Editor-in-Chief: Kenzie Smith

Fiction Editor: Nesha Ruther

Poetry Editor: Bryn Studer

Creative Nonfiction Editor: Jennifer Ford

Faculty Advisor: Erik Reece
Erik Reece is the author of ten books of nonfiction and poetry, most recently CLEAR CREEK: TOWARD A NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (nonfiction) and KINGFISHER BLUES (poetry.) His book LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS won Columbia University’s John. B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award for Environmental Excellence. His work has appeared, in HARPER’S, ORION, THE ATLANTIC, THE OXFORD AMERICAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and elsewhere. 

Erik grew up in Louisville, studied with Guy Davenport at the University of Kentucky, and has been teaching writing and literature at UK since 1997. He is currently at work on a collection of essays about rivers, fly fishing and friendship. 

Former Editors

January 2026 – May 2026

Editor-in-Chief: Samantha Ratcliffe
Fiction Editor: Lora Smith
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Carissa Schutzman
Poetry Editor: Victor Unachukwu
Visual Arts Editor: Elizabeth Von Mann

August 2025 – December 2025

Editor-in-Chief: Ariadne A. Macquarie
Fiction Editor: Cayenne Bareng
Poetry Editor: Samantha Ratcliffe

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