Zach Peckham
Editor
Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and teacher. He is the author of the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo Press, 2026), and the chapbooks Full Denim Gimp Suit (Illicit Zines / b l u s h, 2026) and cycle hum (Sistrum Books, 2025). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Annulet, APARTMENT, Oversound, Always Crashing, Poetry Northwest, Chicago Review, and elsewhere.
He has held editorial positions with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and the Cleveland Review of Books, and has taught at Cleveland State, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Colby College where he served as the Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence from 2025-2026.
Peckham is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Colby College, where he teaches courses in Creative Writing and Publishing and serves as Faculty Editor of The Colby Review. He runs the small press Community Mausoleum and the journal Coma. He lives in Maine.
Christian Wessels
EDITOR
Christian Wessels is a poet and critic. He is the author of Who Follow the Gleam (University of Massachusetts Press), selected for the 2025 Juniper Prize for Poetry.
He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Rochester, where he received his PhD in English.
The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stadler Center for Poetry, his poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, and Conjunctions, among other such outlets. His critical and scholarly work has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Middle Eastern Literatures, and Literary Imagination.
He splits his time between Rochester and the Black Forest, Germany.