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Ashley Moore
Editor in ChiefOriginally from Oklahoma, Ashley is a writer, editor, and educator based in Berlin and Bayreuth. Find Ashley's work in the bold indie publications Ashley most respects.
ashley@sandjournal.com
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.
ruby@sandjournal.com
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.
sara@sandjournal.com
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.
alia@sandjournal.com
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.
emma@sandjournal.com
Raphael Koranda
Poetry EditorRaphael is a writer whose work moves between English and German, and between the digital and the analogue. When not immersed in text, they are chasing after poetic moments in food and dance while trying to keep their plants alive.
raphael@sandjournal.com
Adrienne Chung
Poetry EditorAdrienne is a writer and educator from San Francisco. She loves the halawet el-jibn from Ed-Lib, strolls through Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, and the €15 oysters and white wine deal at Rogacki. She teaches at the Berlin Writers' Workshop.
adrienne@sandjournal.com
Patrice Liang
Creative Nonfiction EditorPatrice grew up in Taipei and spent a decade in New York before moving to Berlin. She is a writer and software developer exploring outsider perspectives and unexpected storytelling.
patrice@sandjournal.com
Jeannette Pang
Digital EditorJeannette is a Berlin-based writer and editor, working in digital communication. Born in Singapore, she studied literature and delved into design and photography, mostly documenting odd entities like moss or shadows.
Siena Powers
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.
siena@sandjournal.com
Dženana Vucic
Fiction EditorDženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor and critic. She's supposed to be working on a book, but mostly she's reading.
dzenana@sandjournal.com
Ambika Thompson
Fiction EditorAmbika's favourite colour is rainbow and they have a black cat that is a witch. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from Guelph University (Canada) and their fiction has been published in several international publications. They also are a musician, a parent and a wannabe comedian.
ambika@sandjournal.com
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.
deborah@sandjournal.com
Macy Ripley
Funding CoordinatorMacy moved to Berlin from Iowa in 2016. She's a translator and editor with a background in public funding and a love of crime fiction and peanut butter.
Clea Wurster
Distribution & Funding Coordinatorlea grew up in Boise, Idaho. She studied Philosophy and German Literature in Los Angeles and in 2022, she moved to Berlin to pursue a masters in Philosophy. She spends most of her time writing about food from a philosophical perspective and reading food theory.
clea@sandjournal.com
Lizzy Yarwood
Distribution & Funding CoordinatorLizzy is constantly reading sci-fi/fantasy and is currently working on a lunarpunk novel, as well as editing a magazine of illustrated sci-fi short stories. She enjoys making clothes out of scrap material and learning about different threads of magic.
lizzy@sandjournal.com
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.
christina@sandjournal.com
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.