About Us
Publisher and Executive Editor
Marc Vincenz
Marc Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician and artist. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His more recent poetry collections, include, A Brief Conversation with Consciousness, The Little Book of Earthly Delights, There Might Be a Moon or a Dog, 39 Wonders and Other Management Issues, The Pearl Diver of Irunmani, A Splash of Cave Paint, The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars, and Spells for the Wicked (forthcoming 2025). Marc’s work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, Plume, Fourteen Hills, Willow Springs, Solstice, World Literature Today, The Notre Dame Review, The Golden Handcuffs Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books and many other journals and periodicals. He lives on a farm in Western Massachusetts where there are more spiny-nosed voles, tufted grey-buckle hares and Amoeba scintilla than humans.
Managing Editor
F. J. Bergmann
F.J. Bergmann, also Copy Editor at MadHat Press, once lived in Paris, France. She presently resides in Wisconsin, officiates as poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and is also a copy editor at Right Hand Pointing. Further manifestations occur at fibitz.com.
Associate Editor
Katy Evans-Bush
Katy Evans-Bush is a poet, blogger, poetry tutor and editor living in Kent, UK. She is the author of three full poetry collections and the prize-winning chapbook Broken Cities (Smith|Doorstop, 2017). Forgive the Language: Essays on Poetry and Poets was published by Penned in the Margins in 2015, and her latest collection is Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle (CB Editions). She was editor of Salt Publishing's online journal Horizon Review, and her reviews and criticism have appeared in a wide range of publications. Her former blog, Baroque In Hackney, was shortlisted for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for political writing. She now writes a Substack called A Room of Someone Else's. katyevansbush.com
Associate Acquisitions Editor
Alex Cigale
Alex Cigale’s poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, North American, Tampa, and The Literary Reviews, and online in Asymptote, Drunken Boat, and McSweeney's. His translations from the Russian are in Cimarron Review, Inventory, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation,New England Review, PEN America, Two Lines, and World Literature Today. He is on the editorial boards of CŒUR journal, MadHat Annual, St. Petersburg Review, and Verse Junkies. From 2011 until 2013, he was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Associate Editor for Criticism and Non-Fiction
Robert Archambeau
Robert Archambeau’s books include the poetry collections Home and Variations and The Kafka Sutra and the studies Laureates and Heretics and The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World, among others. He teaches at Lake Forest College.
Editor - Toad Suck Éditions
Mark Spitzer
Mark Spitzer passed away on January 19, 2023. He was the author of 30 books; some nonfiction fish studies, some collections of poetry, as well as novels, translations and a creative writing pedagogy book. Spitzer edited and published the legendary Toad Suck Review literary journal from 2010 to 2016 and was the Editor of Toad Suck Éditions, an imprint of MadHat Press. He was a professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas who lived part time in the Mid-Hudson Valley where he and his dog hunted golden oyster mushrooms. For more information go to www.sptzr.net.
Associate Editor - FarFlung Editions
Cassandra Atherton
Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning writer and scholar of prose poetry. Her books of prose poetry include Exhumed (2015), Trace (2015), Pikadon (2018), Pre-Raphaelite (2018), Fugitive Letters (2020) and Leftovers (2020). Cassandra co-wrote
Associate Poetry Editor
Joe Green
Joe Green was born in 1948 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and yet lives. He is the author of three books of poetry: The Dark Bark: Poetry and Song of Rin Tin Tin, The Diamond at the End of Time, and (with Tim Smith) The Limerick Homer and has also written one 2.7 pound novel: The Chains of the Sea. He has poems published in Fulcrum, The Battersea Review and some other places and many of his poems have been translated into Russian.
Copy Editor
F. J. Bergmann
F.J. Bergmann, also Managing Editor at MadHat Press, once lived in Paris, France. She presently resides in Wisconsin, officiates as poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, poetry editor of Weird House Press, and is also a copy editor at Right Hand Pointing. Further manifestations occur at fibitz.com.
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