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wildscape. editors
Ophelia Monet // EIC + Founder
wildscape. literary journal was started in 2024 by Ophelia Monet (she/her),
a 2025 and 2026 Best of the Net nominated poet who started writing after learning that
her late mother was a published poet under a pen name. The first name of her
mother’s pen name was “Ophelia”, hence the choice of Ophelia’s pen name
(though Monet is not a pseudonym). Ophelia is a special education teacher,
storm chaser & certified weather spotter, and mother. She lives in the suburbs of
Cincinnati with her husband and their three-year-old son. She has poetry published
or forthcoming in HOBART, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, Moss Puppy, Free Verse Revolution,
Ink & Marrow Lit, Loud Coffee Press, tiny wren lit, Heimat Review, The Orchards
Poetry Journal, The Inflectionist Review, and more. You can connect with her on
Instagram at @opheliamonetwrites, or via email at mysoullaidbare@gmail.com. You can
check out some of her publications here.
Oliver Andrews // Fiction + CNF Editor
Oliver Andrews (he/him) has his MFA in creative writing from Miami University (Oxford, OH) and is a freelance writer, as well as a bookseller. Similar to Ophelia, his first name is a pseudonym. He lives in the suburbs of Cincinnati with his wife and their three-year-old son. He loves reading sci-fi and fantasy novels in his free time, and his favorite hobby is gaming. Old School RuneScape, anyone?
wildscape. readers
Angela Heiser
poetry/fiction/cnf
| Angela Heiser (she/her) lives near Raleigh and spends her days herding children and dreaming of her next trip, be it to the beach or Scotland. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Red Mud Review and County Lines. Her poem “Cornhusker” was awarded the Poetry Genre Winner for the 2024-2025 issue of The Red Mud Review. She is an alum of Writers in Paradise and reads for Abode Press and Libre Lit. |
Instagram: @angelacheiser
Bethany Hutchison
poetry
| Bethany Hutchison (she/her) has been writing and obsessing over poetry since 2008. Her work can be found under the name B. A. Hutchison. When she’s not reading poetry, she works in a hospital pharmacy, enjoys playing and studying chess, and reading horror novels. She lives in Dayton, OH, with her potter husband, a Scottish terrier, and two cats. She has poetry published or forthcoming in Jack Wild Publishing’s Spring 2024 Avalon Anthology, Local Gems’ Ohio Bards Anthology, First Line Poets Anthology, Squid Lit, Youngstown Art Scene Zine, wildscape. literary journal’s Issue I, and elsewhere. |
Instagram: @fromtheastralplane
Hannah Voteur
fiction
| Hannah (she/her) is a writer, poet and editor, currently working in publishing in NYC as an operations associate. She has loved fiction and stories for as long as she can remember, particularly gothic and evocative literary pieces. She got her Master’s in Linguistics from Boston University in 2022, and her Master’s in English Language and Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2023. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book, she can most likely be found baking lemon bars, daydreaming about moving into a cat friendly apartment, or seeking out new hole-in-the-wall bookstores in her neighborhood. |
Substack: @thinksandthings
Kate Burks
poetry
| Kate Burks (she/her) is a poet and marriage and family therapist based in Dubuque, Iowa, where she lives with her partner and their two dogs and four chickens. A few of her favorite things are yoga, animals, muffins, and taper candles. When not reading or writing, you can catch Kate sampling different cuisines, walking her dog, or watching dystopian TV shows. |
Instagram: @kathrynkadleck
Morgan Adams
fiction & creative nonfiction
| Morgan (they/them) has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Central Arkansas, where they spent three years working on a fantasy novel that is now collecting dust in a file somewhere while they work as a medical receptionist in Buffalo, New York. When they’re not writing or reading, they enjoy cuddling their two cats, playing gotcha games, and watching Studio Ghibli movies. |
Instagram: @morgue_writes
Sarah Bradley
fiction
| Sarah Bradley (she/her) is a Best of the Net nominee and an alumna of the American Short Fiction Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Phoebe, HAD, 34 Orchard, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among others. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and entirely too many plants. If she’s not working on a novel or a short story, she’s probably reading; her favorite living writers are Claire Keegan, Lydia Davis, Sandra Cisneros, and Rachel Cusk. Find her at http://www.sarahvbradley.com or @sarahbooradley. |
