FOUNDING EDITOR

Asheley Nova Navarro is a Dominican poet living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Brink, Waxwing Literary Journal, North American Review, and Shō Poetry Journal, among others. She is the founding editor of Sontag Mag and a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal.

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITOR

Aiman Tahir Khan is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan, and the inaugural Pakistan Youth Poet Laureate in English. Her work appears in Nimrod International Journal, Harpur Palate, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. 

POETRY READER

Aanji Sin is a queer Chinese American poet from the Los Angeles area. She is a recent graduate of Scripps College and holds a BA in English Literature. Her moon is in Aquarius, and she enjoys Asian American literature and soy lattes. Her poetry appears in the Agave Review.

POETRY READER

Aanya Mehta is in her senior year, majoring in English literature. Her love for literature has been immense, and she is interested in pursuing her research in the field of literature itself. Other than creative writing, she does street photography, which has helped her heighten the level of observation needed to write creative and effective poetry. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies, and her photographs have been displayed in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India.

POETRY READER

Anna Erre recently graduated from a publishing and editing master’s degree in Paris, France. She currently works freelance as an editor and proofreader, tries to learn how to tattoo, and spends the rest of her time browsing second-hand bookstores. She loves trees more than anything in the world.

POETRY READER

Jai Michelle Louissen is the EIC of a literary journal, The Winged Moon. Scottish, living in the Netherlands, with an education in literature, systemic therapy, and meditation, she writes about identity, trauma, and loss. Published recently in Poetry Scotland, Dust, and Eche, you can follow her on X and Bluesky IG @bornonadarkmoon.

POETRY READER

Suzanne Claridge is a writer, researcher, and artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her arts writing and poetry can be found in unMagazine, Performance Review, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD candidate; her interdisciplinary research explores social history, feminist postcolonial studies, diasporic studies, archives, and poetics. She is also a member of the editorial collective for Lilith: A Feminist History Journal. 

INTERVIEW STAFF

Amarys Dejai is a multifaceted writer from Austin, Texas. Her poetry and prose have been published by Local Wolves, Foglifter, and others. In addition to working with Sontag, she is currently the Director of Writing for the Austin-based art and creative magazine Glaze, a music journalist for the press outlet Punkaganda, and a staff writer for Hayat Life Magazine. Alongside being a writer, she is a photographer, artist, and educator. 

STAFF REVIEWER

Rishi Janakiraman is a poet and essayist who writes from Raleigh, NC. He has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Urban Word, Young Poets Network, Bow Seat, and Best of SNO. A Top 15 Foyle Young Poet of the Year, his work has been published in The New York Times, The Poetry Society, Rust + Moth, and Dishsoap Quarterly, among others. He serves as the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Polyphony Lit and as the NC Youth Poet Laureate.