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Managing/Executive Editor(s)
Nonfiction Editor
Executive Editor
S.L. Wisenberg was nonfiction editor of ACM from 1997 to 2010. She is the author of a fiction collection, The Sweetheart Is In; and an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions. She is ACM nonfiction editor and also edits ACM prose. She’s received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a Pushcart Prize. She is a freelance editor and writing coach. Her essay collection The Wandering Womb won the Juniper Prize for nonfiction from the University of Massachusetts Press and was a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books‘ best nonfiction book. Her nonfiction chronicle The Adventures of Cancer Bitch was reprinted in a fifteenth anniversary edition in October 2024.
Managing Editor
Franchesca Viaud holds a BA in English Literature from Boston University and an MFA from UMass Amherst. She is a content editor for The Adroit Journal, the website and social media manager for Epiphany Magazine, and an assistant editor for The Massachusetts Review. Originally from Boston, she manages a bookstore in Dorchester’s Little Saigon.
Associate Managing Editor
Emily Page is a writer who works in digital media. She lives in Chicago with her dog Margarita, and is currently writing her first novel.
Assistant Managing Editor
Lillian Beach Borovac is a master’s of Writing and Publishing student at DePaul University. She graduated with a BA in English from The College of Wooster in 2023. She is also associate editor with 14East at DePaul. Lillian has worked with multiple literary magazines (The Dodge, The Upper New Review) and has had work published with The Upper New Review. Her writing often blends themes of loss, memory, and the environment with psychological and body horror.
Editorial Lead
Rachael Vaughan Clemmons is an essayist and screenwriter based in Washington, D.C. (for now). A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, their nonfiction has appeared in Mental Hellth, Bloody Hell Zine, and miniMAG, among others. Their pilot, “DEADWEIGHT,” was a semi-finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, and they were a 2024 resident at St. Nells, a humor writing residency. Beyond writing, Rachael is a vintage glassware enthusiast, collecting and selling wares as father figure vintage.
Fiction Staff
Fiction editor Raghav Rao was born in Mumbai, India. He grew up in London, Los Angeles, and Southern India. He graduated from the University of Chicago and teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. His debut novel, Missy, is out with Hera Books (UK & Commonwealth) and Penguin Random House – Vintage Books (India). He enjoys birdwatching, playing squash, and biking the lakefront trail. You can follow his newsletter on information saturation at raghavrao.substack.com.
Fiction Readers
Grace Tsichlis moved from Texas to Chicago. She’s currently a creative writing and publishing MFA student at DePaul University. She has stories published in They Call Us and Sad Goose Cooperative. She’s the editor of The Orange Couch, the DePaul University Writing Center’s online literary journal.
Alexandra Apuzzo is a fiction writer living in Jersey City. She holds an MFA from Rutgers-Newark and teaches writing at colleges across New Jersey. In between teaching and playing with her dog, she is writing her first novel. Or rather, she is thinking about writing her first novel. Her prose has appeared in Juxtaprose Literary Magazine, Cagibi Lit, Sunlight Press, and Chestnut Review.
Interviews Editor
We will be posting the interviews editor job soon.
Translations Editor
Neil Blackadder translates drama and prose from German and French. His translations of plays by Lukas Bärfuss, Ewald Palmetshofer, Rebekka Kricheldorf, and Mishka Lavigne have been produced in London, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere, and many others have been published, and presented in staged readings. His translations of prose have appeared in journals including Two Lines, Tupelo Quarterly, and Chelsea. Neil was awarded a 2022 NEA Translation Grant, and has previously received fellowships from PEN and the Howard Foundation, and held residencies at the Banff Centre and Art Omi. Neil retired in 2019 from a 25-year career teaching theatre at Knox College and Duke University. He is active in ALTA and the Third Coast Translators Collective, and co-founded TinT, the Theatre in Translation network. In Spring 2023, Neil was the Translator in Residence at Princeton University.
Poetry Editors
Our poetry editor is Alex Wells Shapiro (he/him), a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Frontier Poetry and is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His debut poetry collection Insect Architecture was published in 2022 by Unbound Edition Press. He also was a fiction reader for ACM.
Assistant poetry editor Michael Dean is a Chicago-based poet. They have work published or forthcoming in Hooligan Magazine and Poetry East.
Nonfiction Staff
S.L. Wisenberg is nonfiction editor.
Dan Zamarelli is the assistant nonfiction editor and also manages ACM’s social media accounts. He previously served as ACM‘s social media intern and editor of the now defunct The Loop section. He is a freelance copywriter and essayist based in Chicago.
Sangmi Yoo is a nonfiction reader. She writes creative nonfiction and has been published in Creator Mag, Red Sheep Magazine, and Arboreal Literary Magazine.
