About

Gigantic Sequins is a not-for-profit literary-arts magazine. We are a print-based magazine published twice a year, once in the spring/summer, once in the fall/winter. Our black & white journal is known for its quality of writing as well as its unique design and aesthetic. We accept work from writers who have never been published as well as those who have established their voice already in the literary community. We enjoy printing writers who have their hands in various sorts of figurative, creative cookie jars. We are interested in cultivating an artistic community over a widespread area. We believe that community, however, should never be focused in one place, especially in these technologically impressive days.

Gigantic Sequins 3.1 features Kimberly Ann Southwick as Editor in chief, Goodloe Byron as the Designer, Sophie Klahr as Poetry Editor, Zach Yontz as Fiction Editor, and Ian Carlos Crawford as the Prose Reader.

Gigantic Sequins 3.2 will feature Kimberly Ann Southwick as Editor-in-chief, Shereen Adel as the Designer, Sophie Klahr as Poetry Editor, Zach Yontz as Fiction Editor, and Ian Carlos Crawford as Non-Fiction Editor.

Current Staff Bios

Ian Carlos Crawford grew up in southern New Jersey. He graduated with his MFA in nonfiction writing from New School and currently lives in Astoria, New York. He loves puppies, comic books, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Sophie Klahr is from Pittsburgh, PA, and is the author of the chapbook (Blank) Versus Recovery (Pilot Books). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Chautauqua, Lo-Ball, Pank Magazine, Ploughshares, The Normal School, The Offending Adam, and TYPO. She teaches poetry at the High School for Visual and Performing Arts in Houston, where she is also an assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast, and an MFA candidate at the University of Houston. http://www.sophieklahr.com/

Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of Gigantic Sequins. She lives in Philadelphia and earned her BFA in Writing, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College and her Masters in English from New York University. Her poetry has been published in The Broome Street Review, eliemae, Sawbuck, Big Lucks and The Boog City Reader #3 and is forthcoming in Barrelhouse. She is an adjunct professor and teaches American English Grammar and Experiencing Literature at Rowan University.

Zach Yontz is an archivist.  He currently lives in Chicago.

Please see our Archives to view the mastheads of our previous issues.

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