​Poetry Reader
Katherine Huang is a graduate student in genomics and computational biology at UPenn. Her work has appeared in print/online at various places, including Pangyrus, phoebe, The Shore, and West Trestle Review. When not writing or sciencing, she enjoys dancing and taking naps. You can find her on Twitter @Katabolical.

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, Sugar House Review, and Cimmaron. 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, and she tweets @patriciacaspers.