Staff Members – F(r)iction

Sara Santistevan

Intern

Sara Santistevan was born in California, where she grew up around vivid storytellers. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a B.A. in Literature and Legal Studies. During her time at UCSC, Sara received the 2021 Reyna Grande Scholarship for her poetry on the Latina identity. Her forthcoming chapbook, The Root from Which Freedom Blossoms, explores how complicated mythologies, histories, and cultural norms can live on in the internal lives of marginalized individuals. In her free time, Sara enjoys visiting local cafes, petting all her neighborhood cats, and discovering the magic of the written word.

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Montanna Harling

Intern

Montanna is an MFA in Prose candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches undergraduate writing courses. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Literature and Writing (Honors) from UC San Diego and had the incredible opportunity to research literary haunting at the University of Oxford. Montanna co-founded UC San Diego’s first-ever literary arts magazine organization, O(the)r People Magazine, and served as its Editor-in-Chief for three years. She writes speculative eco-fiction, with an emphasis on inheritance—her writing explores familial legacies and positions the ecological environment as a space that is infinitely inherited.

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Inanna Carter

Intern

Inanna is a recent graduate of Kutztown University with a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in English/Professional Writing. She’s currently undertaking an online MFA in Emerson College’s Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing program and freelances for a gaming journalism site. With her two wild cats Remy and Mouse constantly on the run, Inanna’s been doing her best to outline and write her first novel, all while crocheting, reading (more like collecting) any romance books she can find, and happily listening to BTS or Stray Kids.

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Zara Garcia

Intern

Zara Garcia is a proud Mexican American woman living in Southwest Florida, where she recently graduated with a BA in English and a minor in World Literature. She is an aspiring editor with a passion for magical realism and Latinx literature. When she isn’t reading, she is writing free verse poems in her journal, making fake cakes out of spackle, or cooking vegan food.

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Aubrey Unemori

Intern

Aubrey Unemori graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Creative Writing. She was born and raised on Maui, Hawaii but currently resides in Seattle, Washington. She likes to fill her days with reading, writing, playing games with friends, and pretending to be a coffee snob.

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Race Garber

Senior Editor

Race has a background in editing, including fiction and non-fiction, scientific and technical papers, professional essays, and legal writing. Regardless of the nature of the writing, a powerful creation stems from strong narrative, approachable language, solid structure, and momentum-building flow. Race enjoys donating his time to Brink to assist new and established authors in suffering through the revision process and celebrating the progress.

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Haley Lawson

Junior Editor

Haley Lawson is a writer and educator, having taught English in the U.S.A., Mongolia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Currently, she works as a Program Coordinator for AmeriCorps. A lover of all things make-believe and magick, she writes genre fiction under the pen name H. M. L. Swann. Some of her works are published in The Manchester Anthology IX and Quibble Literary. She received her master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in December 2021. When not writing, she can be found reading tarot cards and hiking along the shores of Lake Superior.

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Simon Kerr

Junior Editor

Simon Kerr is a writer/reader/editor from Colorado. Their home turf is fantasy and sci fi, their passion is queer representation in media, and they have opinions about loose leaf tea.

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Alex Schotzko

Junior Editor

Alex Schotzko is currently chasing a BFA in Creative Writing at Portland State University. He enjoys many different flavors of creativity: writing, drawing, painting, playing the piano, annoying his friends, and baking. When he needs to recharge said creativity (his friends, unfortunately, grow tougher to annoy by the day), he prefers immersing himself in live music, big open-world video games, and the utterly magical environs of the Pacific Northwest.

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Marizel Malan

Junior Editor

Marizel Malan was born and raised in South Africa, and recently graduated from the University of Pretoria with an Honours Degree in English Literature. She showcases her poetry on the online platform Substack via her newsletter named I don’t drink gin and tonic. Marizel is currently working as a ghost writer, writing nonfiction books in various niches including history, hobbies and crafts. Whenever she is not reading or writing, you can find her dabbling in a variety of arts and crafts, playing Minecraft, or baking for her family.

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Valerie San Filippo

Educational Content Coordinator

Valerie San Filippo is a writer and educator from Long Island, New York. She received her MFA in Fiction from Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has appeared in F(r)iction, PANK, TSROnline, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and a recipient of George R.R. Martin’s Miskatonic Scholarship. When she isn’t teaching, or writing stories about angry young women, she spends her time playing TTRPGs, embroidering, and caring for her pet moss balls.

