April Bradley, Editor and Publisher
April is a Durham, North Carolina-based writer and therapist. April’s fiction and essays appear or are forthcoming in Blink Ink, CHEAP POP, CRAFT Literary, Gone Lawn, Heavy Feather Review, jmww, NANO Fiction, Narratively, New Flash Fiction Review, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. April is a Best American Essays, Best of Microfiction, Best of Small Fictions, and Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as a graduate of Yale University and The College of William & Mary. Find April online at aprilbradley and on Instagram @aprilteresabradley.
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Amy Cipolla Barnes, Assistant Editor
Amy Cipolla Barnes has words at FlashBack Fiction, X-R-A-Y Lit, McSweeney’s, The Citron Review, jmww, Flash Frog, Janus Literary, Trampset, The Bureau Dispatch, Scraw Place, Spartan Lit, Allrecipes, The Spruce Eats, Apartment Therapy and many other sites. She’s a Fractured Lit associate editor, Gone Lawn co-editor, and reads for Taco Bell Quarterly, Retreat West, CRAFT, and The MacGuffin. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, longlisted for Wigleaf50, and included in Best Small Fictions 2022. Her debut flash collection “Mother Figures” was published by ELJ Editions in June, 2021 with a full length collection AMBROTYPES published by word west in March, 2022.
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Jessie Payne, Associate Editor
Jessie Payne is a decades long vegetarian. She loves to cook, and eat what she cooks. With few legacy recipes, she enjoys creating her own. Jessie writes flash fiction, short stories and novels. Her work can be found in Ambit, Janus Literary and Popshot Quarterly. Her novella-in-flash was a finalist in the Black River Chapbook competition, and her work was shortlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize.
RUBY nameplate photograph by Honza Emler