Meet the Team
Editors
AA Tojino- Managing Editor, Editor-In-Chief
A.A. Tojino (he/they) is super into eels, oxtail soup, cigarettes, and Cortezs with big toe-boxes because he has wide feet.
Emily TahaBurt- Poetry EditorÂ
Emily TahaBurt (she/her) is a writer attending the University of Miami as a James Michener fellow. She is delighted to be working alongside her classmates at Sinking City.
Mayumi Roberts- Hybrid Editor
Mayumi (she/her) is a Japanese-American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is an exploration of girlhood, mixed-race identity, intergenerational trauma, isolation, and transformation.
Gianella Rojas- Fiction Editor
Gianella, or Gia Rojas (she/they) is a first generation queer Peruvian-American writer born and raised in Miami, Florida. Through stories blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction, they aim to share the magic, and violence, that they’ve seen in their world.
Readers
Kyler Johnson is a Midwestern writer currently in the University of Miami's MFA program for Poetry. A Fulbright recipient and Critical Language Scholar, he focuses his writing often on the intersection of different natures, languages, spaces, and times.
Komal Singh is a fiction writer from New Delhi, India. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. She's currently getting a second MFA at the University of Miami.
Arlene Opio (she/her) is a first-generation and first-year MFA student. A no sabo Puerto Rican and twenty something young woman, her
work explores the intersections of diasporic Latinidad, class, and technology as they impact interpersonal, but especially romantic, relationships in the modern world.
Evan Wambeke is a poet from Cody, Wyoming. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A at the University of Miami where, from time to time, he goes to The Light to watch the Hurricanes play.
Sean Faletti (he/him) is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Miami. Sean’s work engages with popular culture, memory, and surrealism. He is working on his first poetry manuscript.
Mariela Flores is a first-generation, low-income, and queer, writer from Central Falls, Rhode Island. Raised by Central America immigrants, she hopes to write her way out of generational curses and make her parents proud. Her writing is an ode to her beloved one-square mile city, girlhood, and Latinidad.
Social Media Manager
Amara Evering's work is rooted in her identity as a D.C. native and her Jamaican and Gullah lineage. She prioritizes activism, faith, and untold histories in her writing. She holds a degree in Creative Writing and Sociology from Emory University.
Faculty Advisor
AJ Bermudez is an award-winning author and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and New York. In addition to writing and filmmaking, Bermudez is also a former boxer and EMT, and her work gravitates toward contemporary explorations of power, privilege, and place.
Founding Editors: Mario Alejandro Ariza, Dana de Greff, Jennifer Geisenberger-Sayed, Savonna Johnson, Ben Kingsley, Jon Lampe, Brittany Lyons, Emma Rosenberg, Chioma Urama, & Matthew Nerger.
Former Managing Editor Fellows: Brittany Lyons, Mario Alejandro Ariza, Stephanie Lane Sutton, Maeve Holler, Clayre BenzadĂłn, Amanda Lamadrid, Megan Ritchie and Swetha Siva.