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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POETRY EDITOR EMERITUS; TEEN SEQUINS CO-CREATOR // Sophie Klahr served as the GS Poetry Editor from 2010-2015, and was the co-creator and curator of Teen Sequins from its inception in 2015 through 2021. She is the author of Two Open Doors in a Field (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), and Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYesBooks). With Corey Zeller, she co-authored There is Only One Ghost in the World (Fiction Collective 2, 2023). Her work appears in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. She works as a freelance literary editor and mentor, and teaches at UNC-Chapel Hill. Follow her on Twitter at @sophieklahr or Instagram at @sophieandthechoices

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.

TEEN SEQUINS CO-EDITOR + CO-CREATOR
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.