Managing Editor (poetry) Noriko Nakada is a member of the leadership team for Women Who Submit. A multi-racial Asian American, she creates fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art to capture the hidden stories she has been told not to talk about. Publications include her memoir series: Through Eyes Like Mine, Overdue Apologies, and I Tried. Through Eyes Like Mine was shortlisted for the 2040 Book Award. Excerpts, essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in Catapult, Meridian, Kartika, Hippocampus, and Rising Phoenix Review. She is on instagram @norikol. Noriko is represented by Emily Keyes of Keyes Agency.
Managing Editor (fiction and creative nonfiction) Ryane Nicole Granados is the Chapters Director for Women Who Submit. She is also a Los Angeles native whose writing finds its roots in her love of community and her belief that Black motherhood is an act of social justice. Recently named the 2021 Established Writer and Individual Arts Fellow by the California Arts Council, her work has been featured in various publications including Pangyrus, The Manifest-Station, The Nervous Breakdown, The Atticus Review, and LA Parent Magazine. Her storytelling has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and showcased in KPCC’s live series Unheard LA.
Fiction Editor Lorinda Toledo (she/her) has been an editor for Witness, Lunch Ticket, and Gathering: A Women Who Submit Anthology. Her novel-in-progress was named first runner-up for the 2019 James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Her stories have been published in the Mississippi Review, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was a Barrick Graduate Fellow and a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fellow; she holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and attended the Community of Writers Summer Fiction Workshop as an Ancinas Scholar.
Fiction Editor Erin Anadkat received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles and a B.S. in News-Editorial Journalism from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is working on her first novel, which is about the manufacturing of culture, psychology of mixed-race identity, and self-created mythologies. Erin has attended workshops at Lighthouse, Community of Writers, and Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. She is co-founder of a social media agency/production company in Los Angeles, kissd, working with brands including Honda, Acura, and American Express.
Creative Nonfiction Editor Flint is a queer writer with a keen interest in hybridity, generative genre tampering and upsetting the applecart of heteronormative discourse about sex/uality. A 2022 Lambda Literary Nonfiction Fellow, Flint earned an MFA in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at CalArts, and her work has appeared in Arts & Letters (Unclassifiable Contest winner), Erotic Review, NAILED Magazine, and Staging Social Justice (Southern Illinois University Press), among other publications and anthologies.
Creative Nonfiction Editor Laura Sturza is co-host of the WWS Saturday check-in. She is a writer/teacher living in Rockville, Maryland, after 20 years in L.A. — her other home. Her creative nonfiction is published in The LA Times, Lunch Ticket, The Washington Post, and Shondaland, among others. She wrote, produced, and starred in the one-woman show, Finding the Perfect Place to Live in 111 Gyrations. Laura is completing the memoir, The Adventures of an Almost 50, Never Married, Wannabe-Wife. She was a graduate advisor at the University of Southern California and received an MA in Communications/Writing/Theatre from George Mason University.
Poetry Editor Hazel Kight Witham is a mother, writer, teacher, slam coach, and artist who leads workshops on building a sustainable teaching practice. Her poetry, memoir, fiction, and interviews can be found in The Sun, Bellevue Literary Review, Made in L.A. Vol.4, Mutha Magazine, Integrated Schools, United Teacher, Cultural Weekly, and Rising Phoenix Review. Hazel’s work explores issues of wellness, mental health, healing, social justice and peace-making. She earned a BA from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and has been a proud member of Women Who Submit since 2016.
Poetry Editor Luivette Resto is on the Board for Women Who Submit. She is an award-winning poet, a mother of three revolutionary humans, a Wonder Woman fan, and a middle school English teacher. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tía Chucha Press. Her third poetry collection Living on Islands Not Found on Maps, published by FlowerSong Press, won silver for the 2022 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award at the International Latino Book Awards.
Poetry Editor Aruni Wijesinghe joined Women Who Submit in 2018. She is a project manager, ESL teacher, erstwhile belly dance instructor and occasional sous chef. She holds a BA in English, an AA in dance, and a certification in TESOL. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has been published both nationally and internationally. Her debut collection, 2 Revere Place, is a love letter to her family and miraculous childhood in New York. Her latest collection, The Litany of Missing, is a meditation on loss, longing and love.
Drama Editor Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley (she/her/ella) is the Chapters Liaison for Women Who Submit and Long Beach, CA Chapter Lead. She creates engaging stories for and about bilingual, bicultural brown girls and women. Her writing is featured in The Latinx Project at NYU and HarperVia’s Somewhere We Are Human edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House, Macondo and VONA. Her film, The Big Deal, won the Imagen Award for Best Theatrical Short and was screened at festivals throughout the US. A Dominicana via Washington Heights, she lives in Long Beach, CA with her husband and two children.
Advising Editor Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera (she/her) is the Website Manager for Women Who Submit. She has presented on submission strategies at Macondo Writers Workshop and the Latina Writers Conference. She was an editor for Border Senses, VIDA Review, and Ricochet Editions. Her play Blind Thrust Fault was featured in Center Theater Group Writers’ Workshop Turning the Page Festival. Her debut YA novel Breaking Pattern is forthcoming with Inlandia Books. A former high school teacher, she earned an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.