Pictura Journal began in a dim midwestern kitchen during tornado season. A handful of storms and years and missteps later, we’ve finally managed to get it put together. Thanks for joining us.

We’ll have a fuller masthead up soon, but for now:

Alicia Wright, Founding Editor

Alicia received an MFA from Bowling Green State University and worked for Mid-American Review and Rabble Lit. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Crawfish, Same Faces Collective, Kestrel, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Sweet Tree Review, The Cape Rock, Sugared Water, Kenning Journal, and elsewhere. She currently moonlights as a freelance copy editor, proofreader and community literacy educator and has been writing poetry and short prose for more than 20 years.

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We’re looking for a volunteer reader or two to help review submissions. No editing experience is required! Since we’re a new journal, the time commitment for readers might be minimal for now, but if you’d like to join us you can send your bio and publication credits or a brief writing sample to hello@picturajournal.com.