FOUNDER & EDITOR

Ngozi Cole is a Sierra Leonean writer and journalist covering social issues. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and a 2022 Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting fellow. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Brittle Paper and Afreada.

MANAGING EDITOR

Charmaine Denison-George is from Freetown, Sierra Leone. She holds an M.F.A degree in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Denison-George is an English Language and Literature educator residing in Texas, USA. Her work can be found in Isele Magazine, Brittle Paper, Kinsman Avenue Publishing’s ‘Black Diaspora’ (2024), and Afritondo’s ‘Travelling Men Don’t Die’ (2024).

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Mayenie Conton has a BA degree in Literature, Media, and Communication from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written screenplays, poems, short stories, and directed and produced a short film. She hopes to pursue a graduate degree.

INTERN

Mariam Fofana is a Sierra Leonean & junior at Northwestern University studying Anthropology, History, and Chinese. Her research work zeroes in on West African diasporic life, with a particular focus on migration, memory, and the ways people rebuild belonging across borders. She is especially interested in using storytelling as an archive of the experiences that comprise the Black experience.