Reviews Editors
Will Russo is the editor for poetry reviews. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Dreamsoak and Glass Manifesto, winner of the 2023 Robert Campbell Chapbook Award from Anhinga Press. Born and raised in New York City, he is now based in Chicago, where he received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Laura Hawbaker is the editor for prose reviews. She is a Chicago-based editor and writer with an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Linguistics. Her criticism has appeared in PopMatters and Bright Wall/Dark Room, among others, and she was the winner of the Tusculum Review Fiction Prize. She is the founding editor of Masks Literary Magazine.
Forthcoming Editor
Deborah Adelman is Forthcoming editor. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Cream City Review, Jewish Currents, Lilith, Memoir Magazine, Verse-Virtual, and Permafrost. She has published two books, The “Children of Perestroika”: Moscow Teenagers Talk About Their Lives and the Future, and The “Children of Perestroika” Come of Age: Young People of Moscow Talk About Life in the New Russia. She lives in Oak Park, IL, and taught English and Film Studies at the College of DuPage.
Digital Editor
Dan Zamarelli is the digital editor.
Art Editor
Hanna (Dodd) Ferguson is a writer and artist from the Quad Cities, IL, who lives and works in Chicago. She is a graduate of Luther College, where she studied English, linguistics, and art history. Her writing can be found in Cutleaf Journal.
Editorial & Design Assistant
Sarah Rubinstein is a writer and journalist living in New Mexico. You can find her fiction and poetry in Libre, Pornstar Martini Magazine, LYME ZEST, Lobster Salad and Champagne, and The Sanctuary Magazine.
Copyediting Coordinator
Jade Han is currently studying English at the University of San Francisco. They are the editor in chief of Ignatian Literary Magazine, the undergraduate publication.
Copy Editors
Christina Gaudino is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she studied political science. She currently works at Rutgers. She loves to write, sing, and garden. She lives in Jersey City with her cat, Tabitha.
Larkin is a writer and comedian based in Chicago. They are currently writing their first novel while working as a substitute teacher.
Meghan Lee is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She studied journalism and political science at the University of Missouri, and previously wrote for Bay Area outlets Content Magazine and BenitoLink.
Sloane Cutflower Allen is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and editor living in Chicago. She is a cofounder and editor-in-chief of Duress Press and a nonfiction reader for Anomaly. Her poetry has appeared in Skeleton Flowers, Carmen et Error, Angel Rust, and Otoliths.
Grants & Analytics Manager
Willem Marx is an assistant editor at Electric Literature, Nonfiction Editor at Asymptote, and an NYC Midnight judge. His writing can be found in Necessary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.
Literary Publication Assistant
Brighton Harding is a writer, editor, and multimedia storyteller interested in narrative experimentation and community-centered publishing. At ACM, she supports the editorial workflow, manuscript evaluation, and digital production.
Intern/s
Ellye Sevier, Mars Thomasson
Past Interns
Andy Brinkis, Tony Miller, Evan Richards, Angel Valdes, Miranda Malinowski, Maxwell Rowe-Sutton, Ryan Ziencina, Emily Johnson, Anne Duncan, Matthew Kilbane, Julia Shanker, Ben Richman, Azize Altay Harvey, Lillian Richardson, Olivia Griffin, Avani Kalra, Isabelle Wade, Olivia Shay, Nancy Gorman, Leah Schroeder, Sarah Weiner, Emma Ashley, Larissa Goadler, Katie Dallas, Elinor Hendricks, Amina Alieva, Gemma Marx, Anushka Dabhade, Sumon Bomya, Qudus Olowo
Staff Emeriti
Matt Wood served as digital editor and nonfiction editor from Aug. 2017 through May 2018 and created the ACM online version you see before you.
Lee Webster, Barry Silesky, Sharon Solwitz, Tom Moss, Sara Skolnik (b. 1949, d. 2017), Simone Muench, Jacob Knabb, Caroline Eick, Matt Rowan, Betty Scott, Dan Gonzalez, Patrick Parks, Samuel Schwindt, Tara Betts, John Moss, Kurt Heintz, Nicole Von Drasek (managing editor extraordinaire), Eliza Nichols, Vincent Francone, Natalie Haney Tilghman, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Katana Smith, Christine Byrne, Jennifer C. Nash, Erica Jasmin Dixon, Nic Rueth, Arne Weingart, Tarnynon Onumonu, Sasha Weiss, Tamara Matthews, Erik Noonan, Ian Eric Wojcikiewicz, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Charlie Kolodziej, Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal.
Board of Directors
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Gina DiPonio, Joanna Brown, Rachel Wiggins
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