Instagram: @sarahbooradley
http://www.sarahvbradley.com
Susan M. Pendley
poetry
| Susan M. Pendley (she/her) is a mother of two and outdoor enthusiast living in the Houston area (wishing she was in the mountains). She takes inspiration from nature and loves to hike, bike and kayak. She writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. She is currently working on her memoir and poetry collections while neglecting her novel. She has written a YA novel and likes to read character driven fiction, creative nonfiction and literary fiction. She enjoys the compression and complexity of poetry. |
Instagram: @susan_m_pendley
Thomas Jackson
poetry
| Thomas Jackson (he/him) is a disabled queer poet from Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a published TEDx Speaker, landscape designer, self-published author, amputee, and suicide prevention leader. His work has appeared in several journals, including Emerge Literary Journal, Stonecrop Magazine, and HNDL Magazine, among others. |
Instagram: @jtommyj
Twitter: @tommybbyboy
Thomas Rions-Maehren
poetry
| Thomas Rions-Maehren (he/him) is a bilingual poet, novelist, and educator. His research has been published in ACS Nano, and examples of his Spanish-language prose can be found in his published short stories and in his novel En las Manos de Satanás (Ápeiron Ediciones, 2022). More of his poetry in both languages can be found in a number of journals, such as Pensive, The Elevation, Tabula Rasa, Welter, Irradiación, Óclesis, and Iguales Revista, and at his website (thomasrionsmaehren.com). He is on Instagram and Bluesky @MaehrenTom. |
Instagram and Bluesky: @MaehrenTom
Valentina Fulginiti
poetry
| Valentina Fulginiti (she/her) is a scholar, writer and educator hailing from Ithaca, NY. An alumna of the universities of Toronto and Bologna, she has been teaching in various capacities since 2002. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer of Italian at Cornell University in the department of Romance Studies. She is a bilingual writer, active in Italian (fiction) and English (poetry). Her debut novel, winner of the Bianciardi Prize for best unpublished manuscript, is forthcoming in Italy. Her English-language poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sacramento Literary Review, Panoplyzine and Merion West. When not shackled at a desk, surrounded by papers to grade and books to read, she can be found hiking in the Finger Lakes region, in her kitchen cooking food for friends and family, or in the living room trying to do yoga. |
Instagram: @effe.valentina
Zia Marshall
poetry
| With a doctorate in English Literature, Zia Marshall (she/her) has always been passionate about writing. Her poetry collections, From Breaking to Blooming (2023) and Petals in the Breeze (2024) explore themes of vulnerability, healing, and resilience. Awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the Asian Literary Society’s Wordsmith Award (2020), 8th place in the Rabindranath Tagore Award International (2024), and Poet of the Year at the Kolkata Literary Carnival by Ukiyoto (2025), her short stories and poems have found homes in several literary journals and anthologies including Contemporary Literary Review of India, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Auroras and Blossoms, Scarlet Leaf Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Spillwords, and Muse India. |
Instagram: @zenrainbows_
https://linktr.ee/ziamarshallwork
Zoë Luh
creative nonfiction
| Zoë (they/she) is a poet, artist, and disability doula living on unceded Tiwa lands. They believe in poetry as a necessary tool for collective liberation and reclamation of bodily autonomy. Zoë graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Comparative American Studies, and a minor in Studio Art. She published her first book of poetry, [and time erodes like thunder], with Assure Press in 2020, and is featured in Death Rattle/Oroboro, Blue Mesa Review, Saranac Review, In Between Spaces, a disability-centered anthology published with Stillhouse Press, and more. They were selected by Carolina Ebeid as a runner up for the 2024 American Literary Review Awards. You can find her work here. |
Instagram: @zoeluh https://www.zoeluh.com
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