Semilore Kilaso - Editor-in-chief
Semilore Kilaso loves to collect photographs of humans, architecture, wildlife, and landscape. When she is not playing Scrabble or reading books, she is reading lines from architectural drawings. You can read her works here https://linktr.ee/SemiloreKilaso.
Mohammed Yusuf - Art Editor
Mohammed U. Yusuf is a writer and editor from North-Central, Nigeria. His works have recently appeared—or are forthcoming—in Frontier Poetry, RoseyRavelston Books, Lunaris Review, The Lumiere Review, Olongo Africa Journal, KonyaShamsrumi, among others. He is an Associate Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review and tweets @Unyomo.
Kaia Ball - 4 L P H 4 N U M 3 R 1 C Editor
Kaia Ball (they/them) crafts fiction with a scientist's attention, nonfiction with an artist's panache, and poetry as a love story to life itself. Their poetry, essays, and speculative fiction have been published by Harper One, Electric Literature, Snowflake Magazine, New Reader Magazine, and beyond. They edit work for Chrysalis Magazine and Zoetic Press. Find their musings on mortality and salutes to soup at kaia-ball.com
Ashley Bach - Social Media
Ashley’s life was changed fundamentally by the pandemic. Prior to 2020, Ashley had a hard time finding steady employment, despite having expertise in astrology, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and battle tactics. Once the pandemic forced everyone to work remotely via Zoom, Ashley was no longer handicapped by the fact that she is a centaur. We are lucky to have her.
Tommy Balmat - Reader
Tommy Belmat began life as a tadpole. His early school days were difficult, as most furniture is not made for people with tiny limbs and tails. Once he grew into his limbs and his tail disappeared, he discovered his love of learning and excelled in geography, geometry, and sports. He holds a world record for the under-18 high jump.
Erin Conway - Social Media
Erin is an experienced classroom teacher, nonprofit staff trainer and curriculum designer who lived ten years in indigenous villages in Guatemala. When asked what she loved most about education, her response was, “the storytelling”. After she returned to live on her family's farm in Wisconsin, she also returned to writing. Erin’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry are published in a variety of literary magazines, including The Hopper’s fiction submission for the 2019 Push Cart Prize. Her work in progress can be found at www.erinconway.com. Erin spends a great deal of time watching her niece’s current Netflix binge and dedicates the remainder to boring her dogs by exploring books, learning new languages and contributing to libraries that thrive across borders.
Lindy Giusta - Reader
Lindy Giusta is a queer, neurodivergent, prolific and extremely passionate visual artist and hailing from California. They have had their artwork published in various lit mags like Peatsmoke, Bleating Things, Magpie Zine, and more... and their poetry/prose featured in Unleash Lit and Dark Poets Club and have shown their art across California and New York. When not writing or creating art, they love exhilarating adventures, playing their mandolin and always drinking copious amounts of coffee. Say hello to them on the world wide web: @lindydoesart
Weaver Melching - Reader
Weaver Melching is a writer, teacher, and visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. They adore all things bizarre in a way that has gradually looped back around to an obsession with the ordinary, as a baseline for strangeness to exist in contrast to. They have worked in editorial roles at New Word Order and as Editor of Cartoons at The College Tribune, University College Dublin's unofficial newspaper. They spend most of their time making art or trying to learn languages they will likely never use.
Naqsh Mitra - Reader
Naqsh, in addition to being a writer and editor, is also a skilled crafter who has knitted, felted, and embroidered an entire house for herself in a beautiful meadow near a river. The beauty of a fabric house is that when it’s dirty, she just pulls it into the river and washes it clean. Naqsh is talented enough to be able to crochet two different projects at a time, one with each hand.
Nuraini Mohammad - Reader
Nuraini started training as a doctor, having a vision of saving lives and making people healthier. After spending some time in the accident and emergency wards, Nuraini realized that the bulk of medical practice involves a few things: giving people health advice they will then ignore, only to come back with the same complaint later; removing a surprising array of things from people’s orifices; and breaking terrible news to people who already feel terrible. Nuraini abandoned medicine for the professional snowboarding circuit.
Salihu Muhammad - Reader
Salihu Muhammad Ebba LEGEND BARD is a budding Nigerian Writer, Poet, Smart Phone Photographer and a graphic designer from Ebba. Minna Niger State. You can access some of his work through this link: https://linktr.ee/legend_bard
Victoria Ojo - Reader
Ojo Victoria Ilemobayo is a Nigerian literary enthusiast and smartphone photographer whose work has been featured in various publications, including Christian Century, Christian Courier, Ake Review, and MAAR Review, among others. Her writing and photography have appeared in numerous online literary platforms, showcasing her talent and versatility.
Yasmeen Owens - Reader
Yasmeen has two left feet. Also two left hands, two left eyes, two left ears, two left lungs, etc. She is a well-documented medical miracle: twins entirely conjoined at the right sides of their bodies so that only the left sides are evident. As a result, she is often of two minds, does double duty, and suffers from double vision. The one thing she isn’t, is two-faced.
Li Quintana - Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Li Quintana does a little of everything at Zoetic Press and was, until early 2024, editor in chief for NonBinary Review. Quintana was formerly the editor in chief of Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of the MFA program of Antioch University Los Angeles. They’ve been podcasting for over 20 years, and record and edit the 4LPH4NUM3R1C podcast. They write, too. Google them. You can read their stuff. They’re a popular speaker, and, for a reasonable fee, will show up at your party and act charming and mysterious, thereby increasing your social capital. When not editing, they’re writing, crocheting, knitting. sewing, gardening, painting, drawing, cooking, singing, and volunteering at their church. But not sleeping. They’ve never gotten the hang of sleeping.
Their work has been published in Extract(s), Red Fez, Drunk Monkeys, The Weekender, The Rambler, Role Reboot, Willow Review, SLAB, and other fine venues.