About

Gigantic Sequins is a not-for-profit literary-arts journal. We are print-based and publish an issue 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. We enjoy publishing 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 through our uniquely designed journal and promotion of our contributors via media, especially on the internet.

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 in Ploughshares, The Normal School, The Offending Adam, Chautauqua, and TYPO. She currently lives in Texas, where she teaches in the creative writing department at the High School for Visual and Performing Arts,  and is 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 Barrelhouse, eliemae, Sawbuck, Big Lucks, The Boog City Reader #3, PANK, decomP and others. She is an adjunct professor and teaches American English Grammar and Experiencing Literature at Rowan University. Follow her on twitter @kimannjosouth

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

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