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Ira Sukrungruang

Founding Editor Ira Sukrungruang is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and Southside Buddhist (memoirs), In Thailand It is Night (poetry), The Melting Season (stories), and co-editor of the fat books What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. His favorite candy is anything that has sour-sucking power and unhinges his jaw because of extreme gumminess.

Katherine Riegel

Founding Editor Katherine Riegel–who goes by Katie–is the author of Love Songs from the End of the World, Letters to Colin Firth, What the Mouth Was Made For, and Castaway. She writes for The Gloria Sirens, and tries to take her vitamin Ch (chocolate, of course) every day.

K.C. Wolfe

Founding editor K.C. Wolfe earned his MFA at an institution in the Midwest, after considerable layovers in the Western parts of these United States. His essays and short stories have been seen in Gulf Coast, The Sun, Swink, Harvard Review, Redivider, Prime Number, Under the Sun, Cleaver Magazine and other publications. He lives, on average, in St. Petersburg, FL.

Robert Annis – Poetry Editor

Robert Annis received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He was nominated for the 2013 and 2014 AWP Intro Journals Project, and won the Bettye Newman Poetry Award in 2014, and the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize in 2015. His poetry has appeared in Exit 7, American Tanka, Foothill, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and the Noctua Review.

Ryan Cheng – Poetry Editor

Ryan Cheng received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida. He was awarded the 2013 AWP Intro Journal Entry Award for poetry and the Bettye Newman Poetry Award in 2013. His poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Tampa, Florida where he teaches professional writing at the University of South Florida and serves as a board member of YellowJacket Press, an independent small poetry press and the only publisher of poetry chapbook manuscripts in Florida. When he’s not teaching, he is probably somewhere eating phở, the cure-all.

Lauren Cross

Lauren Cross was a finalist for Fourth Genre’s 2020 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest, and her work has appeared in Catapault. You can usually find her admiring pastries at one of her favorite writing haunts.

Haley Morton – Fan Mail & Book Review Editor

Haley Morton writes poetry and lives in Tampa, Florida where she is completing her MFA at the University of South Florida. She has a B.S. in Behavioral Healthcare and sees Creative Writing and Mental Health as two things crucial to understanding what it is to be human. Her obsessions are swamps, sea grapes, the body, and the U.S. Postal Service.

Leslie Salas – Graphic Editor

Leslie Salas holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida and is a graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute. She has edited (or co-edited) several books, including the Other Orlandos anthology, Condoms & Hot Tubs Don’t Mix: An Anthology of Awkward Sexcapades, and several forthcoming academic collections. Her work has been published in The Southeast Review, Ghost Parachute, Plane Tree Journal, and more. She teaches humanities and communication courses, serves on the board of the Florida College English Association, is an occasional co-host for The Drunken Odyssey podcast, and writes for The Gloria Sirens. Her favorite confections are dairy-free and covered in sprinkles.

Alysia Sawchyn – Nonfiction Editor

Alysia Sawchyn currently lives in Northern Virginia and teaches professional writing at a nearby university. Her writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. You can usually find her hiking, in a yoga studio, or on Twitter. She is working on a collection of micro memoirs and is a great admirer of all sorts of pastries. More butter, more better.

Zachary Lundgren

Zachary Lundgren received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida and his BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and grew up in northern Virginia. He has had poetry published in several literary journals and magazines including The Louisville Review, The Portland Review, Barnstorm Journal, The Adirondack Review, and the University of Colorado Honors Journal.

Nikki Lyssy

Nikki Lyssy is an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida, where she studies creative nonfiction. She has work published in Hobart, Essay Daily, and Sweet, and is currently writing a memoir about her experiences growing up completely blind. When she is not reading or writing, she can be found enjoying the Florida sunshine and a cup of coffee.

Andrew Miles

Andrew Miles hails from Northwest Indiana. He received a BA in English from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. While there, he served as a prose editor for The Broken Plate. At present, he writes nonfiction and poetry while pursuing an MFA at the University of South Florida. Drew loves classic cinema and deep dish pizza. During the summer of 2018, he did an 11,000-mile cross-country road trip with friends.

Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson lives in Tampa, Florida where she’s finishing her MFA at the University of South Florida. She’s a nurse and musician with a B.S. in Ecology and a B.S. in Nursing. She’s worked as a high school science teacher, for the DEP, ecology research assistant, and most recently critical care nurse. She loves science and creative writing equally and won’t give either of them up. Her obsessions include being human, guitars, and wildlife. You can find her words in Speculative Nonfiction, Sweet, and Mud Season Review.

Deedra Wollert

Although a Colorado native, Deedra graduated from the University of South Carolina-Aiken with a BS in Business Administration and from the University of South Florida with a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology. Her 15 year administrative tenure at USF in the English department keeps her busy wrangling cats (faculty) and occasionally teaching engineers. She has joined Sweet as a jack of all trades, including finances, typesetting, chapbook making, and cat wrangling (editors). Her claim to fame is being mommy to Bodhi, the unofficial Sweet mascot.

Andy Braithwaite

Andy graduated The University of Salford with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering when programs were written on punch cards. Andy is a Flight Simulator Engineer during the day working on Sweet in his fun time. The second best Sweet going is frozen McVities HobNobs dunked in a good cup of tea. Taylor’s of Harrogate – Yorkshire Tea of course, not as though there is any other.

Nicholas Brown

Nicholas Brown graduated from Auburn University with a B.A. in English. Since graduating, he has worked as a door-to-door salesman and middle school teacher before pursuing his MFA in fiction at The University of South Florida. He enjoys coffee, Tiramisu, assorted deli meats, and creating hand-made furniture with the help of drills and large saws, which he’s found makes the process infinitely easier.

Anabel Barnett

Anabel Barnett is a student at Kenyon College majoring in English and Spanish. She loves reading, listening to music from the latter half of the 20th century, and talking. She really loves talking.

Lily Beeson-Norwitz

Lily Beeson-Norwitz is a freshman at Kenyon College from Portland, Oregon. She is also a student associate at the Kenyon Review and plans to major in English. Outside of school she likes to take photos, write, and hike.

Molly Fording

Molly Fording is a first year student at Kenyon College from Westport, Connecticut. She plans on majoring in English, and the three loves of her life are reading, knitting, and the Australian television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. All her favorite candy is sour.

Zoe Lennox

Zoe Lennox graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s in History. She currently works as a substitute teacher, and is preparing to travel Europe while working on her first poetry chapbook.