Founding Editor
Grant Young
Associate/Poetry Editor
Alejandro Aguirre
Fiction Editor
Tyler Martinez
Grant Young
Founding Editor
Grant Young is currently a candidate at the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing Graduate Program, where he's currently revising an essay collection based on his time playing college baseball at USF.
His writing appears in HAD, Idle Ink, The Twin Bill, and elsewhere. You can find more about his writing at his website, https://grant-young.com/.
Grant is on Twitter and Instagram @GrvntYoung.
Alejandro Aguirre
Associate/Poetry Editor
Alejandro Aguirre studies history and English with a concentration in creative writing at the University of Florida. Originally from Miami, the poet currently resides in Gainesville, where he also serves as the president and editor emeritus at Tea Literary & Arts Magazine. As a child, he, for lack of a better word, practiced karate. Though the martial art is no longer a part of his life, Alejandro has interpolated its emphasis on discipline to editing and poetry.
He publishes under the alias Alex Manuel. He is the recent recipient of the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Award from the University of Florida, and his work can be found in I-70 Review and Hawai’i Pacific Review.
Tyler Martinez
Fiction Editor
Tyler Martinez is currently an English student in New York City. After completing his associate's at Borough of Manhattan Community College, he looks forward to graduating in 2023 with a Bachelor's in English Literature and Criticism. As an avid reader and writer, he enjoys short American fiction, and his favorite authors are John Cheever and J.D. Salinger. in the future, he hopes to continue his education and add value to the literary world.