Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Amy Burns is a writer, editor, and artist originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She now lives just outside of Houston, Texas. Amy earned a BA in English Literature and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham followed by a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her first novel, Leaving is My Colour (Freight Publishing), was published in 2017. She began working as a writer, editor, and tutor in 2006 after she decided to leave (what her father called) a good job in corporate America. Since then, she has served as Managing Editor for Unbound Press, Arts Unbound, Spilling Ink Review, and Mulberry Fork Review. For more, please visit: Amy Elizabeth Burns

Poetry Editor

Patti White is the author of four collections of poems, Tackle Box (2002), Yellow Jackets (2007), Chain Link Fence (2013), and Pink Motel (2017), all from Anhinga Press. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Iowa Review, North American Review, River Styx, Nimrod, DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, Missouri Review, Parcel, McNeese Review, Slippery Elm, Vine Leaves, Waccamaw, and New Madrid; her nonfiction in Gulf Coast, Miracle Monocle, and Mulberry Fork Review. Her most recent publication is Particularly Dangerous Situation (Arc Pair Press, 2020), an experimental novella. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Regular Contributors

Anthony Emerson lives and writes at the edge of the North Maine Woods. Born and raised in Southern and Eastern Maine, he recently moved back to his mother’s hometown in the Katahdin region where the rivers and mountains of the north country have become a focus of his writing. As a nature writer, he seeks to examine the connections between personal and community identity with natural and man-made landscapes and concepts. 
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Robert Fromberg grew up in Peoria, Illinois, with his artist parents and two siblings, one autistic. At age 16, he left for New York City, where he worked in warehouses and spent his nights at CBGB. At age 19, after the death of his parents, he returned to Peoria and became guardian of his autistic brother.
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Jeffrey Hampton has been a pianist most of his life and is described as passionate and driven about classical music.  He started playing when he was eight years old always received high marks in local music competitions.  He was born in Evansville but would go on to study music at the Chicago College of the Performing Arts when he was 18 and would ultimately finish his bachelor’s in music performance from Indiana State University as well as receiving a certificate in Piano Pedagogy.
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Ronald McGuire is a novelist, poet, scriptwriter, and journalist. His work has/will appear in Catalyst Magazine (Athens, GA), Flash Fiction Magazine, The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, CNN.com, and a few other places. 
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Nicole Zelniker (she/her) is a writer, activist, and managing editor at The Nasiona. Nicole is also the author of several books, including “Letters I’ll Never Send.”
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