Kate Shylo (founding editor) is a Crimean writer, photographer and translator. She obtained a Bachelor degree in English Literature from Kingston University London in 2018 and a Masters degree in Comparative and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam in 2019. Her work has appeared in The Collidescope and Dimeshow Review. A nomad at heart, Kate has been travelling around the world gathering stories. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School.

Konstantin Kulakov (founding editor, he/they) is a Russian-American poet, editor, and translator born in Zaoksky, former Soviet Union. He is the recipient of the Greg Grummer Poetry Award judged by Brian Teare, and between 2019 and 2021, served as a Writing Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. His work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Witness, Phoebe, Spillway, and Harvard Journal of African American Policy, among others. They live in Washington, D.C., on occupied Piscataway and Anacostan land.

Ryan Onders (managing editor) holds a BA from The College of William and Mary where he studied English and Anthropology. Onder’s poetry is interested in performance, embodiment, and what it means to bring the language act off the page. Ryan completed a book length poetry manuscript titled Layers of Swamp, investigating the capitalist reconstructions of colonial history in the Rockefeller rebuilt Colonial Williamsburg, dubbed “Billy’s Burg.” He is an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School.

Anton Relin (editor) Anton Relin holds BAs in Slavic and Eastern European Studies and Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Russian-Jewish-American language engineer, translator, and editor of Pocket Samovar. He has previously translated Church Slavonic manuscripts and for Homintern. His conference piece Speaking in Tongues: Sectarian Glossolalia and Futurist Trans-Rational Language received an honorable mention at the annual Slavic Bazaar conference.

Aubrey King (editor) is a nonbinary poet and writer living in San Francisco. They received an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where they were the Allen Ginsberg Graduate Fellow. Recent poems appear in Poetry, Warm Milk, Gramma Press, and others. They are an editor at Pocket Samovar, an editorial assistant at Guernica, and the interview correspondent at TERSE.

Yehudith Dashevsky (managing editor) is a writer and translator living in Washington D.C. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English literature, poetry, poetics, and translation. She translates poetry and prose from Russian and Hebrew, and has translated a 300-page commentary on a Hebrew and Aramaic text.

Zohra Saed (contributing editor) is a Brooklyn based writer. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press), editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative); and Woman. Hand/Pen. (Belladonna Chaplet). Zohra is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, The City University of New York.

Marina Blitshsteyn (contributing editor) is a poet, writer and educator born in the Soviet Union. Blitshteyn and her family fled to the US in 1991 as refugees. She studied English at SUNY Buffalo, where she edited the longstanding annual Name poetry journal, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, where she also served as a University Writing Fellow and consultant. She is the author of Two Hunters, her first full-length collection, to be published by Argos Books in 2018 with a CLMP Face-Out grant. Her work has been anthologized in the new Brooklyn Poets Anthology, The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, Why I Am Not a Painter, and My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry. She teaches Composition and Rhetoric and experimental non-fiction and runs The Loose Literary Canons, a feminist reading group in NYC.

Hadaa Sendoo, (contributing editor) Union of Mongolian Writers, founder, World Poetry Almanac, co-chair Council of Writers and Readers of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia. Works: Sweet Smell of Grass (Persian 2016), Aurora (Kurdish 2017), Mongolian Long Song (Georgian 2017), Wenn ich sterbe, werde ich träumen (Mongolian-German 2017), Mongolian Blue Spots (Dutch, 2017), A Corner of the Earth (Norwegian 2018), Peace, Broken Heart (Russian 2018), Sich zuhause fühlen (German 2018).

Isabel Mareş (art editor) is a Romanian-American multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She identifies as queer and differently-abled. A classically trained singer turned scholar of world religions turned cultural arts professional, she has worked for Carnegie Hall, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Art Students League of New York, and has also held positions in faith-based institutions. She holds a Master of Theology and the Arts degree from Union Theological Seminary. In 2018, she was a contributing editor for the inaugural issue of Yale University's FERNS: Graduate Journal on Environmental Stewardship. Since 2019, she serves as an arts and culture consultant for over 150 Jewish Community Centers in North America, continuing her lifelong commitments to interfaith dialogue through the arts and cultural preservation.  

Anastasia Chaguidouline (international editor) is an art mediator and writer, currently based in Basel, Switzerland. She currently works for various institutions including Museum Tinguely, Vitra Design Museum, Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Art Basel. At present, she writes prose and poetry, mainly in German and has previously worked as a translator. Her main focus lies in the intersection between art and literature and multilingual practices. In 2018 her texts were published in The Contemporary Condition series (Sternberg Press). She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and an MA in Arts from Institut Kunst, Basel.

Matvei Yankelevich‘s (advisory board member) books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), The Present Work (Palm Press), and Writing in the Margin (Loudmouth Collective). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern) and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG). He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Division), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. At Ugly Duckling Presse, he designs and/or edits many and various books, is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series, and a co-editor of 6×6. He lives in Brooklyn.

Boris Dralyuk (advisory board member) is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution and Ten Poems from Russia, and translator of Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. His poems have appeared in The New Criterion, The Yale Review, Jewish Quarterly, and elsewhere.

C. M. Chady (advisory board member) currently lives in Boulder, CO, where she is pursuing her MFA Creative Writing and Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics of Naropa University. She is the Anne Waldman Fellow of the graduating class of 2020. She works in poetry, prose, and cross-genre, often including art and images into her collections. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Anthropology and International & Area Studies. She co-founded the literary magazine Tiny Spoon early 2019. Additionally, she works with JKS’s Bombay Gin as a Contributing Editor and River Styx, where she was formerly the Managing Editor and Hungry Young Poets Reading Series Director.

Catherine Strisik (advisory board member) is a poet, and author of most recently, Insectum Gravitis (Main Street Rag, 2019); The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016),  Winner of the 2017 New Mexico/Az Book Award in Poetry, from which one of the poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Thousand-Cricket Song (2010; 2nd edition, 2016 Plain View Press);      and manuscript-in-progress,  Aikaterina. She is co-founder  and   consulting editor of Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art  (www.taosjournalofpoetry.com), Strisik also  teaches poetry workshops privately and small groups, and is available for readings and interviews. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.