Editor-in-Chief: Ariadne A. Macquarie
Ariadne A. Macquarie (she/they) is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches. She earned her BA in Creative Writing from Roanoke College. She is originally from Western North Carolina, but in a past life, she worked as a Wildlife Conservationist in Northern Arizona. Her work focuses on queer and trans narratives within the broader context of life in Southern Appalachia. She is the editor-in-chief of both New Limestone Review and On Gaia Literary Magazine, and a staff reader for Sundress Publications. Her poetry, fiction, and photography can be found in YNST Magazine, The Red Branch Review, Women of Appalachia, and elsewhere. She is on Instagram @flameazaleas.
Poetry Editor: Samantha Ratcliffe
Samantha Ratcliffe (she/they) is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches. She earned her BA in Secondary Education from Eastern Kentucky University. She's a former high school English teacher who lives for poetic community. She's the founder of Hill Writers Collective, a reading series and writing collective focused on uplifting regional voices. Musician, podcast creator, and editor for Broadstone Books and Backwoods Literary Press, Ratcliffe is interested in highlighting the experiences of queer Kentuckians in her writing and scholarship.
Fiction Editor: Cayenne Bareng
Cayenne Bareng (she/her) is an MFA candidate in Fiction at the University of Kentucky. Her work focuses on themes exploring the intersection of cultures, as well as relationships with the self, with others, and with nature. As both a musician and a writer, she loves to blend lyricism with storytelling and often implements juxtaposition, metaphors and imagery to convey these thematic observations and allow readers to interpret them through their own learned experience.
Editorial Assistants:
Crystal Little
Azhane Pollard
Carissa Schutzman
Dani Summerlin
Anthony Ukwuoma
Victor Unachukwu
Elizabeth Von Mann
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Milward
Andrew Milward was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the author of the story collections The Agriculture Hall of Fame, which was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction by the University of Massachusetts, and I Was a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2015), which was awarded the Friends of American Writers Literature Award. His fiction has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and appeared in many places, including Zoetrope, American Short Fiction, VQR, The Southern Review, Guernica, as well as Best New American Voices. His first book of nonfiction, Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball was released Fall 2019. Milward has served as the McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Former Editors
January 2025 – May 2025
Editor-in-Chief + Non-Fiction Editor: Bell McEntire
Fiction Co-Editor: Cayenne Bareng
Fiction Co-Editor: Kimi Hardesty
Poetry Editor: Samantha Ratcliffe
January 2024 – December 2025
Editor-in-Chief + Fiction Editor: Jaydon Pritchard
Web Editor + Fiction + Poetry Editor: Katie Limberg
Nonfiction + Poetry Editor: Jeremy Tavares
January 2024 – May 2024
Nonfiction + Poetry Editor: Mallory Donoghue
January 2023 – December 2023
Editor-in-Chief + Nonfiction Editor: Akhira Mahal
Poetry Editor: Kate Arden
Fiction Editor: Nick Ruma
August 2022 – May 2023
Editor: Henry Knollenberg
Editor: Clay Shields
Editor: Daniel Collins
Faculty Advisor: Frank X Walker
February 2021 – May 2022
Editor: Allegra Solomon
Editor: Peyton Howard
Editor: Kevin Bond
February 2020 – May 2021
Editor-in-Chief: Gavin Colton
Editor-in-Chief: Emily M. Goldsmith
Fiction Editor: Chan Kelly
Poetry Editor: Gabby Oliver
March 2019 – February 2020
Editor-in-Chief: Zeke Perkins
Managing Editor: Kimberly Glanzman
Fiction Editor: Michael McEwen
Poetry Editor: Dane Ritter
Podcast & Social Media Editor: Ash Baker
Web & Art Editor: Kaylen Rose
April 2018 – February 2019
Editor-in-Chief: Omaria Sanchez Pratt
Managing Editor: Isabelle Johnson
Fiction Editor: Taylor Sarratt
Poetry Editor: Tiara Brown
Digital Media Editor: Jeremy Flick
May 2017 – April 2018
Editor-in-Chief: Kate Tighe-Pigott
Managing Editor: Evan Arneson
Fiction Editor: Austin Baurichter
Poetry Editor: Sophie Weiner
Nonfiction Editor: Austyn Gaffney
January 2017 – May 2017
Editors-in- Chief: Jordan Hubrich & Amanda Corbin
Senior Editors: Chad Gilpin & Gary Thomas Smith
Interns: Chelsie Abney, Kate Heinonen & Julia Mikulec
Faculty Advisors: Julia Johnson & Gurney Norman