Editors

Holly Eva Allen is a queer, chronically ill writer currently living in Southern California and attending Claremont Graduate University for English. She has an undergraduate degree in English and Linguistics from the University of California. Her prose, essays, and poetry have been previously published in magazines, blogs, and collections such as Funicular, Snarl Journal, Farside Review, and saltfront. Holly Eva is the assistant Prose Editor for Passengers Journal and the Editor-in-Chief of Horned Things Journal. Holly Eva hopes to one day teach English at the college level while writing and pursuing research in queer theory and disability studies.

Lauren Davila | Co-Editor in Chief

Lauren Davila is a writer currently pursuing her MA in English at Claremont Graduate University. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from George Mason University and dual BAs in English and Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. After completing her studies, she plans to teach English at the collegiate level while publishing poetry and fiction. Her writing has appeared in Granada Magazine, The Paragon Journal, Peach Velvet Mag, In Parentheses, and Poets Reading the News. She lives in Claremont, where you can find her writing in any of the local coffee shops.

Emily Schuck | Deputy Editor

Emily Schuck is a PhD candidate in English at Claremont Graduate University. She writes occasionally for the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Blog and teaches at University of La Verne.

Stacey Park | Deputy Editor

Stacey Park is a PhD student in English at Claremont Graduate University. Her scholarly interests include contemporary American poetry, digital humanities, and critical theory. Her poems have appeared in The Underwater Railroad, The Cortland Review, Curator Magazine, the Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing with a specialization in poetry from California State University, Long Beach, an MA in English literature from the University of Toronto, and a BA in English with honors from Biola University.

Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn | Editor

Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn is a second-year MA student in English literature at Claremont Graduate University. He has lived in Claremont, CA his entire life and attended California Polytechnic University, Pomona for his BA in English Literature. His primary focus is in Dante’s Divine Comedy and fantasy literature. Cassady writes poetry in his free time for his personal blog, where he has been exploring his creative voice daily since 2016. When he isn’t nose-deep in a book, Cassady enjoys spending his time playing with his dogs and exploring the wilderness.

Brian F. McCabe | Editor

Brian F. McCabe holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and a master’s degree in Irish literature and culture from Boston College. Brian’s scholarly publications include work on playwright Brian Friel and poet Patrick Kavanagh. His poems have been published in the Gonzaga Bulletin, East Jasmine Review, St. Sebastian Review, Spiritus, and Badlands Literary Journal.

AJ Gallop | Editor

AJ is a second year MA student in the English department. They received their undergraduate degree in English Literature from Scripps college and pursues creative writing and multimedia projects in their free time. Their scattered interests include: Greek Mythology, Herman Melville, Shakespeare, some theory, and sniffing out queer subtext in anything and everything ever written.

Elizabeth “Bess” Mobley | Editor

Bess is in the PhD program in English at Claremont Graduate University. She earned her MA in English at Purdue in 2015 and was teaching college composition at community colleges in Houston until her move to California. She has written poetry reviews for Gutter Snob Books and Blotterature. She’s designed book covers for Punk Hostage Press, and she’s published poetry in The Bayou Review and Silent Spark Press. She loves anime (especially Naruto), and spends a lot of time reading comics and manga, being outdoors, painting, writing, and just trying to enjoy life

Mia Contreras | Editor