Editor: Prose/CNF
Diane Gottlieb
Diane Gottlieb’s (she/her) essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in About Place Journal, The VIDA Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, Brevity blog, and Entropy, among others. She is a nonfiction finalist in Tiferet’s 2021Writing Contest and is the 2021 Dancing in the Rain fellow at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Diane has an MSW, an MEd, and received her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles where she served as lead editor of creative nonfiction for Lunch Ticket. Since her acceptance for Issue 20, she has joined the Masthead of Emerge Literary Journal as the Prose/CNF Editor. You can find her at https://dianegottlieb.com and on Twitter @DianeGotAuthor.
Editor: Poetry
Alisha Escobedo
Alisha Escobedo (she/her/hers) has her work published in Gertrude Press, The Acentos Review, Ghost City Review, Sentience Literary Journal, Soul in Space, The Los Angeles Press, and Desolate Country: We the Poets, United, Against Trump. She received her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and she is currently pursuing an MS in psychology. As poetry editor for Emerge Literary Journal, she appreciates words that make her think and feel while pushing boundaries. Alisha resides in Wiesbaden, Germany, with her wife and two fur babies. You can find her posting food, forest walks, or books she’s reading at @ayescobe on IG.
Poetry Editor Emeritus: Theresa Edwards
Managing Editor Emeritus: Maria S. Picone
Poetry Editor Emeritus: Kell Hagermann
Managing Editor Emeritus: Damon McKinney
Managing Editor Emeritus: Stephen Byrne
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus: Ariana D. Den Bleyker
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