Sof Voet
Editor-in-Chief
Sof Voet (they/them) is a queer, trans writer and self-proclaimed cheese curd and custard expert born and raised in northeastern Wisconsin. They hold a B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing-Nonfiction from Miami University where they served on the editorial board for their graduate literary magazine, OxMag Literary Magazine. They are interested in the speculative and much of their writing focuses on their Upper Midwestern identity, Indigenous identity, queerness, transness, and displacement. Outside of academics, they can be found trying to befriend the local dogs. They also enjoy traveling and being outdoors, playing games, and plants. They currently live in Albany, New York with their partner and their Samoyed puppy, Tofu, while they pursue their Ph.D. in English (Writing Practices).
Nikko Capati
Art Editor
Nikko is a Ph.D. student interested in postmodern science fiction, graphic novels, and digital theory. He was born in the Philippines, but later immigrated to the island of Guam. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Guam. As a child of the Equator, he likes to go to the beach. To survive the New York cold, he has been hoarding as many tea bags as legally possible.
Will Pattee
Poetry Editor
Will is pursuing his Ph.D. in English at the University at Albany. His academic concentration focuses on modern poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and mythopoetics. Apart from his studies, Will also writes his own poetry. He enjoys spending time in nature, playing with his dogs, and a good round of cards with friends.
Megan Wilson
Managing Editor
Megan Wilson is a Ph.D. student in the English department at SUNY Albany. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from UMass Amherst and a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester. Her main aspirations are to read a lot and eat pizza.
Gunok Kim
Poetry Editor
Gunok Kim is a Ph.D. student at SUNY Albany in the English Department. She spent most of her life in Korea before she came to the United States. She received an M.A. in English Literature at Texas A&M University. Currently, as a researcher, Gunok explores late nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, media, and film studies, particularly modernism and its historical, sociological, and philosophical contexts in Great Britain, and the relationship between literature and visual culture.
Maggie Zehr
Social Media Manager & Reader
Maggie is currently pursuing a dual master's degree in English and Information Science. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the College of Saint Rose and a Bachelor of Arts in English from SUNY Albany. After working in the control room of a news station for the past six years, she decided to return to school while sharpening her skills in journalism and photography. Aside from school and work, Maggie keeps herself busy with cooking, music, and learning new languages.
Jasmyn Huff
Prose Editor
Jasmyn Huff (she/her) studies writing at the Ph.D. level. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Door = Jar, XRAY, Bending Genres, Defunct Magazine, Stone of Madness, and Bullshit Lit. In the past she worked as American Literary Review’s Associate Essays Editor.
Kehinde Adejumo
Prose Editor
Kehinde is a Graduate Student in the Master of Arts in English program at the University at Albany. She is a freelance writer for Parlé Magazine with bylines in Glitter Magazine and UAlbany Magazine. When she is not focusing on being a prose editor for Barzakh, she loves catching up on a TV show, listening to Afrobeats, or reading a good YA book.
Jay Plastino
Reader
I’m currently in the dual degree program at UAlbany for my MA in English and MS in Information Science, and in my free time I like to knit and crochet, read, and learn languages!
Ky Krause
Reader
Ky Krause is currently a part of the BA/MA English program at SUNY Albany with a minor in Creative Writing. Outside of academics, Ky enjoys writing poetry and short stories, playing with their pug Percy, and devouring any and all kinds of horror media.
Lily Magurno
Reader
Lily is a student in the University at Albany’s combined B.A./M.A. program. She is working towards completing her B.A. in English and Journalism in the Spring of 2026 while pursuing a M.A. degree in English. She has a special interest in reading and writing prose, specifically short fiction. Her favorite classes she has taken at the University at Albany are creative writing workshops. When she’s not busying herself with her course work, she can be found buying an abundance of notebooks to write her story drafts in.
