Editorial Director
Swanee Astrid is a poet-scribe from Sacramento, CA with degrees in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa (BA) and Naropa University (MFA). She currently works for the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics as the logistical master-mind for the department and advisor to the Bombay Gin Literary Journal editorial board. Among other forays in small press, she has also been an art model, a line cook, editor, and festival producer. Her writing currently focuses on Nordic Animism, astro-anthropology, and other forms of magic.
Visual Art Editor
David “DJ” Jacques (They/Them) is a genderqueer channeler of Middle Eastern lineage whose work encompasses visual art, poetry, and fiction. Blending a unique background as a former Apple Mac Genius and current advisor to the CEO of a woman-owned and operated company, DJ is currently an MFA candidate and the Anselm Hollo Fellow at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where they have previously been honored with the Kerouac and Naiman Scholarships.
Poetry Editor
Stacie Moore (they/she) is a writer & poet, strange human, cat parent—preoccupied with matters of love, grief, & collective liberation. They are the 2025 Anne Waldman Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Poetry Editor
Franklin Lassen is a writer, film enthusiast, and newly born sports lover. Its work is often autobiographical and is interested in how we process the past and how the past haunts our collective present/futures. Obsessively, rewatching films is its favorite pastime. It is currently a first-year MFA candidate at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School.
Poetry Editor
Charlie Tea is a singer-songwriter, one-man-band, busker, poet, and aspiring novelist. He was born and raised in the Dayton, Ohio suburbs, but has been living in the Denver area for the past 11 years. He’s entering his third year as an undergrad in Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he hosts the biweekly NarOpen mic night As of Halloween 2025 his first full-length studio album, 22 Teas On Tap will be available on all streaming platforms.
Prose Editor
kirkesque is an ideological omnivore born near Nikola Tesla’s laboratory in Colorado Springs. Between living in Yellowstone Park and former Yugoslavia, they earned degrees in English & Creative Writing at UNCW and an MA in Postcolonial Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon. They believe literature is inimical to repression and a salve for trauma. If you feed them coffee, you might be told southern gothic stories of the rough south or transcultural tales of disconformity in the macabre mestizaje. They are the emotional support human of a YOWLing polydactyl tortoiseshell furball. All their pronouns are unpronounceable and their gender is creative.
Prose Editor
Meredith Ruby is a creator who traces lived experience through analog photography, poetry, and creative nonfiction. She has a particular sympatico with stream-of-consciousness musings and meditative spaces. Her work has been published in Spectra and Withitgirl, and she is the founder of the digital zine Ramble. She aspires to continue working with creative editorial teams.
SWP Folio Editor
Kristen Richards is the 2024 Anne Waldman Fellow at the JKS school. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, as if to return myself to the sea, and The Desert is a Woman Too, published by Indie Earth Publishing in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Her work has been featured in Glow: Self Care Poetry for the Soul, The Elevation Review, and Glossy Lit Magazine. Her work draws on themes of the natural world, femininity and gender, and trauma and healing. Her current obsessions include the desert, her cat Sprout, obscure poetic forms, and metaphors that last too long.
SWP Folio Editor
Huck Shine is a writer and performer of poetry and song. He is the founder of DarkLeaf Publicatio darkleaf.org, a Colorado based publishing company. Huck is, as a writer and a publisher, focused on the shedding of much needed light into the least seen or spoken (marginalized) aspects of humanity—holding close to a spiritual aesthetic of choosing to seek beauty even ~and maybe even especially~ inside the encroaching darkness of this capitalocene apocalypse. Currently, he is an MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School and is a managing editor of Bombay Gin Literary Journal.
