About Us

Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality.

Sundog Lit is equally committed to uplifting voices from all corners in hopes of breaking down ideas of who is widely read and rebelling against normative power structures that stifle expression.

We are honored to be a platform for artists to showcase their life-giving work, and we care deeply about participating in a loving, ethical, and intersectional literary community.

We hope you like what we got going on. Check out our latest issue, or better yet, submit your own work. Got questions not answered here? Email us at sundoglit@gmail.com.

	Poetry Editor Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA from UC Davis, where she was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow for Creative Arts. Her poems appears in Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Passages North, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Vagabond City Lit, and other publications. You can follow her on Twitter @sabzi_k or at www.sabakeramati.com.
	Fiction Editor Eric Rasmussen has lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin for most of his life. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, founded the regional literary journal Barstow & Grand, and has placed stories in Third Coast, North American Review, Fugue, Blue Mesa Review (2022 Fiction Contest winner), and Pithead Chapel, among others. He does indeed like milk, just not enough to drink it every day. www.theotherericrasmussen.com
	Assistant Fiction Editor Zoë Raine recently traded Marquette (MI) snow for Bellingham (WA) rain and is months away from receiving her MFA at Western Washington University. She has worked for Passages North, Fractured Lit, and Bellingham Review. Her work is featured (or forthcoming) in The Hunger, Maudlin House, Lost Balloon, Invisible City, A Velvet Giant, and Defunkt Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @ZoRaineMaki1 and on her website https://www.zoeraine.net/.
	Associate Poetry Editor Alyssa Froehling received her MFA from Ohio State in 2021 and her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Puerto Del Sol, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Find her at alyssummaritimum.com.
	Assistant Poetry Editor Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a Pushcart-nominated poet, organizer, activist, and educator. He is the founder, host, and curator for Word is Bond, a community-centered reading series that raises funds for transnational relief efforts and mutual aid organizations. Previously, he has read, written, and organized for the Adroit Journal, served as assistant director for Polyphony Lit‘s Summer Scholars Program, among other ventures. His work has appeared or will soon in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Dilla. You can keep up with his poems, political tirades, and Amy Winehouse obsession on his Instagram @prettytoneywrites.
	Nonfiction Editor Kimberly Rooney 高小荣 is a Chinese-American adoptee from Jiangsu Province. Their writing has appeared in The Offing, Longleaf Review, Chestnut Review, and Waxwing Magazine, among others, and has been recognized as a 2022 Best of the Net Finalist. When they aren’t writing or working, they enjoy calligraphy, singing, and crocheting. They now live in Philadelphia with their cat, Toaster. You can find them at kimrooneywrites.com or on Substack at Decisions and Revisions.
	Nonfiction Editor Sean Ironman holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida, both with an emphasis in creative nonfiction.  His essays and comics have appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, New South, The Writer’s Chronicle, Redivider, and Nashville Review, among others. Currently, he teaches creative writing at Susquehanna University, where he is at work on his first book, a memoir titled As Many Roast Bones As You Need. You can find him on Bluesky @hankelford.bsky.social and at www.seanironman.com.
	Managing Editor  Cynthia Brandon-Slocum teaches writing in Houghton, MI. You can find some of her essays in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, North American Review, Redivider, Water~Stone Review, and Southern Indiana Review.

Fiction Readers

Starting with issue #27, the Sundog fiction team is trying something new. We established a pool of readers, all of whom are previous contributors to the journal. Each issue, whichever pool members are interested and available are invited to read submissions, then participate in the selection process. We hope this builds a unique, ongoing sense of community, but mostly we’re stoked to maintain a connection with our former contributors, because they’re all REALLY impressive people.

If you are a former fiction contributor and you’d like to be part of the fiction reader pool (sorry we missed you!), please reach out to editor Eric Rasmussen at rasmeric@gmail.com.