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Eliza Browning

Junior Editor

Eliza Browning is studying for her master’s degree in modernist literature at the University of Oxford. She recently graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts with a degree in English and art history. Her poetry and fiction appears in The Adroit Journal, Salamander Magazine, Contrary Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly and the Oxford-Cambridge Mays Anthology, among others. When not reading or writing, Eliza can be found painting, embroidering or baking with botanicals.

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Sam Burt

Junior Editor

Sam is a tutor and proofreader living in east London. Since graduating in 2021 with a master’s in creative writing, he has been a bookseller for Phlox Books and Waterstones, and started the East London Indie Book Club to champion innovative fiction from small presses. Sam is the founder and editor of POINT BLOC, a new online literary journal that will launch later this year, and has edited fiction submissions to Bandit Fiction, An Inkling, and The Manchester Anthology IX. His fiction has appeared in Popshot Quarterly, Bandit Fiction, and Ink, Sweat and Tears, and his essays/reviews in The London Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, and BookRiot. Off the page, he can usually be found baking, volunteering at a local LGBTQ+ charity, or missing shuttlecocks.

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JP Legarte

Junior Editor

JP Legarte is an alum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who double majored in Creative Writing and Individual Plans of Study (Science, Health and Environmental Writing) and minored in English. As a junior editor, he reads and grades pieces submitted to F(r)iction to determine which pieces move up to be considered for publication by senior leadership. He also occasionally helps as a copyeditor, content writer, and grant writer for F(r)iction. In Fall 2021, he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize XLVII by Pareidolia Literary for his poem “The Petal Box.” He is a Summer 2022 Anaphora Arts Poetry Fellow, a Summer 2023 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference Nonfiction Alum, and a Summer 2023 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Nonfiction Alum and was also a finalist for the 2023 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing. Outside of Brink and F(r)iction, he works as an ISACorps Community Outreach Worker for the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. You can follow him and keep up with his endeavors on Instagram at @jpl091.

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Azalea Acevedo

Junior Editor

Azalea Acevedo grew up in Florida, where she spent her childhood drawing portraits of her favorite characters from the books she read. In high school, she moved to South Carolina. She attended Trident Technical College and graduated from Converse University, where she studied creative and professional writing. She was an editor for The Concept Literary Magazine, the school’s literary journal, which piqued her interest in developing stories in collaboration with an editorial team. Azalea has been published in both The Concept Literary Magazine and Converse Magazine, the university’s annual publication.

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Dominic Loise

Content Creator & Staff Writer

Dominic Loise lives with his librarian wife Jenna, their rabbits and many books. He met his wife one night over a shared love of reading Ray Bradbury. The rabbits love books too but aren’t readers. As a content creator for F(r)iction, Dominic writes book reviews, does interviews and has a series of personal essays about pop culture and mental health. He is open about and advocates for mental health awareness. Dominic can be found at @dominic_lives on Instagram & Twitter where he shares recently published work.

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Ejiwa ‘Edge’ Ebenebe

Assistant Creative Director & Impact Lead, Editorial Artist

Ejiwa ‘Edge’ Ebenebe is a Nigerian-Canadian artist based in BC, Canada. Edge serves as Assistant Creative Director for F(r)iction, working alongside the Creative Director to craft the vision and artistic direction for each issue, as well as assisting the Managing Editor with circulation and fulfilment logistics. As Data Lead for Brink, Edge also assists the team in tracking and analyzing the varying points of information needed to ensure Brink’s impact is as focused and effective as possible.

As an immigrant, they wrestle with concepts of community and identity, both within themself and their artwork, and strive to create representation for voices (particularly Black and/or LGBTQ+ folks) who are often pushed out of positive, empowering narratives. Their artwork echoes a love for the ethereal, fantasy stories they grew up with with vibrant colours and ornamentation that weaves Edge’s experience throughout each piece they create.

They have worked with clients including Scholastic, Wizards of the Coast, and Marvel. Their work has also featured in publications such as ImagineFX Magazine, Infected By Art, and Brink’s very own F(r)iction.

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Victoria Bruick

Executive Assistant

Victoria Bruick drinks (coffee) and knows things. As the Tyrion Lannister to Brink’s leadership team, she provides administrative support across the organization’s programming, fundraising, and internal operations. Outside of her work with Brink, Victoria is a marketing and podcast consultant with a passion for education and supporting the work of nonprofit organizations. She is a co-host and producer of the podcast Book Club with Julia & Victoria. Victoria earned a Bachelor’s degree in English and Music from Valparaiso University. Her poetry has been published by The Academy of American Poets and in Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets (Z Publishing).

