Editorial Staff

Section Editors

Jen Michalski (Managing and Founding Editor) is a queer writer of four novels, All This Can Be True (June 2025, Turner/Key Light), The Summer She Was Under Water (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), The Tide King (Black Lawrence Press 2013), and You’ll Be Fine (NineStar Press, 2021), a couplet of novellas, Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books 2013), and three collections of fiction (The Company of Strangers [Braddock Avenue Books 2023]; From Here, 2014; and Close Encounters, 2007). Her work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including Poets & Writers, The Washington Post, and the Literary Hub, and she’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize seven times. In 2013, she was named as “One of 50 Women to Watch” by The Baltimore Sun and “Best Writer” by Baltimore Magazine. She is the former host of the fiction reading series in Baltimore, Starts Here!

CarlaJean Valluzzi (Senior Poetry Editor/Chapbook Designer) hails from the beautiful Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, received her BFA from MassArt, and her MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She creates {mostly} paper-based ephemera; assembles objects as well as words to suit the weather and other chaos-based phenomena. Birthdays are spent sleeping among wild ponies. Hand lettering comes naturally, and often appears on the windows and chalkboards of a local indie bookstore. A chapbook exists, You Can Not Click On This, as well as a full-length collection: Part With Never, and work will or has appeared in Espresso Ink, Artichoke Haircut, Hidden City Quarterly, the Found Poetry Review, Open Letters Monthly, The Light Ekphrastic, and elsewhere. Sometimes characters go live at imisspaperletters.com, or you can find things on the facebook.

Ashlie Kauffman (Contributing Poetry Editor/Chapbook Editor) has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, an MA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland. Her recognitions include an Individual Artist Award in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is the recipient of a 2018 Rubys Artist Grant in Literary Arts from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

Hannah Grieco (Contributing Creative Nonfiction Editor) is a writer and teacher in Washington, DC. In addition to being the senior cnf editor at JMWW, she edits for Alan Squire Publishing, Alternating Current Press, and Porcupine Literary. Her essays can be read in The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Brevity, Pithead Chapel, Huffington Post, and more. Find her online at www.hgrieco.com and on Twitter @writesloud.

Curtis Smith (Interviews Editor) has published more than 100 stories and essays, and his work has appeared in or been cited by The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Spiritual Writing, The Best Short Fictions, and Norton Anthology New Microfictions. He’s worked with independent publishers to put out two chapbooks of flash fiction, three story collections, two essay collections, five novels, and a work of creative nonfiction. His latest book, The Magpie’s Return, was named as one of Kirkus Review’s top Indie releases of 2020

Michael B. Tager (Contributing Fiction Editor) is a writer and editor. He is mostly vegetables. He can be found at michaelbtager.com and on Twitter at @iamragesparkle.

Margaret Adams (Senior Fiction Editor) is a short story writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in Joyland Magazine, The Pinch Journal, Monkeybicycle, and The Baltimore Review, among other publications. She is the winner of the Blue Mesa Review 2018 Nonfiction Contest and the Pacifica Literary Review 2017 Fiction Contest. Her website is www.margaret-adams.com. Follow her on Twitter at @megbeingthere.

Juliet Way-Henthorne (Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor) is a writer/editor based in Santa Barbara, California. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she received a Center for Arts and Social Justice Thesis Fellowship, which she used to explore biracial Asian-American identity. Juliet proudly serves as Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor for jmww and has worked with the journal since 2020. Juliet also works with VCFA’s Hunger Mountain Review, and her work has been featured in Anak Sastra Literary Journal, AAWW’s The Margins, Diode Editions, and elsewhere. Juliet’s current writing interests focus on othered identities, grief & trauma, and feminist humor.

Bradley David’s (Senior Editor, Blended & Beyond) poetry, fiction, essays, and beyond-genre pieces appear in Terrain, Allium, Rougarou, Fatal Flaw, Always Crashing, Anti-Heroin Chic, Identity Theory, and numerous others. His creative nonfiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Selected work at https://linktr.ee/bradleydavid. On Twitter @strangecamera and Instagram @mystrangecamera.

Maryam Shadmehr (Senior Fiction Editor) writes and edits from Emeryville, California where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her work has been published in Masque and Spectacle, Cider Press Review, Overtly Lit, and elsewhere. You can learn more about her on maryamshadmehr.wordpress.com or connect on Twitter and IG @maryamshadmehr.

Kristin Bonilla’s (Senior Flash Fiction Editor) work appears in Best Microfiction 2022 and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. She lives with her husband and son in Houston, TX. Follow her @kbonilla and read more at http://www.kristinbonilla.com.

Flash Fiction

Jolene McIlwain‘s (Associate Flash Fiction Editor) work has appeared in West Branch, Cincinnati Review, New Orleans Review, CRAFT, Florida Review’s Aquifer, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. Her short story collection, SIDLE CREEK, is forthcoming from Melville House in Spring 2023. She was born, raised, and currently lives in a small town in western Pennsylvania with her family. Follow her at @jolene_mcilwain.

Lyndsie Manusos’s (Associate Flash Fiction Editor) fiction has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Barrelhouse, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and other publications. She also writes for Book Riot and Publishers Weekly, writing and reviewing across genres. Lyndsie lives in Indianapolis with her family, often chasing her two young children, and works as a bookseller for Wild Geese Bookshop.

