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Sienna Morgan, Founding Editor
Sienna Morgan is a literary artist from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Palmade Poiēmas: For This Is My Handiwork, (self-published, 2023). She is a Reader Board Member for Sundress Publications and a 2025 Periplus Fellow. She has received support from the Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge. Her poems, short stories, and essays explore personal inspiration. She uses vivid imagery and detailed descriptions, drawing from visual and fine arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including Colorism Healing; The Black Light Project; Black Oak Society Magazine; midnight & indigo; The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture & Politics; The North Carolina Poetry Society; and she is the Founding Editor of BIPOCRYPHA Magazine.
Brittany Morgan Armstead, Managing Editor
Brittany Morgan Armstead’s greatest joy in life is being a wife to Dennis and a stepmom to Carter and Dallas. She also enjoys reading and loves caring for animals. She is neurodivergent, diagnosed with ADHD, and she also battles anxiety and depression. She practices deep breathing techniques, meditation, and uses daily journaling as a way to manage life’s ups and downs. She is currently working remotely as an academic advisor for Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH advising business students throughout their degree. Her career spans a broad range of fields from pharmacy, human resources, entrepreneurship as a career consultant, and now higher education. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC and a Master of Business Administration from Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, NC. She is currently working on a second bachelor’s degree – a BA in Sociology with minors in Political Science, History, and Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Shainah M. Andrews, Poetry Editor
Shainah M. Andrews (ShaiYaa when she speaks her poetry) is a Christian Black creative who has been dreaming and writing as early as second grade. The North Carolina-based artist and educator writes, performs, and speaks primarily through the lens of food, language, and heritage travel; her time spent in England, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Colombia, Brazil, at East Carolina University (where she earned a BA in English and TESOL certificate and is currently re-enrolled to earn a high school ELA teaching licensure), and throughout the U.S. largely informs the Connecticut native’s work and entire being. Hoping to heal people and propel them towards their own purpose, Shainah M. Andrews/ShaiYaa uses her pen and voice to uplift and bring light to a world desperately in need of it.
D’Sean J. Jackson, Cover and Interior Artist
D’Sean J. Jackson goes by her middle name, Janae. She is a young African American woman from North Carolina. Janae is the owner of the trademarked art brand named “Creative Activity Inc.” She has participated in different forms of art throughout her existence. As she’s gotten older, her passion and love for art has done nothing but grown larger.