Founded by Kiki Petrosino and Dan Rosenberg.
Current Editors [I17-I18]
Jodi Hooper (she/her) is a poet and fiction writer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work explores themes of the self, learning to embody that self, and the fraught experience of human connection by the way of carnivorous plants, vampirism, and the ever-closing gap between monster and man. Jodi led the writing workshop “Monstrous Poetics: the Abominable Self” in 2022 as a part of the Poetx in Flux writing program series facilitated by River City Revue. Her writing has appeared in Folx Gallery’s Absolute Pleasure exhibition, Raptor Lit online, and Miracle Monocle’s MONSTER micro-anthology. Jodi's editorial credits include Prose Editor (2016-2018), Co-Editor in Chief (2018-2019), and Editor in Chief (2019-2020) of The White Squirrel Literary & Arts Magazine at the University of Louisville, and one of several Poetry Editors for Exit 7: A Journal of Literature & Art at West Kentucky Community & Technical College for the Spring 2016 edition.
Nate Cheshire (she/her) is a visual artist who fell in love with literary journals during her time in undergrad at UofL. She loves mediums, such as comics, that bring art and words together, as well as dense visual and written symbolism. She’s especially fond of Beowulf and Sir Gawain, their many modern adaptations, and her word-hoard.
Editors [Issue 16:]
Ashley Taylor (they/she) is a community arts director (River City Revue, Mind’s Eye Theatre, Highview Arts Center) and author of The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, part of a chaplet series by queer and trans poets from Damaged Goods Press, 2019. In 2020, their writing was honored with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and a Lambda Literary Fellowship Award from Sundress Academy for the Arts. You can find their poems in Tiny Spoon, Yes Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, Vagabond City, Peculiar, and Out/Cast. Ashley works in Special Education with a focus on Emotional Behavior Disorders, and currently teaches as the ECE Assistant at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
Jodi Hooper (she/her) is a poet and fiction writer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work explores themes of the self, learning to embody that self, and the fraught experience of human connection by the way of carnivorous plants, vampirism, and the ever-closing gap between monster and man. Jodi led the writing workshop “Monstrous Poetics: the Abominable Self” in 2022 as a part of the Poetx in Flux writing program series facilitated by River City Revue. Her writing has appeared in Folx Gallery’s Absolute Pleasure exhibition, Raptor Lit online, and Miracle Monocle’s MONSTER micro-anthology. Jodi's editorial credits include Prose Editor (2016-2018), Co-Editor in Chief (2018-2019), and Editor in Chief (2019-2020) of The White Squirrel Literary & Arts Magazine at the University of Louisville, and one of several Poetry Editors for Exit 7: A Journal of Literature & Art at West Kentucky Community & Technical College for the Spring 2016 edition.
Nate Cheshire (she/her) is a visual artist who fell in love with literary journals during her time in undergrad at UofL. She loves mediums, such as comics, that bring art and words together, as well as dense visual and written symbolism. She’s especially fond of Beowulf and Sir Gawain, their many modern adaptations, and her word-hoard.
Editors [Issue 15:]
Ashley Taylor (they/she) is a community arts director (River City Revue, Mind’s Eye Theatre, Highview Arts Center) and author of The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, part of a chaplet series by queer and trans poets from Damaged Goods Press, 2019. In 2020, their writing was honored with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and a Lambda Literary Fellowship Award from Sundress Academy for the Arts. You can find their poems in Tiny Spoon, Yes Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, Vagabond City, Peculiar, and Out/Cast. Ashley works in Special Education with a focus on Emotional Behavior Disorders, and currently teaches as the ECE Assistant at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
Jodi Hooper (she/her) is a poet and fiction writer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work explores themes of the self, learning to embody that self, and the fraught experience of human connection by the way of carnivorous plants, vampirism, and the ever-closing gap between monster and man. Jodi led the writing workshop “Monstrous Poetics: the Abominable Self” in 2022 as a part of the Poetx in Flux writing program series facilitated by River City Revue. Her writing has appeared in Folx Gallery’s Absolute Pleasure exhibition, Raptor Lit online, and Miracle Monocle’s MONSTER micro-anthology. Jodi's editorial credits include Prose Editor (2016-2018), Co-Editor in Chief (2018-2019), and Editor in Chief (2019-2020) of The White Squirrel Literary & Arts Magazine at the University of Louisville, and one of several Poetry Editors for Exit 7: A Journal of Literature & Art at West Kentucky Community & Technical College for the Spring 2016 edition.
Editors for I1-12
Kiki Petrosino (she/her) is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Tin House and on-line at Ploughshares. She teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and the UNT Rilke Prize.
Dan Rosenberg (he/him) is the author of The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press, 2012) and cadabra (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015). He has also written two chapbooks, A Thread of Hands(Tilt Press, 2010) and Thigh's Hollow (Omnidawn, 2015), and he co-translated Miklavž Komelj's Hippodrome (Zephyr Press, 2016). His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. Rosenberg holds a B.A. from Tufts University, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia. He is the chair of the English department at Wells College, where he teaches literature, creative writing, and translation theory. He also coordinates the Wells College Visiting Writers Series and edits the Wells College Press Chapbook Contest.
Editors for I13-14
Andrew Rich (they/he) is a creative, writer, polyglot, and doula. In addition to editing for TRANSOM, they support people through and around thresholds like birth and menstruation. Andrew married Astrid twice in 2017, and together they are a two-headed monster that devours books, loves all things Scandinavian, and produces more than enough hair to clog the shower drain. Andrew is currently working on a poetry project examining parenthood and pregnancy, middle and maiden names, gender and identity, blood and bodies.
Astrid Rich (they/she) is a reportedly tall drink of water. They write strange poetry, plays guitar, and married Andrew two times in three months. They enjoy lifting heavy things repeatedly, black coffee, salty licorice, cold aquavit, doom metal, and Thelonious Monk. Astrid has three degrees, and keeps making syllabi for theirself even though they’re not currently in school. They also edit for Juked. They are currently working on a new writing project concerning occultism, nihilism, cosmic horror, and whatever stage of post-humanism we are currently inhabiting.