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David O’ Connor Fiction Editor
Amy Marques Associate Fiction Editor
Tom Hedt Associate Poetry Editor
Clementine Burnley CNF Editor
David McNicholas Associate CNF Editor
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Robert Vaughan
Editor-in-Chief
Robert Vaughan teaches retreats and workshops in hybrid writing, poetry, fiction at locations like Synergia Ranch, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Devonfield Inn, Ojai Retreat Center, The Clearing and Cedar Valley. He was a finalist for the Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction (2013, 2014). He was the head judge for the Bath International Flash Fiction Awards, 2016. His short fiction was selected for Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019 (Queen’s Ferry Press).
He is the Editor-in-Chief at Bending Genres Journal.
Vaughan is the author of six books: Microtones (Cervena Barva Press); Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits (Deadly Chaps); Addicts & Basements (CCM), RIFT, co-authored with Kathy Fish (Unknown Press); FUNHOUSE (Unknown Press). His newest is ASKEW (Cowboy Jamboree). His blog: www.robert-vaughan.com.
David O’Connor
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She’s been nominated for multiple awards, longlisted twice in Wigleaf 50, and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, BOOTH, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is editor & visual artist for the Duets anthologies, author & artist of the chapbook Are You Willing? and the found poetry book PARTS.
Tom Hedt
Associate Poetry Editor
Tom Hedt’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including: The Sijo International Journal of Poetry and Song, Cirque, The Lilly Poetry Review, The Tule Review, Cathexis Northwest and elsewhere. His poetry compilation, Artifacts and Assorted Memorabilia, was published in September of 2020 by Cold River Press. He lives in Eureka, California and his website is at thomashedt.com.
Clementine Burnley
Clementine E Burnley is a feminist migrant mother, writer and community organiser. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Magma Magazine,The Poetry Review, the National Flash Fiction Anthology and The Centifictionist. She’s a 2021 Sky Arts Award Winner, an alumnus of Obsidian Foundation and a 2021 Edwin Morgan Second Life Grantee.
Social media: twitter @decolonialheart, or IG @Ewokila
David McNicholas
Associate CNF Editor
David John Baer McNicholas lives in a bus in the desert, with two cats: Penelope and Clementine. He is the author of the novel Lemons: In an Orchard. He operates the renegade imprint ghostofamerica ltd co (Anarchy, Abolition, Art) and studies for his BFA in Creative Writing at IAIA in Santa Fe. Currently, he reads CNF for BendingGenres.com and is founding editor for Young Warrior, a student produced zine at IAIA. His linked CV is at ghostofamerica.neocities.org. David loves doom jazz, tostones, and absurdist films.
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