table Publishing, 2017). Her second collection was recently a finalist for the Washington Prize at The Word Works. In addition to her position with West Trestle, she co-edits poetry submissions at the online journal Right Hand Pointing. She lives on unceded Ohlone land within walking distance of the San Francisco Bay, and pays a voluntary monthly land tax to help restore Indigenous life. |
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Patricia Caspers is an award-winning poet, journalist and columnist. Her work has been published in journals such as Ploughshares, Nimrod, Spillway and Sugar House Review. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, In the Belly of the Albatross, (Glass Lyre Press) and Some Flawed Magic (Kelsay Books, 2021). She is a Unitarian Universalist. |