Pleiades

Submissions for the Prufer Poetry Prize will be closing in three days, October 31st. Judged by Cedar Sigo, the winner receives $1,000 and publication in PLEIADES. Visit our website submissions page for full guidelines!

For this masthead Monday, we would like to introduce one of our fiction editors! Brandi Wells is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Fullerton. They have a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Southern California and an MFA in creative writing from University of Alabama. Their novel, Cleaner was published by Wildfire/Headline (UK) and and Hanover Square Press/Harpercollins (US).

For this masthead Monday, please welcome our CNF editor! Ashley Anderson is the author of the essay collection Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body (University of Georgia Press, 2026.) Her creative nonfiction, fiction, and criticism have appeared in Quarter After Eight, Permafrost, Newfound, Tahoma Literary Review, Wraparound South, SLAB, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and others. She holds a PhD in English with a creative writing emphasis from the University of Missouri and MA degrees from Kent State University and the University of Cincinnati. When not writing or teaching, Ashley can often be found drinking a lot of coffee, making a lot of crafts, and listening to a lot of Taylor Swift.

Some fun facts about Ashley:
- Tacos are my all-time favorite food.
- I stayed at the worst AirBnB of my life at an AWP conference.
- I named my car Kiwi the Kia.