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.

‘26-’27 masthead:

Editor-in-Chief | Megan Poe is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction and this year’s Hemingway Fellow. From the bitter winters of Michigan, she writes speculative and ecofeminist stories where all landscape and environment are alive. She is currently working on a collection of nonfiction vignettes and also serves as co-editor of Fugue’s flash prose.

Managing Editor | Kasey Kirchner is a second-year MFA candidate in fiction. Before moving to Idaho, she lived and worked in Indiana, where she held various corporate marketing roles. She writes what Leyna Krow calls “fiction science” and enjoys talking about stories with her dog, Lily.

Marketing Editor | Sarah Stege is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction. In her writing, she bends the natural world into something slightly surreal, through toad reincarnations, potatoes symbolic of grief, and sentient plant roommates gone rogue. 

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

Nonfiction Editor | Annie Sheneman is a third-year MFA candidate in nonfiction. She writes essays about car washes, community theatre, banks, puppets, or whatever else interests her at any given moment. Her recent creative work can be found in The Spectacle, and she can be found at her local café.

Associate Nonfiction Editor | Nico Rios Romero is a second-year MFA candidate in nonfiction. He graduated from Washington State University in St. Louis with a degree in film media studies and creative writing. 

Poetry Editor | Dylan Bourne is a third-year MFA candidate in poetry from Madison, WI. Currently he’s deep in Charles Wright’s Oblivion Banjo. His recent work appears in Passages North. 

Associate Poetry Editor | Cash Wilder Robinson is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry from Austin, TX. Currently, he too, is deep in Charles Wright’s Oblivion Banjo. His recent work will appear in the Empty Bowl Press anthology Cascadia Works: Tend Gather Harvest Restore.

Fiction Editor | Paige Phillips is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction from just north of San Francisco, CA. In addition to her writing, she also teaches ballet and performs as a guest artist with local companies.

Associate Fiction Editor | Monica Wood is an MFA candidate in fiction from Northern Virginia. From talking crustaceans to minimum wage jobs, her work explores the ordinary lives of those encountering the absurd.

Flash Prose Co-Editor | Jasmine Jones is a third-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.

Visual Art & Hybrid Forms Editor | Jonah Radeke is a third-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 | Juliet Wenzel is a second-year MFA candidate in nonfiction. Her writing spirals around movement, ecology, and embodied knowledge. She calls New York home.

Faculty Advisor | Chris Drangle teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Idaho.  His fiction has been recognized with an NEA Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, among other honors. He lives on the Palouse with a poet partner and an insane dog.

Readers |

Fiction - Analee Dean, Shaylee Bicknese, Ryan Beres, Renee Cuny

Nonfiction - Victoria Ortega, Celeste Bloom, Cheyenne McLellan.

Poetry - Dani Rust, Abbi McCall

Art/Hybrid - Celeste Bloom, Cheyenne McLellan, Renee Cuny