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David Estringel, MFA
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
David Estringel is a Xicanx, Pushcart/BotN-nominated writer with words published (or forthcoming) in The Opiate, BULL, Mythic Picnic, The Daily Drunk, Cephalopress, Dreich, The Milk House, Harpy Hybrid Review, Terror House Magazine, Expat Press, Literary Heist, Cowboy Jamboree, Sledgehammer Lit, Punk Noir Magazine, Beir Bua Journal, The Blue Nib, South Broadway Ghost Society, Drunk Monkeys, Red Fez, Rigorous, Fugitives & Futurists, Fevers of the Mind, Rawhead Journal, The Pixelated Shroud, Apocalypse Confidential, Ethel, Citywide Lunch, Streetcake Magazine, and more. David is a Professor of English in Central Texas, teaching Composition and Literature, as well as EIC at The Argyle Literary Magazine and Blood+Honey.
David has written and/or published seven poetry/hybrid collections which include, Indelible Fingerprints (Alien Buddha Press, 2019), Blood Honey (Anxiety Press, 2022), Cold Comfort House (Anxiety Press, 2022), little punctures (Really Serious Literature, 2023), Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink (Anxiety Press, 2023), Brujeria (Alien Buddha Press, 2025), and Down the Bermuda Highway (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). David has also written six poetry chapbooks, Punctures (Really Serious Literature, 2019), PeripherieS (The B’K, 2020), Eating Pears on the Rooftop (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Golden Calves (Back Room Poetry, 2023), Sour Grapes (Two Key Customs, 2023), and Blue (Back Room Poetry, 2023) . David's first co-authored novel Escaping Emily was released by Thirty West Publishing House in June 2024.
David has also won multiple screenwriting and scriptwriting awards for his projects "Roadkill" and "Brujo."
Connect with David on X @The_Booky_Man, Instagram @david_estringel, Bluesky @davidestringel.bsky.social, and his website www.davidaestringel.com.
A.A. de Levine
Fiction Editor
A.A. de Levine's short stories and essays have appeared in Taco Bell Quarterly, New Gothic Review, Good Night Sweet Prince, Psycho Holosuite, Anti-Heroin Chic, NoSleep, and other places. She was a fiction editor at Coffin Bell Journal from 2020 until its final issue in 2025.
She’s interested in voice, rhythm, surprise, and how you make sense of all this.
Matthew Attanasio
Fiction Editor
Matt Attanasio is an experienced writer and editor hailing from Long Island, New York. While he mostly enjoys genre fiction, he's always down for any inventive and thought-provoking stories. By day, he works as a Senior Editor for a local publishing house. By night, he's writing his first novel. He also regularly dabbles in (comic) books, film, gaming, cosplay, metal (and all its various subgenres), and, occasionally, a nice single-malt scotch.
Yucheng Tao
Poetry Editor
Yucheng Tao is a Chinese poet whose work has appeared in White Wall Review (Canada), Wild Court (King’s College London), The Lake（UK）Strange Horizons, NonBinary Review, Recours au Poème, and he is forthcoming in I-70 Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poésie Première, and Arpa Poésie (2026). He received an honorary award from the Dark Poet Club, and his chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Argyle Soxx Estringel
Official Mascot & Namesake (in memorium)
Best dog ever.