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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. We publish two issues each year, one in the summer and one in the winter. 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
PRODUCTION EDITOR
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 has been with Gigantic Sequins since its inception in 2008, when she was in New York City. The rest is history. |
TEEN SEQUINS CO-EDITOR/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. |
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Ian Carlos Crawford grew up in southern New Jersey. He has had his writing featured in Art Faccia and Quixotica and his photography has been published by The Advocate and Next Magazine. He graduated with his MFA in nonfiction writing from New School. He is currently working on both a fiction manuscript and a nonfiction one. He loves pugs, comic books, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and co-hosts the Buffy podcast, Slayerfest 98. |
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR
Tafisha A. Edwards is the author of THE BLOODLET, winner of Phantom Books’ 2016 Breitling Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The Offing, PHANTOM, Bodega Magazine, Fjords Review, The Little Patuxent Review, and other print and online publications. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s Jiminéz-Porter Writers’ House, a Cave Canem fellow, and a former educator with the American Poetry Museum. She is the recipient of a Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and has received from various other writing workshops and conferences. She is currently writing her first collection of poetry, Confusing the Wind. |
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR
Christine Friedlander is writer, student support specialist, and a fresh body of water from New Jersey. She also navigates poetic waters with the Twin Cities-based poetry collective OUR FLOW IS HARD. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky Press Magazine, First Class Lit, Big Lucks, Gigantic Sequins, The Pinch, Paper Darts, Radioactive Moat, and other places, and her book AVANT GAUZE was a finalist for the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Press Book Prize. Follow her on Twitter @friedlanduh, on Tumblr, or visit her at christinefriedlander.com |
CO-EDITOR & FOUNDER OF TEEN SEQUINS
Sophie Klahr is the author of MEET ME HERE AT DAWN (YesYes Books) and the chapbook ________ VERSUS RECOVERY (Pilot Books). Her work appears in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, and elsewhere. She lives sometimes in California and sometimes in Nebraska. |
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 forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in October 2018. |
TEEN SEQUINS EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Gabi Mohrer is a junior in the creative writing department at Miami Arts Charter. Her work has won awards such as Honorable Mention in the Jack London writing contest and has been published in various poetry books. She expresses her passion for reading at Reading In The Rain (www.booksablog.com). |
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR
Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. He is the author of The Voyager Record (Rose Metal Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Flapperhouse, The Ilanot Review, and Queen Mob’s Tea House. Find him on Twitter @anphimimor and at anthonymichaelmorena.com. |
EDITOR IN CHIEF/FOUNDER
Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and EIC of GIGANTIC SEQUINS. Her poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has two chapbooks, most recently, EFS & VEES (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). She lives in Breaux Bridge, LA and is a PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she starred in a May 2017 production of the play Revision by the Milena Theatre Group. Follow her on twitter @kimannjosouth and visit her website for more. |
TEEN SEQUINS EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Dylan Weir is a poet and MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin where he's taught composition and creative writing. His work can be found in Blue Earth Review, North American Review, Tinderbox, Rhino, and Yemassee. Dylan volunteers as a poetry instructor for the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project and can be found on twitter @dylanweird |
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. |
FICTION EDITOR
Zach Yontz is a photographer, musician, writer, editor and government worker. He lives in Chicago. Find out more at zachyontz.com. |
