Editor-In-Chief
Marjorie Tesser’s (she/her) debut full-length poetry collection, Unquiet, is forthcoming in 2027 from Cornerstone Press’s Portage Poetry Series. She is also the author of poetry chapbooks The Important Thing Is, a Firewheel Chapbook Award winner (Firewheel Editions), and The Magic Feather (FLP). Her poetry, fiction, and prose have appeared in the The Ekphrastic Review, Whale Road Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, SWWIM, and others. A poem, “April,” won the 2019 John B. Santoianni Award from Academy of American Poets. Marjorie is a 2026 Poets & Writers Poetry GTWO Fellow. She has co-edited three anthologies of poetry and prose. Marjorie holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. https://marjorietesser.substack.com.
Poetry Editor
Cindy Veach’s most recent poetry collection is Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press). She is also the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read.’ A recipient of the Philip Booth Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize Cindy’s poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. https://www.cindyveach.com
Poetry Assistant Editor
Carla Panciera’s (she/her) work has appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, New England Review, Water-Stone Review, and Spillway. She is the author of three poetry collections: No Day, No Dusk, No Love; One Trail of Longing, Another of String (Bordighera); and One of the Cimalores (Cider Press). Other books include Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir (Loom Press), and Bewildered, which won AWP’s Grace Paley Short Fiction Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. https://carlapanciera.wordpress.com/
Prose Co-Editor
J.L. Scott writes across genres, from YA and MG fantasy to contemporary literary stories. She is a mentor at PenParentis, as well as a member of AWP and of AURWC. She holds a BA, MA and MFA in Fiction and teaches writing for the corrections education program at Ashland University, which uses her textbook First Things First: Foundational Tools for Collegiate Writing. You can find out more at https://jscottroller.
Book Reviews Co-Editor
Melissa Joplin Higley (she/her) is the author of the poetry chapbook First Father (Bottlecap Press). She won the Grand Prize in the 90th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition in 2021, and her work has appeared in B_O_D_Y, Feral, The Night Heron Barks, Sleet Magazine, Whale Road Review, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. She co-founded and co-facilitates the Poetry Craft Collective and serves as the 2024-2026 Town of Mamaroneck Poet Laureate. www.melissajoplinhigley.com
Editors-at-Large
Gallery Editor Ana C. H. Silva (she/her) lives in NYC and Olive, NY. Her poetry has been published in Podium, Mom Egg Review, the nth position, Snow Monkey, Anemone Sidecar, Chronogram, and Stepaway Magazine. She won the inaugural Rachel Wetzsteon Memorial Poetry Prize at the 92nd St. Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
JP Howard’s (she/her) debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*). JP is a 2018 featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program and was a Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism finalist. JP has received fellowships from Cave Canem, VONA, and Lambda and curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. http://www.jp-howard.com
In Loving Memory of our Late Poetry Co-Editor Jennifer Martelli
Acknowledging Mom Egg Founding Publisher and Editor
Joy Rose, Mamapalooza Festival, Museum of Motherhood, and MOM Art Annex
Alana Ruben Free
