About Us

We are a small, independent, non-profit press. We aim to publish work that is in-between genre, in-between spaces, and unusual. We are a nonprofit registered in Florida, and our 501(c)(3) status is pending with the IRS.

Our publications highlight unexpected and wonderful places. We champion voices that might otherwise remain shadowed. We love work about the homes we make, wherever that might be, in the people we know, the homes we have made, the music we love, in the friends we make family. We are especially interested where creativity intersects with culture, be it cultural ancestry, skateboard culture, suburban culture, and everything in between. We champion Queer and BIPOC voices.

Send us your best poetry, flash, fiction, non-fiction, and your weird, passionate, hybrid babies. Poetry and prose together, prose and art, work we have never seen before, work we couldn’t imagine exists. Surprise us!

Masthead

Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the chapbook Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press) and the forthcoming poetry collection Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025). She is the winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize 2023 in poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize winner, and her work has appeared in Torch Literary Arts, Stone Coast Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Cutbank Literary Journal, among others. She founded Purple Ink Press with Erik Ebright. She teaches creative writing at Florida International University. She lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. https://linktr.ee/yaelwrites

Erik Ebright
Founding Editor
he/him

Erik Ebright is a UX designer and collaborative artist. He is inspired by better understanding of the world through information design. He loves to make interactive art books where the reader becomes a co-creator in the creative process. He has published several interactive art and travel books.

Sarah Buck
Associate Editor

Sarah Buck (she/her) is a writer and editor with degrees from Ursinus College and the University of Edinburgh. She worked for The Lantern literary magazine at Ursinus College from 2019 to 2022, earning the title of Editor in Chief for the 2021-22 academic year. Her favorite genres to write and to read are science fiction and fantasy, and she loves reading work with disability, neurodivergent, and queer representation. She currently lives in New Jersey. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting, reading, and overly analyzing every new superhero movie

Chrystalla Constantinou
Associate Editor/ Marketing Associate

Chrystalla Constantinou is a Greek Cypriot, currently a Business Administration student at IE University in Madrid, Spain. Beyond her studies, she has a passion for psychological novels, especially those that dive into the complexity of human thought and behavior.

Elm Friend
Associate Editor

Elm Friend is a queer writer and editor from Southwestern Pennsylvania currently residing in Northwestern Maryland. They have earned a BS in English Writing from Slippery Rock University and a Developmental Editing Certificate from the University of Washington. They previously worked for SLAB Literary Magazine as a Genre Editor and Assistant Managing Editor. They are often found crocheting, book-binding, and spending too much time yelling at deer to get off the road from their farmhouse window.

Gabriel Ferwalt
Editorial Intern

Originally from Kansas City, Gabriel Ferwalt is a senior at Florida Atlantic University, studying English with a concentration in Creative and Professional Writing (and a minor in Film/Media). His passion for storytelling emerged well before his first creative writing class, and he hasn’t stopped writing since. While he is the current Poetry and Audio Editor for his college’s literary magazine, Coastlines, he remains eager to learn as an intern at Purple Ink Press. In his spare time, he can be found strolling through museums, attending his horror book club in Wilton Manors, or writing poetry and fiction to the sounds of indie rock.

Michelangelo Franchini
Associate Editor

Michelangelo Franchini is an Italian author and translator. He is the founder and chief editor of The Rome Review. His short stories and translations have appeared in many Italian and English zines, such as Carmilla, Pastrengo Rivista, Serendipity Periodical, Isit Magazine, Neuro Logical, The Big Windows Review, Maudlin House, Sublunary Review, Okay Donkey, Fresh Words Magazine, Bat City Review, and Shoegaze.

Jaye
Associate Editor

Jaye is a Texas-based editor and a passionate advocate for cross-cultural storytelling. Her journey began with a Bachelor’s in East Asian Literature & Linguistics, which was followed by hands-on experience in the South Korea where she worked proofreading and editing Korean to English translations. She has dreams of publishing her own works one day, and enjoys learning languages and practicing yoga and meditation in her spare time. 

A.D. Kellerhals
Associate Editor 

A.D. Kellerhals is a writer, editor, and multi-disciplinary creative from DFW, Texas. He earned his BA in English from Texas Tech University, and MFA from Naropa University, and worked as fiction editor and co-lead editor for both of his previous universities’ presses respectively. He has had two poems published in Harbinger, and is currently seeking publication for a manuscript of poetry while finishing an experimental fiction novel. He’s most often found drooped over a guitar, and enjoys film photography, manga, and meditation.

Izzy Martins-Simonsen
Editorial Intern

Izzy Martins-Simonsen is an MA student of English Literature at FAU, specializing in Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Her thesis focuses on the way food creates connection points between reality and fantasy. They spend most of their time writing around their kitten, who likes to sleep on their keyboard. She also instructs English Composition as a graduate teaching assistant. They have worked on the university’s undergraduate literary magazine, and published two book reviews (so far). When she’s not engaging in food theory, she works on food practice (blowing up the kitchen to make brownies). 

Jennifer Maritza McCauley is a writer, poet, and university professor. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in prose, Kimbilio, CantoMundo, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She holds an MFA from Florida International University and a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Missouri. She is the author of the cross-genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, the short story collection When Trying to Return Home, the poetry collection KINDS OF GRACE (‘24), and the NEON STEEL (2/26). SCAR ON/SCAR OFF received an Independent Publishers Book Award in poetry, and her story collection When Trying to Return Home was an Editors’ Choice from The New York Times, a Must Read of 2023 by the Chicago Public Library, a best fiction book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Most-Anticipated by Today. You can find her at jennifermaritzamccauley.com

Jude Marr
Guest Editor

Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he liked the press so much that he now works with them as an editor. Jude’s work has also appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently Ghost City, Cutleaf, Reed Magazine, and Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices (Broken Sleep Books, 2023.) Born in the UK, Jude lived in the US for ten years and is now planning a move to Portugal in 2025. Contact Jude via his website, judemarr.com