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Asmaani Kumar

Junior Editor

Asmaani Kumar is a graduate in Sociology from Delhi University. Brought up in Guwahati, Assam and currently living in Delhi, she works as a writer for a media company. You’ll always find her taking the longer road for walks while blasting music in her ears. A hardcore postcard collector who spends too much time writing letters, reading poetry, gazing up at the skies and daydreaming of being in the mountains or a seaside village, these days she has been trying to learn new things like a language, an instrument, and cooking. What brings her happiness more than anything is stories, seen, read, or heard and she hopes she can spend a lifetime telling stories, sometimes her own but mostly of the people she comes across. She’s always ready to listen.

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Gina Gruss

Junior Editor

Gina Marie Gruss is an undergraduate student at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of FAU, double majoring in Creative Writing and Visual Art. She’s a born-and-raised south Floridian who hates the heat but loves her home state’s myths and nature. Her works have been featured by Amazon Prime Video, Mensa America, Wattpad, and FAU. She’s excitedly crafting her interdisciplinary senior thesis, which explores different Armageddons while centralizing disabled, queer, and diverse narratives. When not creating, she loves planning events, cooking and baking way too much food for said events, avoiding getting eaten by gators, and spoiling her cat Apollo.

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Matt Peadon

Visual Identity Associate

Matt Peadon is a character artist and art director working in film and video games. As the only blonde Australian that can’t surf, he pivoted and opted for a more digital medium. He was part of productions like Game of Thrones, Aquaman, Underworld, and Ghostbusters and has collaborated with organisations like Weta Workshop, NASA, KikkiK, Epic Games, and Magic Leap. Matt pursues his interest in photography and Hedlund’s quips by camera-slinging for Brink.

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Daniel Reneau

Artist

Daniel Reneau is an illustrator and toy designer from Denver, Colorado, whose art is steeped in the realms of horror and comic books. He is a graduate of the Academy of Art University and a 2013 winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future award. His work has been seen in illustrations, cards, games, and toys ranging from Star Wars and Aliens to Dungeons & Dragons and Marvel. When he’s not drawing or painting, he can be found lost in the world of video games, reading comic books, or meticulously constructing ships that were seen a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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David Abrams

Contributing Editor

David Abrams is the author of Brave Deeds and Fobbit, a comedy about the Iraq War that Publishers Weekly called “an instant classic.” It was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, an Indie Next Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Abrams’ short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in the anthologies Montana Noir, Watchlist, and Fire and Forget. Other stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, F(r)iction, High Desert Journal, Salamander, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, Consequence, and many other publications. He lives in Helena, Montana with his wife.

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Scott O’Connor

Contributing Editor

Scott O’Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Zero Zone, Untouchable, and Half World and the novella Among Wolves. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Zyzzyva, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Nate Ragolia

Communications & Marketing Director, Senior Editor

Nate Ragolia is an author, editor, publisher, and podcaster. He’s published three books, There You Feel Free (2015), The Retroactivist (2019), and One Person Can’t Make a Difference (2022). Nate co-hosts Debut Buddies, a podcast about firsts, and is co-founder of the indie press Spaceboy Books. At F(r)iction, he leads communication and marketing, writes grants, serves as a senior editor, and collaborates with the leadership team on a wide variety of projects and programs. He has also dabbled in webcomics, e-zines, and music blogging, and worked in community wealth development and nonprofit strategy. When he’s not doing the things listed above, Nate is a husband and a dog dad.

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David Galef

Contributing Editor

David Galef is a shameless eclectic who writes far too much for his own good, let alone that of others. He’s published extremely short fiction in the collections Laugh Track and My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize), extremely long fiction via the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress (Kirkus Best Books of 2006), and a lot in between. His latest is Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook, from Columbia University Press. His day job is as a Professor of English and the Creative Writing Program Director at Montclair State University. He’s also the new Editor-in-Chief at Vestal Review.

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Bradley Clayton

Editorial Artist

Bradley Clayton is a Brooklyn based illustrator who specializes in comics. He grew up in Alabama and developed a love of comics at a young age, mostly Wonder Woman and the X-Men. His work tends to be very influenced by melding whatever he currently finds cute with a love of classical illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and John Singer Sargent. He would love to hear about the time you met a ghost.

