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POETRY EDITOR: MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. His prose has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Ecotone, Flyway, Third Coast, Quarterly West, and About Place Journal. Matty’s poetry has been featured in Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Houston Public Media, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, the anthology Queer Nature, and elsewhere. He is a Black Earth Institute Fellow and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah where he was a recipient of a Vice Presidential Fellowship, the inaugrual Jeff Metcalf Humanities in the Community Fellowship, and a Tanner Graduate Research Fellowship. Matty has taught creative writing at the University of Utah, Westminster University, and the College of William & Mary. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Charleston where he teaches poetry and nonfiction.
FICTION EDITOR: MALINDA MCCOLLUM
Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review – which awarded her the Plimpton Prize – McSweeney’s, ZYZZYVA, Epoch, and StoryQuarterly and were anthologized in The Paris Review Book of People with Problems and The Worst Years of Your Life. She has received a Pushcart Prize, as well as a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at the University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford. At the College of Charleston, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs and serves as Fiction Editor for swamp pink.
NONFICTION EDITOR: AREEJ QURAISHI
Areej Quraishi’s prose has appeared in Passages North, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Normal School, Bellingham Review, BULL, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Wabash Prize for Fiction and has received accolades from Black Warrior Review, Salamander Magazine, and CRAFT Literary among others. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was awarded the President’s UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Bhatnagar Outstanding Creative Writing Award, and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Washington-Seattle, where she won the Grace Milliman Pollock Scholarship for Creative Writing. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop, a Black Mountain Institute fellow, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Witness. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at the College of Charleston.
ADVISING EDITOR: EMILY ROSKO
Emily Rosko is the author of four poetry collections: Thereafter (U Akron P 2027); Weather Inventions (U Akron P 2018); Prop Rockery, awarded the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize, and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. She is co-editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. She is a past recipient of the Stegner and Ruth Lilly fellowships.
ADVISING EDITOR: ANTHONY VARALLO
Anthony Varallo is the author of What Did You Do Today?, winner of the 2023 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (University of North Texas Press), as well as a novel, First Everything, forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2027. His other books include a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press), as well as four previous short story collections: This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press); Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press); Think of Me and I’ll Know (Northwestern University Press); and Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. His short stories have appeared in One Story, Story, The Sun, The New Yorker “Daily Shouts,” American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He has received an NEA Fellowship in Literature and the Pushcart Prize. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa/Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is Professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing. He lives with his family in James Island, South Carolina.
INTERIM MANAGING EDITOR: ALLIE MCCOY
Allie McCoy is a writer from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She received her BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from UNC Chapel Hill. She is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction writing at the College of Charleston where she is also serving as Interim Managing Editor of swamp pink. Outside of school, she works for the Lowcountry Dog Magazine. You can usually find her at the dog park or napping on her couch.
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS:
HALEY J. DELOACH
SARAH HENNING
ABIGAIL LINKOUS
MACEY CLAIRE MACARTHUR
NATALIE MARTUSCIELLO
CAROLINE MATULE
JOANNA NORWOOD
BRIANA SHARPER
MADELYN STEPSKI