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Gigantic Sequins is happy to be your favorite black & white print literary arts journal. GS was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Philadelphia, and currently lives primarily in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, with outposts throughout the US in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, & more. We're known for the quality fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, art, & comics we print as well as our unique design & aesthetic. Our editors like to publish writers & artists who have their hands in various sorts of figurative creative cookie jars, as well as writers & artists at a variety of different stages in their careers. For ten years, we published two issues each year, one in the summer and one in the winter, and moving forward, GS will come out annually for now. Our all-volunteer staff helps cultivate a space for writing & art that reaches beyond the printed literary arts & into other parts of our neighborhoods. We aim to be the print literary arts journal on your shelf that starts a lasting conversation. You can't dog-ear the best poem in your favorite online literary journal, so support this independent literary arts venture & others like it.
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Current Editors
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POETRY EDITOR // Tafisha A. Edwards is the Poetry Editor of Gigantic Sequins and author of The Bloodlet, winner of Phantom Books’ 2016 Breitling Chapbook Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bodega Magazine, Fjords Review, Washington Square Review, Winter Tangerine and other print and online publications. She has also written for work Tidal, Vice, Cosmopolitan and other publications. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s Jiminéz-Porter Writers’ House, recipient of a Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and a Cave Canem Graduate fellow.
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BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR // Tyler Gillespie is a pale Floridian. He's an award-winning journalist and the author of Florida Man: Poems (2018). Find him at TylerMTG.com
TEEN SEQUINS EDITOR & CO-CREATOR; POETRY EDITOR EMERITUS // Sophie Klahr is the author of MEET ME HERE AT DAWN (YesYesBooks) and __________Versus Recovery (Pilot Books). Her work appears in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. A recent Philip Roth Resident at the Stadler Center for Poetry, she is the 2019/2020 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill. She served as GS poetry editor from 2010-2015.
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION EDITOR // LaTanya McQueen has been published in The Los Angeles Review, Indiana Review, Fourteen Hills, The Florida Review, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Nimrod,
Bennington Review, New Orleans Review, and other journals. She received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, and is the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College. Her essay collection And It Begins Like This is now available from Black Lawrence Press. |
FICTION EDITOR // Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. He is the author of The Voyager Record: A Transmission (Rose Metal Press, 2016) and a fiction editor for Gigantic Sequins. His writing has appeared or will soon in Fence, The Establishment, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Hobart, and The Ilanot Review, where he has also been a guest editor and interviewer. Find him on Twitter @anphimimor and at anthonymichaelmorena.com.
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ASSISTANT CREATIVE NON-FICTION EDITOR // Jenny Robertson is a writer from Minnesota. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. The first chapter of her novel set in 1920s Iron Range Minnesota placed second in the Rick DeMarinis short story contest, judged by Stuart Dybek, and she was a 2019 Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize semifinalist. Her poems and stories have appeared in Dunes Review, Cutthroat, Dislocate, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere.
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EDITOR IN CHIEF/FOUNDER // Kimberly Ann Southwick is an Aries with a Capricorn moon & rising. Her most recent poetry chapbook is EFS & VEES (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015), & her current manuscript-in-circulation, ORCHID ALPHA, was a finalist for the Moon City Press Poetry Prize in 2018 & Elixir Press's 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award--plus a semi-finalist for the 2019 Perugia Press Prize. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, & is a PhD candidate & grad assistant in the English department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She's on twitter at @kimannjosouth. Visit her website here.
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR // Billie R. Tadros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Scranton. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of two books of poems, Was Body (forthcoming from Indolent Books) and The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018), and three chapbooks, Am/Are I (forthcoming from Francis House Publishing), inter: burial places (Porkbelly Press, 2016), and Containers (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). You can find more of her and her work at www.BillieRTadros.com and @BillieRTadros.
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ART & DESIGN EDITOR // meg willing is a poet, collage artist, and designer. After a nomadic upbringing, she eventually returned to the sublime foothills of Maine—where she now resides. Find out more at megwilling.com.
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FICTION EDITOR // Zach Yontz is a photographer, musician, writer, editor and government worker. He lives in Chicago. Find out more at zachyontz.com.
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Editors Emeritus
EDITOR EMERITUS
Shereen Adel currently lives in Oakland. In ten years she's lived in six cities, and has plans to improve on that record. But for now she likes the Far West. She was with Gigantic Sequins from its inception in 2008 when she was in New York City through about 2018. Her stamp on GS is maintained every time Team Production says the word "base line," and in other ways remains a part of what makes GS happen.
Shereen Adel currently lives in Oakland. In ten years she's lived in six cities, and has plans to improve on that record. But for now she likes the Far West. She was with Gigantic Sequins from its inception in 2008 when she was in New York City through about 2018. Her stamp on GS is maintained every time Team Production says the word "base line," and in other ways remains a part of what makes GS happen.
EDITOR EMERITUS
Ian Carlos Crawford grew up in southern New Jersey. His writing has been featured in Art Faccia and Quixotica and his photography has been published by The Advocate and Next Magazine. He graduated with an MFA in nonfiction writing from New School. He is currently working on both a fiction and a nonfiction manuscript. He loves pugs, comic books, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and hosts the Buffy podcast, Slayerfest 98. He is a GS CNF Editor Emeritus.
Ian Carlos Crawford grew up in southern New Jersey. His writing has been featured in Art Faccia and Quixotica and his photography has been published by The Advocate and Next Magazine. He graduated with an MFA in nonfiction writing from New School. He is currently working on both a fiction and a nonfiction manuscript. He loves pugs, comic books, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and hosts the Buffy podcast, Slayerfest 98. He is a GS CNF Editor Emeritus.
EDITOR EMERITUS
Robert Auld is an undergraduate at Salem State University in Massachusetts. His poems and other writings appear in BALDHIP Magazine, Soundings East, and The Nervous Breakdown, among others. Follow him on Twitter @robbyauld. Visit him online here. He is a Teen Sequins Co-Editor/Co-Creator Emeritus.
Robert Auld is an undergraduate at Salem State University in Massachusetts. His poems and other writings appear in BALDHIP Magazine, Soundings East, and The Nervous Breakdown, among others. Follow him on Twitter @robbyauld. Visit him online here. He is a Teen Sequins Co-Editor/Co-Creator Emeritus.
