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Co-Founders

Creative Director, Visual Narrative Editor

Nico Léger (he/they) is a Boston-based writer and artist with an MFA from Emerson College and BA from Brandeis University. They are a co-founder of Fork Apple Press, where they work as the Creative Director and Visual Narrative Editor. He can be found @nicocleger on Instagram.

Poetry Editor

Katie Mihalek is a poet, editor, and educator living in Somerville, MA. She is the Poetry Editor and a co-founder of Fork Apple Press. She is the author of Aurora Uteralis, a chapbook from Finishing Line Press. She holds an M.S. in Medical Sciences from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Southampton Writers Conference, and was the 2024-2025 Community Engagement Fellow for Mass Poetry. Her work can be found in Frontier, TIMBER, Sheila-Na-Gig, Beyond Words, and others. Find her online at www.katiemihalek.com

Prose Editor

Vivian Walman-Randall is a writer and scholar from Southern California. In her work, she’s interested in exploring themes of environment, feminism, climate change, and cyclicity. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently working on her PhD in English with a creative writing emphasis at Oklahoma State University. She is a Co-Founder and the Prose Editor of Fork Apple Press. Her work can be read in the Santa Barbara Literary Journal, and is forthcoming in Yellow Arrow. Vivian currently lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma with her partner and their standard poodle, Clover. Find her on the web at www.vivianwalmanrandall.com

Cameron Schoettle is a trans, queer writer and editor living in the Boston area, and an MFA grad of Emerson College where they were the managing editor of Redivider. They work as a proofreader for Penguin Random House and as a copy editor for Page Street Publishing. Their fiction has been published in PseudoPod, The Dodge, and elsewhere. Their cats are better than yours.

Jasmine Basuel is a New Jersey grown writer with an MFA from Emerson College. Their work largely deals with queer Asian American experiences, though no subject is off limits. Beyond writing, they teach and walk their dog—though, these activities are still quite writerly. They have work in Bodega Magazine, The Core Review, and upcoming work in Lunch Ticket.

Maddie Barone is a queer poet living in the Southern United States. Their work has appeared in The Madison Review, Miracle Monocle, Pedestal Magazine and elsewhere.

Autumn H. Thomas is a graduate of Hollins University in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She now lives in beautiful Prescott Arizona continuing the art of observation while editing Woodsqueer Literary Journal. Her other work can be read in Exist Otherwise, Active Muse, The Hunger, Belt Review, Children Churches and Daddies, and Cleaver.

Molly Frank is a writer and scholar from Northeast Ohio. In her scholarly work she examines issues of feminism, global politics, and identity in speculative fiction. Through her creative work, she is drawn to themes of relationships between women, including romantic, platonic, and familial, cycles of history, and a sense of physical and metaphorical belonging. She has an MA in Literary Studies from Queen's University Belfast and a BA in English Literature from Westminster College. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English Screen Studies at Oklahoma State University. When not buried in stacks of dusty books or hunched over a computer screen, Molly can be found outside, grounding herself with the literal ground.

Sofia Grady shoots tequila, likes to dance, and perpetually has somewhere she should have been twenty minutes ago. She graduated from Emerson College with a Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction Writing in the winter of 2023. In her work, Sofia strives for uncomfortable vulnerability—to place emotions on the page not often expressed, in hopes of inspiring audiences to do the same. Currently, she works as a fitness instructor in Boston, Massachusetts.