Lauren Woods‘s (Associate Flash Fiction Editor)  lives and writes in Washington, DC. She is also a mother and works in foreign policy by day. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in The Antioch Review, Fiction Southeast, The Normal School, Lit Hub, The Writer, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net.

Fiction

Robin Bissett (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Teaching Artist and Writer from Central Texas. She enjoys absorbing and sharing stories and strengthening her surrounding literary communities. Her flash fiction is published in Burning House Press, TEJASCOVIDO, and Riot Act Magazine. She tweets @rtbissett.

Charlie Hope-D’Anieri (Associate Fiction Editor) has fiction forthcoming in the Eunoia Review. His journalism has been published on websites including The Guardian and The New Republic and in the pages of Mother Jones, Sierra, and others. He lives in Baltimore. Find him on his website charliehopedanieri.me and on Twitter @hopedanieri.

Rachel Farber (Associate Fiction Editor) is a writer and editor based in Oakland, California, where she lives with her wife. She holds a BA in the Study of Women and Gender from Smith College. She writes audio descriptions for video, and on the weekends, explores the Bay Area on her bicycle.

Madison Krchnavy (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Baltimore-based community art worker and editor.

Julieanne Larick (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Best of the Net-nominated poet attending college in Ohio. Her work has been recognized by The Academy of American Poets, Hollins University, The Young Writers’ Initiative, and AWP. She has writing in GASHER Journal, perhappened mag, Eunoia Review, Kissing Dynamite, and more. Julieanne reads for GASHER Journal and edits fiction for jmww Journal. She tweets @crookyshanks. Find her work at http://www.julielarickwriting.com.

Maxwell Suzuki (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Japanese American queer writer who lives in Los Angeles. Maxwell’s work has appeared in trampset, Anti-Heroin Chic, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and The Hellebore. Follow him @papasuzuki.

Robert Herbst (Associate Fiction Editor) is a writer and violinist based in Chicago. His work has been published or is forthcoming at Gulf Coast, CRAFT, RHINO Poetry, Witness, and other publications. He is a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and he enjoys the company of his dog, Reba, who is a very good girl. You can read his fiction at robbieherbst.com.

Chiyeung Lau (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Chinese American writer from Queens, NY. He currently resides in Philadelphia with his spouse and their two cats. In his spare time, he rescues, fosters, and homes stray cats with his spouse. Together, they also run a pop-up bookstore called Book Harvest, which centers in A&PI authors and stories. Chiyeung is a Tin House and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop alumnus and his work has appeared in Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Interstellar Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Melissa Ren (Associate Fiction Editor) is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine‘s Fiction Contest judged by Heather O’Neill, a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, and an editor at Tales & Feathers. Her writing has appeared or forthcoming in Factor Four Magazine, MetaStellar, Fusion Fragment, and elsewhere. Find her at linktr.ee/MelissaRen or follow @melisfluous on Twitter & Instagram.

Creative Nonfiction

Shareen K. Murayama (Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor) is a writer and educator. Her first chapbooks, HEY GIRL, ARE YOU IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP? by Harbor Editions and HOUSEBREAK by Bad Betty Press will be published in 2022. She’s a 2021 Best Microfiction winner as well as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. Her art is published or forthcoming in Pilgrimage Press, SoFloPoJo, SWWIM, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. You can find her on IG & Twitter @ambusypoeming.

Guillermo Rebollo Gil (Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor) (San Juan, 1979) is a writer, sociology professor, translator and attorney. His publications include poetry in Fence, Poetry Northwest, Second Factory, and Whale Road Review; literary criticism in Annulet and The Smart Set; scholarly articles in the Journal of Autoethnography, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and Liminalities. Book-length translations include I’ll Trade you this Island (2018) by Cindy Jiménez-Vera and Recetas Naturales para el Mundo Fenomenal (2017) by Sommer Browning. In 2020, the Spanish publisher Ediciones Liliputenses published a selection of his poetry under the title Informe de Logros: poemas 2000-2019. He is the author of Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment (2018) and Whiteness in Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss (2023). He belongs to/with Lucas Imar, Elián Iré, and Ariadna Michelle. Happily so.

Imani Cauthen-Robinson (Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor) lives in Baltimore, MD, and writes for a living in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in Professional Writing from Towson University. Her poetry can be found in Rigorous and Nextpageink, and she enjoys writing essays and fiction. When she’s not caring for her toddler, putting pen to paper, or trying to catch up on sleep, she can be found in down dog on her yoga mat.

Olga Katsovskiy (Associate Creative Nonfiction Editor) is a writer/editor based in Boston, MA. Her essays have been published in Barzakh Magazine, Nixes Mate Review, Gone Lawn Journal, Prose Online, Atticus Review: The Attic, and others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and a Master of Health Administration. She is a writing instructor at Cambridge Center for Adult Education and works in a non-profit healthcare organization. Olga is moved by works that show vulnerability and explore human connection. She enjoys pieces that are structured around singular experiences, using sensory details to draw the reader in. Connect with her on Instagram @theweightofaletter and read more of her work at theweightofaletter.com