MASTHEAD
FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese unamerican diaspora writer based in Boston, MA. Their work revolves around the intersection of dreaming/fantasizing/futurizing and grieving, and focuses on topics of care, diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. The Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Xenolithic Edges Literary, Kyla-Yến’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, ANMLY, fifth wheel press, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, and other publications. They are a 2026 BIPOC Fellow for Trans Poetics Archive, a Press Editor for Half Mystic Press, and a Co-Coordinator for Sundress Publications’ Poets in Pajamas reading series, and have taught writing workshops independently as well as for Split This Rock, Mendocino Art Center, and Table Conversation. Their work has been supported by Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more. You can visit Kyla-Yến's author page at www.kylayenhuynhgiffin.com, and find them on Instagram @yenshrine.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Jamie L. Moore (she/her) is a writer and scholar whose work centers storytelling in the Black feminist tradition.
Jamie’s novella, Our Small Faces, was published by Doubleback Books and is available as an open source PDF. Her creative work can be found in Calyx Journal, Track/Four, The Nervous Breakdown, and TAYO Magazine, among others.
Jamie has presented academic and creative work at the National Conference for Race and Ethnicity, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Strengthening Student Success Conference, and several conferences for The Puente Project.
Her doctoral work explores the care/work of Black and biracial women faculty in community colleges.
Jamie reviews books on her Instagram @mixedreader, particularly highlighting contemporary work by Black and Queer writers.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Mia Arias Tsang (she/her) is a writer based in New York City. Her work explores how queer people try and fail to love each other. Her first collection, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION, is out now with Quilted Press. She lives in Queens with her cat, Peanut, and is working on a novel.