Founder & Director

Diamond Gizelle Braxton

Diamond Braxton "MANTÉ" (they/she) is a queer, mixed-race Black and Mexican American writer, editor, and educator based in Texas. She has work published in Best Microfiction 2023, Sundress Publication's Best of the Net anthology, The Forge, The Hellebore, Foglifter, Stanchion, and others. They are a Tin House and Lambda Literary Alum, and in 2025, they will be a writer in residence at Hedgebrook. They hold an MFA in Fiction Creative Writing from Texas State University. She is the Founder and Director of Abode Press, a 501(c)3 nonprofit publishing press based in the American South dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of genre-bending Texan stories. Learn more at www.diamondgizellebraxton.com.

Senior Poetry Acquisitions

SG Huerta

SG Huerta (they/he/el) is a queer Xicanx writer from Dallas. A 2023 Roots Wounds Words Fellow and 2024 Tin House Winter Workshop alum. SG is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Things We Bring with Us (Headmistress Press 2021) and Last Stop (Defunkt Magazine 2023), and the forthcoming nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, The Offing, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. They also write a newsletter on all things trans &/or literary at transpoetica.substack.com. Find them at sghuertawriting.com, or in Texas with their partner and two cats.

Senior Prose Acquisitions

Addie Tsai

​Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor in Chief at the LGBTQIA+ fashion literary and arts magazine just femme & dandy.

Senior Hybrid Acquisitions

Mike Zendejas

​Michael Zendejas (he/him) received a Fiction MFA at UMass Amherst. He runs the film blog, The Chicano Film Shelf, and was an inaugural recipient of the Rose Fellowship, a Juniper Fellow, a 2022 winner of the James W. Foley Memorial Prize and was in the inaugural cohort of the Emerging Writers Fellowship. He consults and teaches classes on Fiction, Poetry and Screenwriting via GrubStreet. His work is featured or forthcoming in: Stanchion, North American Review, Unstamatic, Five2One Magazine and elsewhere. He's currently working on a novel!

Social Media Manager

Beck Guerra Carter

Beck Guerra Carter (they/she) is a butch poet from Austin, Texas. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Texas State University. You can find Beck's work in Lavender Review, the lickety~split, Sinister Wisdom, FEED, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere.

Graphic Designer

féi hernandez

féi hernandez (b.1993, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, formerly undocumented immigrant. She is a 2023 Lambda Literary fellow and 2022 Tin House Scholar. féi is the author of HOOD CRIATURA (Sundress Publications, 2020) and the forthcoming (UN)DOCU MENTE (Noemi Press, 2025). féi’s poetry/ prose is published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Academy of American Poets, Hayden Ferry’s Review, TransLash Media and forthcoming, Split This Rock and anthology Here to Stay in Fall 2024. féi is descendent of the Pi’ma, Rarámuri, and Cora peoples. For more of her projects and services visit: feihernandez.com 

Events Manager

Em Fullenwider

Em Fullenwider(she/they) is a queer writer/poet born and raised in Texas who received an MFA in poetry from Texas State University. They are currently working on a full length poetry collection and value building and maintaining community in Texas. You can catch them making coffee and crafts or listening to good tunes in their free time.

Book Publicity Manager

Turi Sioson

Turi Sioson (she/they) is a queer, Filipina-Italian American poet, editor, and publicist in Austin, TX. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Epiphany Magazine, The Texas Review, and The Freshwater Review, among others. She is also the publicity director and poetry/fiction editor at Sunstroke Press, and a reader and reviewer for ONLY POEMS. She holds a BA in English from The University of Texas at Austin, and is currently working on her debut poetry collection. You can find her sitting in the sun after a long swim or at www.turisioson.com.

Administrative Assistant 

Divine Byrd

Divine Byrd is a queer, Black writer and attorney living in Austin, Texas with her two daughters. She writes primarily Young Adult novels focused on exploring Black ancestral history and culture. 

Poetry Editorial Assistant

Isaac Salazar

Isaac Salazar (he/him) is an Austin-born and Houston-based poet. His work is published in AGNI, Hayden's Ferry Review, Honey Literary, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. He is a graduate student at Rice University.