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 Carrie Chappell is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. Some of her poems and reviews have appeared in The Volta, Parcel, Bone Bouquet, Iowa Review, Juked, and The Offending Adam. Currently, she is living in Paris, France.
	Assistant Editor Melissa Wiley is the author of Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split Lip Press, 2017). Her creative nonfiction has appeared in places like The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, Waxwing, The Offing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Juked, Noble / Gas Qtrly, and PANK. She lives in Chicago.
	Fiction Reader Alisia Leyva is currently pursuing an MA in Literature at Central Washington University located in Ellensburg, Washington. In addition, she works as a graduate assistant for Brooks Library. After teaching English in South Korea, she wanted to return to the field of editing and aspires to promote the love of literature.
	Assistant Poetry Editor Leela Chantrelle is a poet and literature enthusiast hailing from San Francisco, California. She received a Bachelor’s in English and Creative Writing from Cornell University in 2014. After, she moved to Paris, France for a few years and just recently moved back to the United States.  Currently, she teaches English at a progressive school in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work can be found in The Menteur and other publications. She has a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Leading with a Naked Body (2019), written in collaboration with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
	Assistant Poetry Editor Jennifer Huang was born in Rockville, Maryland to parents born in Taipei, Taiwan. She is currently an MFA candidate for Poetry at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she received a Civitas Fellowship to teach for InsideOut Detroit. Her work has been published in The Blueshift Journal, The Oakland Review, tenderness lit, and elsewhere. She is still looking for home.
	Nonfiction Editor Berry Grass has lived in rural Missouri, Tuscaloosa, and Philadelphia. They are the author of Hall of Waters (2019, The Operating System). Their essays & poems have been published in DIAGRAM, The Normal School, Territory, Barrelhouse, and Sonora Review, among other publications. When they aren’t reading your submissions, they’re embodying what happens when a Virgo watches too much professional wrestling.
	Design & Layout Editor Cynthia Brandon-Slocum teaches English and shovels snow in Houghton, MI. You can find some of her essays in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, North American Review, Redivider, and Southern Indiana Review.