Executive Director
David Bowen (he/him) co-founded New American Press and MAYDAY. His fiction, interviews, and reviews have appeared in magazines and journals such as Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Flyway, and The Literary Review. He lives with his family in southeastern Wisconsin.
Editor In Chief
Chase Erwin (he/him) serves as editor-in-chief of MAYDAY by day, and by night he tends a swanky bar in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lives with his two excellent cats, Stevie and Penelope. You can follow their adventures on Chase’s insta.
Managing Editor
Heather Gluck is a poet and editor from New York. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and her poetry has appeared in Anthropocene, Palette Poetry, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. She was named runner up in the 2023 Ninth Letter Chapbook Contest, the 2023 Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Contest, the 2023 Ledbury Poetry Competition, the 2023 New Orleans Review Poetry Contest, and the 2022 Crosswinds Poetry Contest. She is an associate editor at Majuscule.
Assistant Managing Editors
Tiffany Butler (she/her) is an Emmy award winning journalist and writer from Jacksonville, Florida. She studied English with a focus on creative non-fiction and a minor in film at the University of North Florida. She spent years producing for Action News Jax. Now she’s focusing on copywriting, reading as many books as possible, and putting together her own collection of poems. In her free time, Tiffany loves long walks with her partner and dogs, yoga, the beach, and traveling.
Jenn is a writer from Minnesota who is working on an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University.
Development Coordinator
Alyce is a queer femme ex-academic living in Katarokwi / Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Huron-Wendat. She earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Queen’s University, where she also served as Editor at The Lamp literary journal. Her work focuses on horror and mystery narratives varying from Victorian novels to contemporary monster movies. She has been published in Attack of the New B Movies: Essays on Syfy Original Films (2023), and London’s East End: A Short Encyclopedia (2023). She enjoys cheesy horror flicks, knitting, painting, and playing with her two beautiful cats.
Promotions Manager
Eleanor Whitney (she/her) is a writer, musician, marketer, and community builder based in Brooklyn and the California high desert. Her book Riot Woman, which takes a celebratory but critical look at the Riot Grrrl movement, was published by Microcosm Publishing in 2021 and her book on literary community and book marketing, Promote Your Book, was published by Microcosm in 2023. She recently completed her MFA in creative nonfiction at Queens College and holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural studies from Eugene Lang College and a Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College. Her work has appeared in Windmill magazine, Divagations, Art F City, Weird Sister, and the beloved-but-defunct Bitch and Venus magazines.
Production Manager
Summer Hornbostel (she/her) is the production manager for MAYDAY. Her day job is in healthcare consulting as a proposal editor and project manager. She wrote her first collection of poetry for her senior thesis at Middlebury College, where she graduated in 2022. She continues to write, mostly sporadically in her Notes app. You might find her climbing rocks. You can definitely find her (and her thesis) here.
Production Editors
Jenna Piskothy (she/her) is a writer and editor from Tampa, Florida. She received a BA in Creative and Technical Writing from the University of Tampa and is currently pursuing a career in publishing. In her spare time she enjoys writing, listening to comedy podcasts, and playing with her cat Frankie.
Social Media Specialist
Riya Misra is a student journalist and third-year English major at Rice University. Although she lives in Houston, she spends much effort reminding people that she’s actually from Boston. In her spare time, she enjoys eating soup and reading Eve Babitz.
Director, MAYDAY:Black
CARLA BELL, Director of MAYDAY:Black, is a journalist and editorial consultant in Washington, DC, with bylines at Ebony and Essence magazines, Electric Literature, The North Star, first established by Frederick Douglass in 1847, and many others. Find her work on her website.
Culture Editors
Clement Obropta is an editor and film journalist living in Edinburgh. His work has appeared in publications such as Film Inquiry, Film Daze, and Wanderlust Journal. Poetry published elsewhere.
