the editrix collective
writers of prose & poetry
Our Mission
Using our shared & diverse perspectives to bring our art to its fullest potential through dialogue, critique, collaboration, & community
Meet The Editrix Collective
Liana Mack
Liana Mack (she/her) is a writer born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Her nonfiction and poetry appeared in The Cut (New York Magazine), Heroine, and dirt child. She won residencies from Atlantic Center for the Arts with Eileen Myles in Florida, the Edith Wharton Straw Dog Writer’s Guild at The Mount in the Berkshires and GilsfjodurArts in the Westfjords of Iceland. She graduated from Purchase College with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts. Her work dwells on misogynoir, glamour, sex, and the grotesque. She loves watching movies and pink lightbulbs.
Yasmine Ameli
Yasmine Ameli (she/her) is a biracial Iranian American writer from and currently based outside Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Tech. Yasmine has been the recipient of scholarships and grants from Poets and Writers, Reese’s Book Club, MASS MoCA, the Edith Wharton House, the Straw Dog Writers Guild, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The Muse and the Marketplace Conference at Grub Street, Boston Writers of Color, and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies. In addition to reading and editing for the minnesota review, she has served as a juror for contests, such as the 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 2021 Minerva Rising Chapbook Contest, the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the 2020 Virginia Tech Undergraduate Poetry Contest. Her poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Ploughshares, The Sun, the Southern Review, AGNI, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, A Public Space, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, ROOM Magazine, Frontier Poetry, The Rumpus, Crazyhorse, Mizna, BITCH Media, Nimrod, Nowruz Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing through the Loft Literary Center and Grub Street as well as offers writing coaching services independently.
Ella Jacobson
Ella Jacobson is a cultural critic and creative nonfiction writer from Alaska. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Drift, Slate, The Guardian, High Country News, and Real Life, among other publications. Much of her work explores how people metabolize their exposures to violence and death. She earned a Masters in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University, and has been supported with residencies and awards from The Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Guild, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Monson Arts, Good Hart, and I-Park. You can find her on Twitter @_ellajacobson.
Elizabeth Wright Weissberg
Elizabeth Wright Weissberg's narrative nonfiction investigates questions of meaning and purpose. Their most recent writing explores these themes in the context of grief. They received an MFA from NYU’s Literary Reportage program in 2021, and they hold a BA in philosophy from Yale, where they focused on applied ethics. They have worked as a reported essayist for Weave: The Social Fabric Project at The Aspen Institute and have been published by Thirty West, Soft Punk Magazine, Lens&pens, Teachers College Press, The Life Partners, and Wabi-Sabi Journeys. Elizabeth is a former Yale-China Teaching Fellow and AmeriCorps volunteer.
Recent Collaborative Publications
ELLA
In 2012, a team of medical researchers brought pancreatic cancer patients into the desert, and once there, buried the patients up to their necks in sand. After the patients’ body temperatures increased to 104.9 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers removed them.
My father, in the month before he died, wanted to participate in this study. I’d like to say he was attracted by the medieval corporeality of it — shared the researchers’ absurd hope that extreme heat, conducted by crushed rocks, might succeed where chemo and radiation failed. My father felt no such excitement. This was simply the last experimental trial we could find...
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