Staff
Daniel Bowman, Jr.
Editor in Chief
Daniel Bowman Jr. is the author of A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country, which released in 2012 with a small press in Chicago. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Books & Culture, The Midwest Quarterly, Rio Grande Review, Seneca Review, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and many other magazines. He grew up in Mohawk, New York, and lives in Hartford City, Indiana, where he is Associate Professor of English at Taylor University. His memoir On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, & the Gifts of Neurodiversity is out with Brazos Press. He is currently completing revisions on a YA novel called The Autism Journals.
Rachel Roberts
Managing Editor
Rachel Roberts has a degree in creative writing from Taylor University. During her time there, she worked on both the university’s literary magazine, Parnassus, and Relief. After graduation, she moved to Indianapolis to work in the editorial office of a medical journal and has been there since. When not working, she enjoys reading, swimming, sailing, cooking, and wandering around the library.
Aaron Housholder
Fiction Editor
Dr. Aaron Housholder is a Professor of English at Taylor University. He teaches courses in creative writing, composition, World Literature, 18th-Century British literature, and he occasionally co-leads Taylor's Literary London trip. He also supervises Parnassus, Taylor's journal of art and literature. He has graduate degrees in both creative writing and literature, including a PhD in English Literature from Ball State University. His creative work (fiction, flash prose, CNF, poetry) has appeared in more than three dozen literary journals, including Flash Fiction Magazine, Barren Magazine, The Windhover, Ruminate, The Molotov Cocktail, phoebe journal, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Anderson, Indiana, where he watches a ton of Cincinnati Reds baseball, writes (mostly) flash fiction, studies Gothic fiction and the narrative shaping of London and other urban spaces, and dreams of cathedrals.
Katie Karnehm-Esh
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Dr. Katie Karnehm-Esh, a 2002 alum of Indiana Wesleyan University, returned to the Midwest teach composition and creative writing courses in 2008 after completing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She mentors student editors of Indiana Wesleyan University’s literary magazine Caesura, co-leads a May Term Travel Writing class in Ireland, and teaches community yoga classes, all of which inspire her research and writing. Her essays and poetry have been published in Fourth Genre, The Cresset, The Other Journal, Topology, Whale Road Review, Barren Magazine and Windhover.
Sarah M. Wells
Poetry Editor
Sarah M. Wells is the award-winning author of three nonfiction books and two poetry collections. Her work has been honored with four Pushcart Prize nominations, and six of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays in Best American Essays. She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Sarah earned her BA in Creating Writing and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Ashland University. She has taught and presented at dozens of universities and conferences in the last decade. Sarah is a regular contributor to Root & Vine News and Our Daily Bread’s website for women, God Hears Her. Wells lives in Ashland, Ohio with her husband and three children. Learn more at sarahmariewells.com.
H.P. Nixon Graphic Designer — Social Media Manager
H.P. Nixon (they/he) is a recent alum of Indiana Wesleyan University, where he studied Writing and Illustration. As a student, Nixon was the Design Editor of the student literature and art magazine, Caesura, a designer and copywriter for the Indiana Wesleyan Theatre Guild’s PR Team, and a Writing tutor at the Ink Well. They are currently working on editing and illustrating their middle-grade poetry book, The Rainbow Plaid Fall Coat, and Other Better and More Funny Poems, and keeping an eye out for exciting career opportunities. you can find them at changelingarts.com.