Mission / History
Gasher Press dedicates itself to supporting literary communities and emerging voices through meaningful collaboration and transformative vision. Since 2018, our mission has remained simple: We want art that guts with surgical precision. Make everything useful. We seek poetry that is bright, bursting from the seams of tradition with originality and sensibility in its pursuance of poetic frontiers. Whatever is next in poetry is what we are after.
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Executive Editor / Co-Director of Boor Soirée / Design
Whitney Koo
Koo is the author of Any Gesture (Black Lawrence Press). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Georgia Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She works as a professor of English in the Honors College at UNLV.
Managing Editor / Co-Director of Boor Soirée
William Brown
Brown is a poet whose work has appeared in journals such as Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, The Hopkins Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere, and he has been nominated for awards such as Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. He grew up in rural Georgia, earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida, and is currently finishing his PhD at Texas Tech University, where he studies environmental and rural literatures.
Senior Book Editor
Remi Recchia
Recchia is a Lambda Special Prize-winning poet, essayist, and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He is the author of two collections of poetry and four poetry chapbooks, and he is the editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies. With over a decade of editorial experience, Remi has received support from institutions such as Tin House, PEN America, and the Poetry Foundation. He holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in English. Remi is currently pursuing an M.Div. at Yale University.
Associate Editor
Kiana Shaley
Shaley is the author of Entrance, forthcoming with Futurepoem. Her poems have appeared in Fugue Journal, Redivider, The Racket, and other publications. She teaches at Long Beach State University and Santa Monica College, serves as the poetry editor for Exposition Review and lives in Los Angeles.
Chapbook Editor
Julieanne Larick
Larick is a writer from Ohio, currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin. Past experience includes the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, a Fulbright grant to Serbia, and a residency with the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Julieanne has work published in The Allegheny Review, Cider Press Review, Passengers Journal, and elsewhere.
Chapbook Editor
Diya Abbas
Diya Abbas is a Pakistani Butch from the Midwest. Her poems and essays can be found in Sinister Wisdom, Adroit, North American Review, The Offing, Michigan Quarterly and others. She believes the poem is a clock. The poem makes time. Find more of her muses at diyabbas.com.
Two Languages Prize Editor
Melanie Hyo-In Han
Born in Korea and raised in East Africa, Melanie Hyo-In Han is a poet, translator, and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey. She holds an MFA in Poetry and Translation from Emerson College and is the author of My Dear Yeast and three chapbooks, as well as the translator of several collections of Spanish poetry. Han has received awards from The International Human Rights Art Movement and others, and fellowships from Sundress Academy for the Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Kees Eijrond Foundation, and elsewhere. Currently, she is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Flora Fiction. Learn more at melaniehan.com.