MASTHEAD
Saw Palm is edited and produced by MFA students at USF, so the editorial and production staff changes every year. John Fleming is the advisory editor.
To contact an editor directly, please address to the appropriate editor and send your email to sawpalmeditors@gmail.com
To contact an editor directly, please address to the appropriate editor and send your email to sawpalmeditors@gmail.com
MANAGING EDITOR
Kat Lewis graduated from Johns Hopkins University where she held the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellowship. In 2018, she received a Fulbright Creative Arts grant in South Korea. Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, PANK Magazine, and The Rumpus. She is currently an MFA student at the University of South Florida.
FICTION EDITORS
Kat Lewis
Callie Treadway is a multi-genre writer and artist from the deep rural South, pursuing an MFA at the University of South Florida. Fascinated by the fluidity of human experience and how art is used to capture subjective truth, her work explores: gender, trauma, the body and its connection to nature, family dynamics, and mental illness. Other tendencies include thrift shopping, horoscope reading, nature watching, and the collecting of witchy ephemera.
McKenzie Zalopany is a queer artist based out of the Tampa Bay area. Her work has appeared in The Boiler, Superstition Review, and elsewhere.
Callie Treadway is a multi-genre writer and artist from the deep rural South, pursuing an MFA at the University of South Florida. Fascinated by the fluidity of human experience and how art is used to capture subjective truth, her work explores: gender, trauma, the body and its connection to nature, family dynamics, and mental illness. Other tendencies include thrift shopping, horoscope reading, nature watching, and the collecting of witchy ephemera.
McKenzie Zalopany is a queer artist based out of the Tampa Bay area. Her work has appeared in The Boiler, Superstition Review, and elsewhere.
NONFICTION EDITORS
Madison Frazier writes poetry and nonfiction. Her work usually focuses on chronic illness and the female body. Her work has appeared in Sweet: A Literary Confection, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and elsewhere.
Jessica Watson is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of South Florida. She holds degrees in Nursing and Ecology from UM and UCONN, respectively. Her writing themes include mental health, music, the body, nursing and nature. She's currently working on a book of essays about the body in nursing and illness. Her work is published in Speculative Nonfiction, Mud Season Review, and Sweetlit.
Tyra White has been focusing on writing that prioritizes the black woman experience of growing up in Chicago, Illinois through fictional and nonfictional essays. In addition to being a Graduate Teaching Assistant at USF, she provides experience in editorial, satirical, and screen writing. Her educational background in diversity and inclusion has given her a broad base from which to approach many topics.
Jessica Watson is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of South Florida. She holds degrees in Nursing and Ecology from UM and UCONN, respectively. Her writing themes include mental health, music, the body, nursing and nature. She's currently working on a book of essays about the body in nursing and illness. Her work is published in Speculative Nonfiction, Mud Season Review, and Sweetlit.
Tyra White has been focusing on writing that prioritizes the black woman experience of growing up in Chicago, Illinois through fictional and nonfictional essays. In addition to being a Graduate Teaching Assistant at USF, she provides experience in editorial, satirical, and screen writing. Her educational background in diversity and inclusion has given her a broad base from which to approach many topics.
POETRY EDITORS
Audrey Blanco is currently a second-year MFA/Poetry candidate at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Lammergeier has been kind enough to publish her. When she is not writing, reading, or answering student emails, she is drinking tea, baking, farmers’ marketing or generally homebodying to her heart’s content.
Gabrielle Grilli is a twenty-three-year-old poetry writer in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of South Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelors of Arts in English with minors in French and Florida Teaching. Gabrielle frequently writes free verse poetry focusing on day to day experiences. She is a huge fan of the Beatles and even has a guinea pig named Eleanor Rigby.
Sarah Harder lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is pursing an M.F.A in poetry and works as a writing instructor at the University of South Florida. She has been published in various literary journals, including IO Literary Journal, Glass Mountain, and Furrow Magazine. In her free time, Harder enjoys reading poetry about ghosts, and spoiling her friends' pets when she thinks no one is looking.
Noelle Knopp is a graduate student studying mass communications. She spends her time working as a graphic designer and pursuing her creative interests. Noelle is on the design team for Saw Palm and is currently working to publish her own poetry book.
Gabrielle Grilli is a twenty-three-year-old poetry writer in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of South Florida. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelors of Arts in English with minors in French and Florida Teaching. Gabrielle frequently writes free verse poetry focusing on day to day experiences. She is a huge fan of the Beatles and even has a guinea pig named Eleanor Rigby.
Sarah Harder lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is pursing an M.F.A in poetry and works as a writing instructor at the University of South Florida. She has been published in various literary journals, including IO Literary Journal, Glass Mountain, and Furrow Magazine. In her free time, Harder enjoys reading poetry about ghosts, and spoiling her friends' pets when she thinks no one is looking.
Noelle Knopp is a graduate student studying mass communications. She spends her time working as a graphic designer and pursuing her creative interests. Noelle is on the design team for Saw Palm and is currently working to publish her own poetry book.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS
Audrey Blanco
Callie Treadway
McKenzie Zalopany
Callie Treadway
McKenzie Zalopany
DESIGN, PRODUCTION, & WEB EDITORS
Sarah Harder
Noelle Knopp
Jessica Watson
Noelle Knopp
Jessica Watson
