Staff
Publisher and Nonprofit Founder
Allison Blevins (she/her) is the queer disabled author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down?, Cataloguing Pain, Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir, Slowly/Suddenly, and six chapbooks. Winner of the 2024 Barthelme Prize, the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and the 2022 Laux/Millar Poetry Prize, Allison serves as the Publisher of Small Harbor Publishing and lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. allisonblevins.com
Press Director
Kristiane Weeks-Rogers (she/her) is a Poet-Writer living in western Colorado. Her debut poetry collection, Self-Anointment with Lemons released in September 2021 by Finishing Line Press. She is the 2nd place winner of Casa Cultural de las Americas and University of Houston’s inaugural Poetic Bridges contest and author of the chap collection Become Skeletons published by the University of Houston in 2018. She grew up around Lake Michigan and earned her higher education degrees in Florida (Flagler College) and Indiana (Indiana University). She earned her MFA at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. She manages Harbor Review, Small Harbor’s digital literary journal, as well.
Operations Director
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) is the author of five chapbooks, and his debut poetry full-length, For All Of Us Faggots, is forthcoming from Iron Oaks Editions in March 2027. Dustin is co-editor of the Nautilus Silver Medal award-winning Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023) and the editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist anthology When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton (Harbor Editions, 2024), which received a Kirkus Reviews rating of “Get it!” Dustin’s poems have been published by Pleiades, Five Points, South Carolina Review, Verse Daily, Best American Poetry Blog, Chiron Review, and The Westchester Review, among many others. The 2024 Jon Tribble Editors Fellow, Dustin curates the Wild & Precious Life Series and also volunteers for Punch Bucket Lit.
Managing Editor
Bianca Dagostino is a fiction author, poet, editor, and lover of imaginative prose. Bisexual, atheist, mentally ill, and oft mistaken for a vampire, Bianca is excited to champion your strange and rebellious work. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Central Florida, is the Managing Editor of Harbor Editions, and is a reader for The Florida Review. Her work has appeared in Blackwater Review and Mania Magazine. Bianca is currently trapped in Florida with her partner, her cat, and four full bookcases she loves very much.
Senior Editor Team
Eliza Carlson (she/her) is a storyteller, poet, singer-songwriter, and artist from West Virginia. She graduated from Cornell College in 2025 with a degree in Creative Writing and Art History, as well as a minor in studio art. Her self-written and self-produced debut album, Ghost Town, was independently released in January 2023. Eliza can most often be found attempting to multitask her way through too many creative projects at once. She is currently writing her second album, her first novel, and her first poetry collection.
Joshua Davis (he/him) is the author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black (Seven Kitchens Press) and, with Allison Blevins, the co-author of Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press) and fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre Press). He holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, he offers online workshops and private mentoring at The Poetry Barn. Recent work has appeared in ONE ART: a journal of poetry, The Hunger, and TAB. He teaches high school near Tampa, Florida.
Beth Bolton (she/her) is a lover of words and stories living in Texas. She has had poems published in various anthologies and is always reading and writing. She works as a copyeditor after transitioning from a decade-long career as a mental health therapist. Beth is also a certified yoga instructor. In her spare time, you can catch her traveling, spending time with loved ones, crafting/drawing, and obsessing over Halloween. Find her online at bethboltonloveswords.com or instragram @beth.ann.bolton
Jessie Truong (she/her) is a graduate from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Literature/Writing. In her free time, she enjoys writing, reading, and making art.
Jessica Ballen is a disabled poet completing their MFA in creative writing at Antioch University, where they serve as Editor in Chief of Lunch Ticket Literary Magazine. They're also Managing Editor of Defunkt Magazine, Senior Editor at Small Harbor Publishing, and a guest editor for Frontier Poetry. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Ghost City Review, and Wild Roof Journal (among others). You can find them compulsively posting on their Instagram stories @_j___esus and on Bluesky @jessicaballen.bsky.social.
Manuscript Readers
Katie Richards(she/her) is a poet based out of the DC metro area. Her manuscript Apple Mind was selected as an editors' pick for the Laureate Prize and is forthcoming from Harbor Editions. It was also a semi-finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has previously appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Harbor Review, DIALOGIST, Softblow, South Dakota Review, and Sweet Tree Review among other places. She received her MFA from George Mason University.
Cynthia Marie Hoffman (she/her) is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently the OCD memoir in prose poems Exploding Head. Essays have appeared in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Poems have appeared in Electric Literature, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Cynthia lives in Madison, WI. www.cynthiamariehoffman.com.
Andrea L. Hackbarth (she/her) is a Registered Piano Technician who runs her own piano service business while also writing and editing for the Piano Technicians Journal. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage and received a 2022 Individual Artist Award from Alaska’s Rasmuson Foundation. Her work has been published in various print and digital publications, including Moist, YesPoetry, Lunch Ticket, and others. She lives in Palmer, Alaska, with her son, dog, and two cats.
Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer (bi /pan) Jewish poet, educator, and activist. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon, was published by Driftwood Press in 2025 and is a 2026 Lammy Finalist for Bisexual Poetry. Her Miami sonnet recently won second place in the Sonnet! Boom competition She has also been published in places including Penumbra: Literaryand Art Journal,Blood + Honey, and SWWIM. Find more about her here: https://www.clayrebenzadon.com
Wendy Wisner is the author of three books of poems, most recently The New Life, published by Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point) and named a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year. Wendy’s poems and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Review, Passages North, Verse Daily, The Washington Post, Lilith Magazine, and elsewhere.
Alli Riechman-Bennet is an author based in the Missouri Ozarks who holds an MA in English Literature from Washington State University. She is a Managing Editor for Same Faces Collective, CNF Editor for Blood + Honey, and her work has appeared in many literary magazines. Her fields of study are food literature, diasporic foodways, and anything edible. www.allisonleeriechman-bennett.org
Born in Fruitdale, Indiana and growing up in Indianapolis, Stephanie L. Erdman graduated Purdue University and received her master’s degree through Indiana University South Bend. Her first poetry collection based on her graduate thesis, Pyrrhonic, is available through Dos Madres Press and her second collection, Sankhara, is searching for a home. Recently relocated to Southwest Georgia, Stephanie works as an Assistant Professor of English at Albany State University, editor, and professional tutor. She lives with her dogs, cat, and persistent impostor syndrome. Did you know that Georgia has pollen season?
Anna Martignetti (she/they) is completing her MFA in creative writing at American University. Her calling as an intuitive medium influences her writing. In her free time, you can find her jumping on the trampoline with her daughters or making a collage.
Design Team
Art Director
Sapira Cheuk is an ink painter and installation artist interested in proprioception, ways of knowing through the body, and how these modes of knowledge reflect or internalize external experiences. Cheuk has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including those at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Royal Society of Art, London, UK, Center for Contemporary Art Texas, Pablo Center for the Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and Yellowstone Art Museum. Cheuk works for the Nevada Arts Council, teaches at the College of Southern Nevada, and serves as an Art Commissioner for the City of Las Vegas Art Commission. She received her BA at the University of California, Riverside, and MFA from California State University, San Bernardino.
Graphic Designer, interior
Social Media Manager
Jyotideepa Bayan is studying literature at the Centre for English Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is endlessly fascinated by postcolonial worlds, speculative fiction, and stories that imagine different ecological futures. She firmly believes the best conversations begin with books and is always looking for the next one to fall into.
Claire Eder’s poems and translations have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, PANK, Midwestern Gothic, and Guernica, among other publications. She holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a PhD from Ohio University. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Find her online at claireeder.com.
Graphic Designer, interior and exterior
Brianna Chapman (she/her) earned her BA in English Creative Writing from Texas Tech University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on the human condition seen in mythology, fairy tales, and urban legends. She is also currently working as a publishing fellow for the Texas Review Press. Her work is featured in the TTU Harbinger journal.
Graphic Designer, interior and in-house cover design
Brianna Protesto is a designer and artist based just outside of Philadelphia. A graduate of Drexel University with a degree in graphic design, Brianna has made her mark in both the design and fine art communities. Her work has been featured in multiple publications, showcased in various exhibitions, and recognized with a GD USA award. She is also a proud alumna of the Philadelphia Mural Arts training program. With a deep passion for design, Brianna’s creative practice seamlessly blends her expertise in graphic design with her love for art, typography, and print.
Website Manager
Carson Elliot (they/them) is a Pushcart Prize nominated teaching artist living in Minneapolis after spending nearly a decade in Middle Tennessee. They are the author of the chapbook Celestial Bodies: A Year of Transgender Love Letters (2023).Their work centers the lyrical wisdom that the land provides, and the spiritual topography of the modern day American. They are an OZ Arts ArtWire Fellow for 2024-2025. Their work can be found in publications such as SWING magazine, South Carolina Review, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, and Fifth Wheel Press among others.
Assistant Team
Assistant Editor
Sarah Mengel (she/her) is an emerging poet and PhD candidate in English with a Creative Writing concentration at Oklahoma State University. A graduate of the WCU MA program, she continues to explore language and storytelling in her academic and creative pursuits. Originally from Pennsylvania, Sarah enjoys writing, reading, singing, and spending time with her cat, Kiwi.
Press Publicist
Hallie Macaulay (she/her) is a recent graduate from the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in Communications. Originally from a rural town in New England, she has passed the time scribbling stories with her friends from a young age. After discovering a passion for editing in college, she realized the value of helping other people articulate themselves to their truest extent. She now lives in Berkeley, California, and is taking it day by day.
IN LOVING MEMORY
R.B. Simon was a queer, disabled, fat, black writer and author of The Good Truth (2021, Finishing Line Press), Not Just the Fire (2023, Cornerstone Press) and the forthcoming Bird, Bone, Blood (2025, Milk & Cake Press). Her work has found homes in such journals as Strange Horizons, Literary Mama, Obsidian, and CALYX. She is the 2nd Place Winner in the 2023 Plentitudes Prize, and winner of the 2023 Zoyer Zyndel Poetry Prize. She was living in Madison, WI with her spouse and young daughter, where she enjoyed creating visual art, napping, and coffee-flavored caffeine.