Christopher Forrest serves as poetry editor and is managing editor of the Immersion Poetry Series at Press 53. He graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in economics and worked in the financial sector for nearly a decade before returning to his hometown of Winston-Salem and shifting his career path toward his passion: the arts. He received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in 2017 and his poetry has appeared in a wide range of publications. When not at Press 53, you’ll find him with his lovely, supportive wife and two young boys, playing blocks and trains, or hovering over a puzzle, a pen never very far away.

Julie Zuckerman’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of publications, including The SFWP Quarterly, The Macguffin, Salt Hill, Sixfold, The Coil, Ellipsis, Crab Orchard Review and others. A native of Connecticut, she now lives in Modiin, Israel, with her husband and four children. Her novel in stories, The Book of Jeremiah, was the runner-up for the 2018 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction and is her debut story collection.

LINDSEY ROYCE

Guest Editor for Poetry

Lindsey Royce is the author of Bare Hands, a collection of poetry published in 2016, and Play Me a Revolution, published by Press 53 in 2019. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing/Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston and an M.A. in English and American Literature Studies/ Poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared in many American periodicals and anthologies, including the Aeolian Harp anthology, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Poet Lore, and Washington Square Review.

Read “Strawberry Moon Solstice” (first published by Blue Fifth Review, and appearing in Play Me a Revolution [Press 53])

RHONDA BROWNING WHITE

Guest Editor for Short Fiction

Rhonda Browning White resides near Daytona Beach, Florida. Her work appears in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her blog “Read. Write. Live!” is found at www.RhondaBrowningWhite.com. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and was awarded a fellowship from Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise. Her debut short story collection, The Lightness of Water & Other Stories, won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction.

Read “The Lightness of Water and Other Stories” from The Lightness of Water & Other Stories