The Team

Ashley Moore
Editor in ChiefOriginally from Oklahoma, Ashley is a writer, editor, and educator based in Berlin and Bayreuth. Find her work in the bold indie publications she most respects.

Ruby Mason
Managing EditorRuby grew up in rural England and moved to Berlin in 2015. She spends her days translating and writing subtitles, and her evenings and weekends on various short-lived hobbies.

Sara Anwar
Editorial CoordinatorSara Anwar is a writer, musician and technical product manager living in Berlin. She’s currently seemingly not paying enough attention to her cat but is also learning to assert her own needs better.

Melissa Richer
Creative Nonfiction EditorMelissa is a writer, editor, and designer who moved to Berlin from California in 2016. She is definitely reading too many books at once. Her work can be found online and in print.

Emma C Lawson
Poetry EditorEmma grew up in the Northern Isles and studied literature in Edinburgh. When not editing or tutoring, she can be found in Berlin's libraries writing about animals.

Crista Siglin
Poetry EditorCrista studied painting and creative writing at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her poetry chapbook Fleeting, Sacred is out from Spartan Press.

Siena Powers
Junior Fiction EditorBorn in New England, Siena works in various areas researching, writing, and doing stuff with audio. She loves painting, theatre, Russian novels, and making large amounts of linguini while listening to Mariah Carey.

Alia Zapparova
Art EditorAlia was born in Moscow, spent many years in London and currently lives among piles of books in Berlin. She is an artist working between image and text and searching for poetics in the everyday.

Will Stokes
Distribution & Funding CoordinatorWill is a writer based in Berlin. An avid patron of the Deutsche Bahn, he is also interested in ecopoetics, collecting old furniture, and cycling on the Tempelhofer Feld.

Natalia Dumont
Distribution & Funding CoordinatorNatalia is originally from Buenos Aires and has lived in Neukölln since 2014. She loves to read and she loves to travel but, unfortunately, has not been able to make either her full-time job.

Grace Henes
Events CoordinatorGrace is a writer and editor from Louisville, Kentucky. She loves reading German translations of her favourite YA novels and searching for American-style deli sandwiches in Berlin.

Ana Nenadović
Events CoordinatorBorn in Croatia, Ana has lived in various places and settled in Berlin (for now). Her days are dedicated to researching and coordinating, her nights to literature (reading and writing) and her friends.

Déborah-Loïs Séry
DesignerBorn and raised in Lyon, France, Déborah-Loïs came to Berlin in 2019. She specialises in print and typography, working on several mediums to stay generous & surprising as much as she can.

Natasha Klimenko
Online EditorNatasha is an editor, researcher, and writer based in Berlin. She enjoys reading and sorting things into neat piles.

Christina Wegener
Verein CoordinatorChristina is from Berlin. She organizes literary events and works for a nonprofit, after having studied literature in Berlin, Havana, and Barcelona.