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A Velvet Giant

a genreless literary journal

  • about
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  • masthead
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  • Issues
    • Issue 10
    • Issue 9
    • Issue 8
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    • Issue 6
    • Issue 5
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Erika Walsh • Co-Founder & Editor

Erika (she/her) is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Alabama. Erika's creative writing has been featured in Hotel Amerika, Booth, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Peach Mag, Juked, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies from The Sundress Academy of the Arts and Art Farm Nebraska, as well as a fellowship from Brooklyn Poets. Find more here.

Photo by Jude Durr

Emma Sheinbaum • Co-Founder & Editor

Emma (she/her) lives in Brooklyn where she writes essays, poems, and multimedia/video projects. Her work has been published by Barrelhouse Magazine, Cobra Milk (forthcoming), TriQuarterly, Milk Press, Metatron Press, Juked, and The InQueery, among others. The Sundress Academy for the Arts and The Poetry Society of New York have awarded her with residencies. Emma has experience teaching essay writing and multimedia poetry. Learn more here.

 

Francesca Hodge • Journal Illustrator

Francesca (she/they) is an illustrator, production designer, and writer. Her work is heavily influenced by surrealism and the natural world. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Visit their Instagram here.

 
 

Jaric Sarmiento • Reader

Jaric (he/him) is a multi-genre MFA candidate at the University of Alabama and co-creator of 108webnovel.com, an interactive multimedia digital novel. His creative writing has been featured in No Contact and The Other Side of Hope. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @anflowcrat.

Leon Barros • Reader

Leon (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based editor and poet. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming in ANMLY, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, A Velvet Giant and more. They currently serve as co-Editor-in-Chief of Milk Press, the multi-disciplinary journal of the Poetry Society of New York.