Meet Our Team
Ryn Swinson | Co-Founder and Editor | Non-fiction and Poetry
Ryn Swinson (she/they) is an Oklahoma-based writer and artist. She graduated from Cameron University with a BA in English and a minor in Professional Writing. Her previous editorial positions include The Oklahoma Review, Editor-in-Chief; The Gold Mine, Managing Editor; Cameron Collegian, Copy Editor and Staff Writer; and Southwest Impressions, Contributing Writer. Her writing focuses on womanhood/girlhood, childhood, the natural world, and violence associated with Oklahoma. Outside of running a literary magazine, Ryn enjoys thrifting, karaoke, nature documentaries, feminism, gender studies and queer theory. Her work has appeared in The Gold Mine, Cameron Collegian, Southwest Impressions, swim press, The Oklahoma Review (forthcoming).
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Kaley Muse | Co-Founder and Editor | Fiction and Poetry
Kaley Muse (she/her) graduated from Cameron University with a Bachelors in English and a minor in Journalism. Her previous positions include Editor-in-Chief for The Gold Mine, Managing Editor for The Oklahoma Review, and Managing Editor, Page Editor, and Copy Editor for the Cameron Collegian. Though she enjoys writing many types of things, Kaley mainly writes poetry with heavy political themes centered around global and national issues such as genocide and race inequity. Her work has been featured in The Gold Mine and The Cameron Collegian. Besides writing extremely heavy poems and crying about the state of the world, Kaley enjoys lounging around her house with her bulldog, Leo, watching sad movies, spilling family drama with her parents, giggling with her best friend, and advocating for social change.