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.

Current Editors 
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 first full-length collection, ORCHID ALPHA will be published with Trembling Pillow Press. She lives in Saks, Alabama and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Jacksonville State University. Find her on twitter at @kimannjosouth, and visit her website for more.
​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.
​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. ​
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. 
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR // Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Wax Nine, SWWIM, The Inflectionist Review, The Shore, Luna Luna, Rogue Agent, The West Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. Twitter // @audreygidman
​FICTION EDITOR // Zach Yontz is a photographer, musician, writer, editor and government worker. He lives in Chicago.
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR // Julia Coursey has stories included in the Best Shorter Fictions anthology and The Anthology of Babel. Their work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Sou'wester, Gigantic Sequins,  Booth,  Psychopomp, Joyland, and The Collagist, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and is a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Debrecen. Read Julia's work at juliacoursey.com and find them on twitter @CourseyJulia.
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.
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.
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.

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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
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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.
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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.
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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.

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