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Tyler Champion

Editorial Artist

Tyler Champion is a freelance illustrator and designer. He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New Jersey to develop his passion at The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic art. After graduating in 2010 he headed back south to Nashville, TN, where he currently resides with his girlfriend, Melissa, and his two sons. Tyler has produced work for magazines, comics, design companies, and children’s books; including work for Sony music, F(r)iction magazine, Capstone Publishing, and Tell-a-Graphics.

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Julian Mateus

Editorial Artist

Julian Mateus, a born artist hailing from Bogota, Colombia, moved with his twin brother and parents to Canada when he was only 7 years old, and then immigrated to the United States five years after that. After discovering the work of visionary artists such as Syd Mead, and classic sci-fi and fantasy films like Blade Runner, Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Julian was inspired to pursue a career in film. Since his graduation from Full Sail University in 2010, he has dedicated his natural talents toward the creation of artwork for video games, comic books, and feature films. Julian Mateus currently calls Florida his home.

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Samantha Dow

Editorial Artist

Samantha Dow is a writer, illustrator, and comic artist, based primarily out of New England. Their work, which often explores themes of the fantastic and fairytale meeting the mundane, includes Cornerwitches, a collection of short fantasy comics; Elsewhere University, an interactive and collaborative storytelling project; and the Gold Normal Tarot, a foil-accented oracle deck. When they’re not working on creative projects, they can be found sailing historic tall ships up and down the East Coast.

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Enrica Angiolini

Editorial Artist

Eren Enrica Angiolini is a comic colorist and illustrator, with a huge passion for all things fantasy. Best know for their colour work on several DC publications, Titan Comic’s Doctor Who, and Image’s Sex Criminals: Sexual Gary. Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Eren has travelled a lot and lived around the world, and is now based in the UK. When they are not colouring or drawing, they hit people with swords (for real!).

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Hailey Renee Brown

Editorial Artist

Hailey Renee Brown is a field biologist turned professional artist living in Pennsylvania. They attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, NJ, and are the award winning recipient of the 2017 Norman Maurer Memorial Award as well as the 2019 Kubert Jumpstart Project. With a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Michigan State University, Hailey has also contributed to amphibian & reptile preservation and conservation. Hailey has taught kid’s classes at The Kubert School and is a freelance illustrator for a wide assortment of clientele including professional authors, magazines & publications, business owners, Newsarama, Dynamite Entertainment and Ominous Press.

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Suzie Bartholomew

Senior Editor

Suzie Bartholomew hails from Indiana and works for the Indianapolis Public Library. She earned her BA in English from Purdue University North Central (now Northwest) and her MFA in Creative Writing from Butler University. Having fully embraced her inner grandma, she loves to crochet, embroider, and live off of tea while cuddling with her cat. When she’s not working or being crafty, Suzie is focused on writing stories and indulging in serial killer documentaries.

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Sam Gladstone

IT Officer

Sam gave up studying English at the age of sixteen and would never have guessed that he would end up involved with an organization like Brink! Instead, he specializes in the languages of machines, working as a full stack developer by day and helping Brink with any tech-related queries at all times in between. He graduated with a Master of Mathematics from the University of East Anglia and is a passionate diver, helping to introduce people to the underwater world at a local club in Norfolk, UK.

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Eileen Silverthorn

Senior Editor

Eileen is a senior editor at F(r)iction, working on both journal submissions and the occasional review or article for F(r)Log. She loves both fiction and poetry: In fiction, Eileen looks for stories with character-driven narratives blended with detailed writing and speculative genre elements. In poetry, Eileen is drawn to imagery-heavy pieces that are unafraid to experiment with form, line breaks, and language.

Eileen is also a bookseller at the Tattered Cover in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Colorado State University with a BA in English Creative Writing and minors in History and Women’s Interdisciplinary Studies. Inspired by her work with CSU’s undergraduate literary magazine Greyrock Review, Eileen decided to explore a career in publishing through the Denver Publishing Institute. She enjoys spending her time traveling, editing her friends’ fanfiction, reading ten books at once, spending her whole paycheck at her place of employment, and cuddling her cats whilst writing bios about herself in the third person.

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Helen Maimaris

Managing Editor

Helen joined Brink in 2016 as an intern, soon rising to the rank of Chief of Operations, a position she held for nearly 5 years before becoming Brink’s Chief of Staff in 2023. As Chief of Staff, Helen heads up all things staff-related, from the development of new education programs, staff culture practices, and staff management, to the legal and logistical needs of running a nonprofit. When she’s not madly consuming any comic she can get her hands on, she also serves as the Managing Editor of F(r)iction, overseeing the submission pipeline, senior editor team, volunteer training, and production of the journal.

