EDITORIAL STAFF

Fugue is housed at the University of Idaho’s MFA program in creative writing. MFA candidates have the opportunity to serve as editors, and graduate and undergraduate UI students from any academic discipline can serve as readers.

‘25-’26 masthead:

Editor-in-Chief | Raquel Gordon is a third-year MFA candidate in poetry from Seattle. She earned her BA in creative writing and dance from the University of Washington. Her writing blends surrealism, humor, and performance. Outside of writing, she sings, plays guitar, and does aerial arts. 

Managing Editor | Megan Poe is a second-year MFA candidate in fiction from Michigan. Her writing is often a surrealist and speculative expression of whatever philosophy is gripping her at the moment –  from ecofeminism to eternalism. When she isn’t writing, she feels very small.

Marketing Editor | Kasey Kirchner is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction. Before moving to Idaho, she lived and worked in Indiana, where she held various corporate marketing roles. She enjoys writing surrealist fiction and going on quiet hikes with her lazy dog, Lily. 

Web Editor | Juliet Wenzel is a first-year MFA candidate in nonfiction from Long Island, New York. Before coming to Idaho, she worked as a preschool teacher and bartender. She is interested in fractures, both literal and figurative. In her free time, she enjoys trail running and making stained glass art. 

Nonfiction Editor | Annie Sheneman is a second-year MFA candidate in nonfiction. She writes essays about banks, puppets, streets, agricultural equipment, or whatever else interests her at any given moment. She can be found wandering around Moscow, asking lots of questions and recording things with a tape recorder.

Associate Nonfiction Editor | Gracie Gurr is a second-year English MA student from Sparks, Nevada. She holds a BA in English/Writing from Eastern Oregon University. She was a finalist for her opinion essay on the Anthropocene in Public Anthropology’s Community Action Website Project. Her recent work can be found in The Meadow and Route 7 Review.

Poetry Editor | Kyle Singleton is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry. He's a Florida-born poet who has spent the last fifteen years living in Utah and Idaho. 

Associate Poetry Editor | Cash Robinson is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Classics with a focus in Greek and Latin Lyric poetry. 

Fiction Editor | Jasmine Jones is a second-year MFA candidate in fiction. She is a writer, editor, and journalist from southern Missouri. She often writes about family, girlhood, rural communities, and objects – especially chairs.

Associate Fiction Editor | Rya Sheppard is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction. She earned her BA from the University of Idaho where she studied English and creative writing. Her work can be found in Flash Fiction Magazine.

Visual Art & Hybrid Forms Editor | Jonah Radeke is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry. They were raised outside of Chicago, where they worked in museums and wrote on-demand typewriter poems at events in the city. Outside of writing, Jonah also does photography and develops film at home.

Reviews and Interviews Editor | Dylan Bourne is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry from South Central Wisconsin. He attended the University of Oregon, where he studied philosophy and poetry. He’s currently working on a poetry collection and a novel, which are both aesthetically intertwined with the Midwest.

Faculty Advisor | Michael McGriff is the author of nine books, most recently the poetry collections Angel Sharpening its Beak (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025) and Inquest (White Pine Press, 2025). He is a Professor of English and serves as the Creative Writing Program Director at the University of Idaho.

Readers |

Fiction - Emily LaGrone, Paige Phillips, Maya Salvitti, Jennifer Tussing

Nonfiction - Ryan Beres, Finley Brenner, Ardyn Ford, Emily LaGrone, Elliot Sciascia

Poetry - Charlotte Alexander, Annalise Mitchell, Zackory Morgan, Paige Phillips, Dani Rust

Art/Hybrid - Nico Rios Romero, Cash Robinson, Jennifer Tussing, Juliet Wenzel