About
Staff
Michelle Champagne
Editor in Chief & Flash Editor
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Michelle Champagne recently earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. She also holds degrees from Mercer University and Wake Forest University, where she was the Graduate Fellow for Fiction Collective 2. She is an Associate Editor for Bull City Press and her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Follow on BlueSky.
Eliana Franklin
Guest Poetry Editor
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Eliana Franklin received her MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. She has work forthcoming in The Greensboro Review and is the recipient of the Noel Callow Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also has poems published in Had I Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Floods, Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, and Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts.
*Maddie Gallo will be returning for our Spring 2026 issue.
CJ Triplett
Fiction/Nonfiction Editor
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CJ Triplett earned his Master’s in English Literature from the University of Mississippi. His work has been published in The Dulcimer.