Ian Powell-Palm // Editor-in-Chief
Ian (Co-Founder, Editor-In-Chief) is a writer, poet, and musician currently splitting time between Amherst, Massachusetts and Bozeman, Montana. His debut chapbook “Highway Fatality” was published by Divot Lit Press in Summer 2022. His work has been published in journals such as Frontier Poetry, Rowayat, Chiron Review, American Poetry Journal, and others. He is a four time Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net nominee, and has studied with poets such as Bianca Stone, Martin Espada, and CA Conrad. He is a PhD candidate at UMass Amherst, and founded Rejected Lit Mag alongside fellow poet Emily Clarke. He is now the sole owner and EIC of the magazine. His work attempts to interrogate familial trauma, sexual identity, and the resurrection of the dead.
Annika Sost // Deputy Creative Director
Annika Sost is a journalist and a writer in her free time- hoping to not feed into the “Künstler ohne Werk”-theory. Currently living in New York, she usually lives somewhere between England and Germany. She studied in Cologne and London Comparative Literature, Languages and Journalism. Anni is trained as a journalist by DW and BJTC accredited. She likes to work with human stories and anything that is influenced by the art. She has recently discovered webdesign for herself. Therefore, enjoy this website!
Matt Powell-Palm // Creative Director
Matt Powell-Palm is a Montanan inventor, thermodynamicist, and engineer, shadowed for decades by an unrelenting interest in art across mediums. Matt is a professor of mechanical engineering, materials science, and biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University, and has published widely on organ & tissue cryopreservation, the planetary science of distant icy worlds, and myriad other topics touched by his core concerns in aqueous thermodynamics and physical chemistry. Matt is a working saxophonist and composer, and enjoys the primordial intermingling of poetry, science, music, and every abstract expression of the human heart.