Helen lives in Bristol, UK, and travels extensively, with past adventures including training as a professional scuba diving guide, participating in scientific fieldwork with humpback whales in Ecuador, and one particularly incredible eye-contact encounter with a wild male orangutan.

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Dani Hedlund

Editor-in-Chief & Art Director

Dani Hedlund founded F(r)iction in 2015, striving to create a home for unique and boundary pushing literature. As Editor-in-Chief, Dani grew F(r)iction from a small imprint to one of the fastest growing literary journals in the world, featuring the world’s most famous storytellers alongside diverse, debut talent. Dani sets the publication’s vision, selects each issue’s theme, curates and approves all content, and writes those lovely editor’s notes she’s convinced no one reads. Additionally, Dani acts as Creative Director, guiding each unique issue’s overall design and art direction. As CEO of Brink Literacy Project (F(r)iction‘s nonprofit owner), she ensures that each issue elevates marginalized voices, works as a teaching medium across the globe, and uses storytelling to change lives.

Dani speaks at events all over the world on the importance of literacy and education reform, supporting emerging creatives, and getting people excited about the next generation of literature. She has shared Brink’s mission to spur cultural and political change in the Times, the Sun, KOA radio, CW, Channel 4, Fox 31, and other media.

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Kaitlin Lounsberry

Internship Supervisor & Senior Editor

Kaitlin Lounsberry graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a minor in fiction writing. She also earn her master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University with distinction. While working towards her master’s, Kaitlin was a managing editor for The Garica Boy, published through Big Shoulders Book. She has bylines in The State Journal-Register, The Columbia Chronicle, Pop’Stache, and Chicago Talks. Kaitlin is currently working on her revising first novel, learning Hangul, playing Uno, and attending live concerts in the Chicago area.

At Brink and F(r)iction, Kaitlin leads the Publishing Internship Program, serves as a senior editor, and copyedits/proofreads upcoming F(r)iction issues.

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Thomas Chisholm

Senior Editor

Thomas Chisholm is a freelance editor, creative writer, and an alumnus of The Evergreen State College. He received a year of formal copyediting training from the University of Washington’s editing certificate program, though he especially enjoys cracking a story open and getting into developmental edits. Originally from suburban Detroit, he’s called Seattle home since 2009. His creative work has appeared in Inkwell, Drizzle Review, and Vanishing Point Magazine.

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Jon Schindehette

Contributing Art Director

Jon is a veteran of the marketing, gaming and publishing industries. Through the years, he has worked with clients such as: Disney, Fox Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, ThinkGeek, Harley-Davidson, Microsoft, Kodak, Price Waterhouse, Atari, Activision, Nintendo, Pokémon, Sony Entertainment, CBS, Bioware, Bethesda SoftWorks, Crystal Dynamics, and many more. In his spare time, Jon creates lots of sawdust while building fun woodworking projects.

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C. E. Janecek

Junior Editor & Communications Associate

C. E. Janecek is the internal newsletter wizard of the Brink team, keeping the staff up to date on happenings, deadlines, and projects each month. C. E. recently got their MFA in poetry at Colorado State University and is now a freelance editor and writer—having work featured in Poetry , Booth ,Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. Online at  www.cewritespoems.com.

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Chase Bailey

Junior Editor

Chase Bailey is a baker living in Columbus, OH. He holds a BA in Professional Writing from Miami University and he enjoys learning about the evolution of colloquial language. Chase is a fiend for any book with magic or queer characters—don’t even get him started on queer characters with magic. When he’s not spamming your feed with F(r)iction-related content, Chase enjoys listening to the birds, sharing apples with his dog, and doing yoga. Eventually—eventually—he will put together a chapbook of poetry.

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Asa C. Garber

Legal Advisor

Like many writers, Asa spends most of his time writing drafts, then editing to the point of loving, then hating, then loving what he’s written. A select few read and appreciate his work; the general public either ignores or does not understand it. But such is the life of a lawyer. Asa is the founder of Reason Legal, LLC, providing legal services and consultation to businesses and entrepreneurs. He is a proud supporter of Brink’s many good works.

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Ally Geist

Junior Editor

Ally is a quirky little Canuck living in Toronto, Canada (yes, they do have a lot of maple syrup up there!). She graduated with a BA in Theatre Studies (specializing in Playwriting and Dramaturgy) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She also has a post-grad certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. When Ally is not reading, crying over cute puppy videos on the internet, defending the merits of the Oxford comma, or watching reruns of Schitts Creek, she is most likely lip-synching for her life in her bedroom, pretending she is one of the fabulous Drag Race queens.

