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.
‘23-’24 masthead:
Editor-in-Chief | Crystal Cox is a third-year MFA candidate in poetry. Her work has appeared in The Shore, Nimrod, Kissing Dynamite, and elsewhere. Her poem "Self-Portrait with Dolly Parton" won the 2022 Academy of American Poets University Prize judged by Andrew Grace. Crystal has worked in literary publishing for over six years, including as an intern for Persea Books and The Missouri Review.
Managing Editor | Maggie Nipps is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry. Her work appears in Peach Mag, mercury firs, Figure 1, Pinwheel, Sporklet, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder/co-editor of Afternoon Visitor, a new journal of poetry and hybrid text.
Marketing Editor | Christian Perry is a third-year MFA candidate in non-fiction. As an avid animation-enjoyer, Christian is interested in the way writing works as a reality-bending medium even when it is truthful. Their time is often spent revising the many essays that make up their thesis project: a collection seeking to engage the daily routines, objects, and spaces they inhabit to unearth an understanding of self and closeness to others. When they aren't writing or reading, they're watching cartoons.
Web Editor | Miriam Akervall is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry. They were born in Sweden and spent part of their childhood there before moving to the Midwest. They are interested in how memory, language, and the body intersect.
Nonfiction Editor | Cameron Martin is a third-year MFA candidate in poetry, but they also write a lot of prose. They're excited to edit some weird queer essays for Fugue this year. They've published work in Fence, Afternoon Visitor, Sonora Review, & Change, and elsewhere, and they’ve been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, for whatever that's worth. Say hi to them on Twitter, while supplies last, @CMcLeodMartin, and/or on Instagram @cmcleodmart
Associate Nonfiction Editor | Alicia is a second-year MFA candidate in non-fiction. She worked in harm reduction for many years and is compelled by its (sometimes head-butting) conversations about accountability and personal freedom. Talk to her about punk music, drug policy, or the end of the world
Poetry Editor | Daniel Lurie is a third-year MFA candidate in Poetry. He’s a Jewish, rural writer from Eastern Montana, and received his bachelor’s degree from Montana State University Billings. Daniel is passionate about the environment, human rights, rural life, and conceptualizing grief. He is the Poetry Editor for Fugue. His work has recently appeared in the Third Street Gallery, FeverDream, and The Mandarin Magazine, among others.
Poetry Editor | Reid Davis is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry. While she mainly writes poetry, Reid is also a nonfiction writer and focuses her work mainly on themes of the body, connections, femininity, and innate human darkness. She lives in Moscow with her husband, Shane, and their one-year-old tabby, BMO.
Associate Poetry Editor | Karissa Carmona is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry. She is the winner of the 2022 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry and her poems are featured in journals including Cutbank, High Desert Journal, NY Quarterly. An avid consumer of trash and spectacle, Karissa unwinds from her writing life with early 2000s reality TV and reading about the impending Yellowstone Crystal Supervolcano eruption (any day now).
Fiction Editor | Michael Harper is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction. He's interested in messy fiction that experiments with form and language, resists capitalistic impulses toward efficiency in writing when they lead to stereotypical narratives and characters, and explores ideas with curiosity. Being funny is also good.
Associate Fiction Editor | Alex Connors is a second-year MFA fiction candidate and is originally from the north shore of Massachusetts. They attended UMass Amherst, where they studied poetry and social thought. They are working on a collection of short stories that explores the complexities of friendship, family, and queerness within working-class communities. Before coming to the University of Idaho, Alex spent many years as a farmer in western Massachusetts.
Visual Art & Hybrid Forms Editor | Tymber Wolf is a second-year MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction. Tymber was incubated and hatched by an art teacher (who is also a Pisces), thus being gifted the passion of visual arts, aesthetic, and innovative techniques. Tymber was the head of visual art for the Mangrove Review and is happy to be working with Fugue and surrounding artists to express art and hybrid forms in exactly the way we all think it means.
Reviews and Interviews Editor | Spencer Robert Young is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry. Their poetry, prose, and literary essays appear in Terrain.org, Thirteen Bridges Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. Ilya Kaminsky once called them smart, and they like to pretend this didn't mean a lot to them.
Editorial Assistant | Kacy Cheslek is a junior English major with an interest in publishing. She reads literary fiction, among other things, and writes silly little poems. When she’s not working at the movie theater, she likes to meander outdoors, bake desserts, and play Skyrim.
Faculty Advisor | Alexandra Teague is the author of three books of poetry: Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019), The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea, 2015), and Mortal Geography (Persea, 2010), winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and 2010 California Book Award. She is also the author of the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse, 2017) and co-editor of the anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon, 2017). The recipient of a 2019 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, the 2014 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a 2006-2008 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, Alexandra is a Professor in the BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing programs, Co-Director of the MFA program, and Co-Director of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Her work has been praised in such publications as Booklist, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times as “a strong feminist penman to watch,” “formally impressive,” and “passionate, quirky, and righteously outraged.” Her memoir in essays, Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, is coming out from Oregon State University Press in October 2023.
Readers |
Fiction - Rachel Morgan, Rya Sheppard, Alexa Askey, Jason Cahoon, Trixie Zwolfer, Madison Aittma, Emma Neal, Gianna Starble, Dylan Reynolds, Emme Eubanks, Kaia Sherman, Megan Kingsley, Sherrie Eckles
Nonfiction - Ashley Weitzel, Katie Ludwig, Wilda Francois, Ella Jacoby
Poetry - Emme Eubanks, Raquel Gordon, Katie Ludwig, Alyssa Loftis, Kacy Youmans, Saugata Debnath
Reviews - Trixie Zwolfer, Gianna Starble
Art/Hybrid - Madison Aittma