Tayla Straub
Reader
Sam Parish
Reader
Winter 2024
Sof Voet – Editor-in-Chief
Shaw Patton – Managing Editor
Sophia Schulz – Social Media Manager/Reader
Atrayee Guha – Prose Editor
Nikko Capati – Prose Editor
Megan Wilson – Poetry Editor
Will Pattee – Poetry Editor
Devin Jinadasa – Reader
Kris Ferber – Reader
Bri Thompson – Reader
Peter Ansah – Reader
Maggie Zehr – Reader
Gunok Kim – Reader
Summer 2023
Christy O’Callaghan - Editor-in-Chief
Sof Voet - Managing Editor
Danni Beltran - Managing Editor
Sudarshan Ramani - Prose Editor
Brandon Gehres - Prose Editor
Will Pattee - Poetry Editor
Megan Wilson - Poetry Editor
Sophia Schulz - Social Media Manager/ Associate Editor
Gunok Kin - Associate Editor
Zahra Hamdani - Associate Editor
Linfeng Li - Associate Editor
Sarah Smith-Warring - Associate Editor
Farhana Islam - Associate Editor
Shaw Patton - Associate Editor
Paul Lashway - Associate Editor
Devin Jinadasa - Editorial Intern
C. Connor Syrewicz - Editor Emeritus
Winter 2023
Christy O’Callaghan - Editor-in-Chief
Sof Voet - Managing Editor
Danni Beltran - Managing Editor
C. Connor Syrewicz - Editor-at-Large
Sudarshan Ramani - Prose Editor
Brandon Gehres - Prose Editor
Verónica Jordán-Sardi - Poetry Editor
Kyle Macy - Poetry Editor
Sophia Schulz - Social Media Manager/ Associate Editor
Will Pattee - Associate Editor
Megan Wilson - Associate Editor
Gunok Kin - Associate Editor
Zahra Hamdani - Associate Editor
Linfeng Li - Associate Editor
Sarah Smith-Warring - Associate Editor
Farhana Islam - Associate Editor
Shaw Patton - Associate Editor
Paul Lashway - Associate Editor
Shirley Chen - Editorial Intern
Devin Jinadasa - Editorial Intern
Summer 2022
C. Connor Syrewicz - Editor-in-Chief
Christy O’Callaghan - Managing Editor and Visual Arts Editor
Juliana Haliti - Visual Arts Editor
Sudarshan Ramani - Prose Editor
Verónica Jordán-Sardi - Poetry Editor
Kyle Macy - Poetry Editor
Shirley Chen - Editorial Intern
Devin Jinadasa - Editorial Intern
Winter 2022
Kevin Kilroy - Co-Editor-in-Chief
C. Connor Syrewicz - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Christy O’Callaghan - Managing Editor and Visual Arts Editor
Juliana Haliti - Visual Arts Editor
Sudarshan Ramani - Prose Editor
Verónica Jordán-Sardi - Poetry Editor
Kyle Macy - Poetry Editor
Sarah Warring - Associate Editor
Cam A. Faccio - Associate Editor
Em Pollicino - Associate Editor
Spring 2021
Kevin Kilroy - Co-Editor-in-Chief
C. Connor Syrewicz - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Wilsinia Ocasio - Managing Editor
Juliana Haliti - Visual Arts Editor
Annika Nerf - Visual Arts Editor
Sudarshan Ramani - Prose Editor
Julia Mason - Prose Editor
Verónica Jordán-Sardi - Poetry Editor
Kyle Macy - Poetry Editor
Kira Gardiner - Intern
Spring 2020
Yolande Schutter - Editor-in-Chief
C. Connor Syrewicz - Managing Editor & Prose Editor
Annika Nerf - Poetry Editor & Prose Editor
Kevin Kilroy - Poetry Editor
Hilary Remley - Visual Arts Editor & Associate Editor
Juliana Haliti - Visual Arts Editor
Corri Wells - Special Guest Section Editor: “On Incarceration”.
Kianni Brown - Intern, Managing Editor, & Associate Editor
Lily Pratt - Editorial Assistant
Noah Kucij
Angélica Schubert
Angelica Reilly
Craig Reardon
Grace Greene
Kaitlyn McCarthy
Spring 2019
Ben Nadler – Co-Editor-in-Chief
Yolande Schutter – Co-Editor-in-Chief
Victorio Reyes Asili – Poetry Editor
Janna Urschel – Prose Editor
Kennedy Coyne – Managing Editor
Kiana Flores – Intern
Kevin Kilroy
Brenna Croker
Malcolm Flanigan
Annika Nerf
Spring 2018
Laurin DeChae – Editor-in-Chief
Victorio Reyes Asili – Poetry Editor
Ben Nadler – Fiction Editor
Nikki Consentino – Nonfiction Editor
Kennedy Coyne – Managing Editor
Erin He – Intern
Janna Urschel
Yolande Schutter
Stacie Klinowski
Katt Corah-Stefanik
Joshua Keller