Lisa Ströhm Winberg is a culture editor and exhibition curator at MAYDAY. She has studied at London College of Contemporary Arts, and holds a BA (hons) degree in Fashion Communication from Heriot-Watt University. At MAYDAY she combines her extensive visual arts knowledge, and background in fashion, with her flair for the written word. Lisa is also a visual artist in her own right, specialized in fine art, fashion and portrait photography, her art can be found on Instagram.
Fiction Editors
Erik Noonan (he/him) is the author of the poetry collections Stances and Haiku d’Etat, and his writing appears in the anthology Cross Strokes. He lives in Oakland.
Megan grew up in Arizona, got her MFA from NYU, and is soon to return to the States from a 5-year stint as an expat in Canada. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Walkabout Creative Arts Journal, Driftwood Press, Fruitslice, and Bone Parade. She loves working with authors as an editor and is currently writing a novel that features a time-traveling cat. Find out more and connect with her on her website.
Mina (she/they) is a writer who can’t seem to get out of the service industry, even after receiving their MFA. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus and she’s been a guest writer for the CPTSD foundation. Mina would like to be a plant in their next life. You can find them on Twitter or Instagram.
Nathan Winer is a writer and editor from Chicago. His work has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review, the Cleveland Review of Books, and MAYDAY Magazine.
Nonfiction Editors
A nomad and citizen of the world, Sara Alaica grew up in Serbia and Canada and writes about her experiences living throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English, has taught literature at Georgia Perimeter College, and was a writer in residence at Taleamor Park and Ucross. Her writing can be found in Pinch, Cleaver, Spry, Hofstra, and Paper Darts, among others. She currently lives in Vancouver with her husband and pet turtle.
Elliott Bueler is a westerner, dad, journalist, and neuroscience researcher. He is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at New York University. His work has appeared in Surface Magazine and others.
Poetry Editors
Xander Gershberg (he/him) is a poetry editor at MAYDAY. His poetry is found or forthcoming in FENCE, The Journal, Plume, TAB Journal, Inverted Syntax, Great River Review, Poetry Online, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Virginia Tech and is based in Minneapolis, where he is on Spout Press’s editorial collective. His creative and scholarly work often engage queer and diasporic kinships, Jewishness, disability, and translation, among others. You can read his work on his website.
Caroline Shurtleff graduated from Baylor University with a degree in English Literature. She works as a bookseller in New Jersey.
Paula Turcotte loves her dog, your dog, and Raisin Bran. She was born and raised on Treaty 7 land, home of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations. Her work has been published in Canthius, HAD, Peatsmoke, and elsewhere, and she was the People’s Choice winner in CV2’s 2023 2-Day Poetry Contest.
Simone Zapata is a queer poet and educator from San José, California. Her recent poetry appears, or is forthcoming in Brink Literary Journal, Inverted Syntax, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Simone’s work has earned scholarships and fellowships from California Institute of the Arts, Community of Writers, BRINK, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She lives in Oakland, California, and you can follow her infrequent bursts of insight on Instagram.
Translation Editors
Pepper Cunningham (she/her) is a writer and editor based in the mountains of Southern Ecuador. She is the Translation Editor at MAYDAY Magazine. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Split Lip, Rust + Moth, Rough Cut Press, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Hope Is The Thing With Teeth, was released this fall with Bottlecap Press. She occasionally tweets.
Jacqueline Schaalje likes discovering new writers in English-language or translated literature, with equal interest in prose and poetry. Her own poetry and short fiction has appeared most recently in Pembroke Magazine, The Comstock Review, and Wildfire Words. She’s the winner of the Florida Review Editor’s Prize 2022, and was a finalist for the Alpine Fellowship and shortlisted in Live Canon’s International Poetry Competition. She participated in the Fall 2022 W2W mentoring program of AWP.
Contributing Editors
Sloane French
Sophia Kaufman
Raki Kopernik
Daniele Pantano
Kirk Sever
Cal Shook