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Jaclyn Morken

Junior Editor

Jaclyn is an aspiring writer and editor from Saskatoon, Canada, where she completed an MFA in Writing and BA Hons in English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work can be found in antilang no. 1, Dually Noted (March 2019), and River Volta Review of Books. Jaclyn writes fantasy and speculative fiction.

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Amber Sullivan

Junior Editor

Amber Sullivan is probably hiding in a dark corner somewhere. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English Writing at the University of Colorado in 2018. Her work at Brink includes editing for  F(r)iction  and  F(r)iction Log, reviewing submissions, and other miscellaneous assignments. Her writing can also be found in F(r)iction Log. Fortunately for Amber, Brink is mostly remote, as she usually smells a bit like canned fish after her cat drags her shoes into his food bowl. She spends her time outside of Brink training her apartment demon, working a day job, and feeling like a secret agent while writing fanfiction under an alias.

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Erin Clements

Junior Editor

Erin Clements is an Ohio-based editor and writer who holds a graduate certificate in Publishing from New York University and a BA in English from Ohio Christian University. She loves everything literary, from Shakespeare to the newest fantasy bestseller, and she’ll happily tell you her opinions on everything from Shakespeare’s Dark Lady to how stories could and should be more diverse. When she’s not working as the Senior Community Manager for John Green’s charity book club, Life’s Library, she’s probably listening to podcasts, buying more books than she could ever read, or getting emotional over dogs.

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Sonya Minner

Junior Editor

Sonya Minner is a self-proclaimed writer from western Pennsylvania. She successfully graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing in 2015. Since then, she’s bounced around from place to place. She currently works in an office by day and writes YA fiction (and sometimes hockey articles) by night. If she’s not writing, she’s probably tweeting. One day, she hopes to pay off her student loan debt and publish a best-selling YA novel, just maybe not in that order.

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Evan Sheldon

Editorial Director

Evan lives in Denver, CO and is a graduate from the Denver Publishing Institute. He is the author of Shed the Midnight (Ghost City Press, 2019). His creative work has appeared in over forty different publications and has been translated into Russian. When he is not writing or editing, he is most likely reading to his young daughter or studying the history of weird literature and fairy tales.

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Maribel Leddy

Internship Assistant & Junior Editor

Maribel Leddy graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Writing Seminars. She’s originally from Buffalo, New York, but she now lives in Chicago where she works as an Associate Content Strategist at Yakkety Yak, a digital marketing agency. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, traveling, and eating.

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Drew Nolte

Web Designer

Drew Nolte is a professional designer who decided to take time off work and get an MFA in poetry. Using his web and design knowledge, he looks for projects and opportunities to help the literary world anyway he can. He has been a marketing designer, college web designer, partner in a ruby on rails company, and now leading design for a luxury travel company.

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F(r)iction is run by a dynamic team of experts, industry leaders, and passionate volunteers, bringing together decades of experience in writing, editing, marketing, illustration, and art direction

Executive

Dani Hedlund

Helen Maimaris

Senior

Victoria Bruick

Ejiwa ‘Edge’ Ebenebe

Kaitlin Lounsberry

Nate Ragolia

Valerie San Filippo

Evan Sheldon

Associate

Suzie Bartholomew

Thomas Chisholm

Race Garber

Sam Gladstone

Maribel Leddy

Dominic Loise

Matt Peadon

Eileen Silverthorn

Junior

Azalea Acevedo

Chase Bailey

Eliza Browning

Sam Burt

Erin Clements

Ally Geist

Gina Gruss

C. E. Janecek

Simon Kerr

Asmaani Kumar

Haley Lawson

JP Legarte

Marizel Malan

Sonya Minner

Jaclyn Morken

Alex Schotzko

Amber Sullivan

Intern

Inanna Carter

Zara Garcia

Montanna Harling

Sara Santistevan

Aubrey Unemori

Artist

Enrica Angiolini

Hailey Renee Brown

Tyler Champion

Bradley Clayton

Samantha Dow

Julian Mateus

Daniel Reneau

Contributing

David Abrams

David Galef

Scott O’Connor

Jon Schindehette

Consultant

Asa C. Garber

Drew Nolte

Sara Santistevan

Montanna Harling

Inanna Carter

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