Founding Editor Ira Sukrungruang is the author of Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and Southside Buddhist (memoirs), In Thailand It is Night (poetry), The Melting Season (stories), This Jade World, and co-editor of the fat books What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. His favorite candy is anything that has sour-sucking power and unhinges his jaw because of extreme gumminess.

Founding Editor Katherine Riegel –who goes by Katie–is the author most recently of the poetry collection Love Songs from the End of the World. She runs online classes for poets and creative nonfiction writers, writes for The Gloria Sirens, and is working on a hybrid/collage memoir about her late sister.

Founding editor K.C. Wolfe earned his MFA at an institution in the Midwest, after considerable layovers in the Western parts of these United States. His essays and short stories have been seen in Gulf Coast, The Sun, Swink, Harvard Review, Redivider, Prime Number, Under the Sun, Cleaver Magazine and other publications. He lives, on average, in St. Petersburg, FL.

Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her second poetry collection, Through a Small Ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2020). Her third collection entitled, I, Divided, is forthcoming from (Louisiana University Press, 2023). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018). Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.

Robert Annis received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He was nominated for the 2013 and 2014 AWP Intro Journals Project, and won the Bettye Newman Poetry Award in 2014, and the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize in 2015. His poetry has appeared in Exit 7, American Tanka, Foothill, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and the Noctua Review.

Ryan Cheng received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida. He was awarded the 2013 AWP Intro Journal Entry Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Tampa, Florida where he teaches professional and technical writing at the University of South Florida. When he's not teaching, he's chasing a toddler and a dog around the backyard hoping to get dim sum soon.

Currently residing in Columbus, Ohio, Sam Risak received her MFA from Chapman University and is an alum of the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop. The former editor for Interviews & Essays at CRAFT Literary, she is an editorial assistant for TAB: The Journal in Poetry & Poetics and has work published or forthcoming in The Sun Magazine, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. A lover of spicy foods, she has a little bit of an ego about how much heat she can take.

Elijah Manning will receive his BA in English from Kenyon College in the Spring of 2023. His work can be found in HIKA, Sweet, and River River Literary Magazine. Elijah grew up in Rockland County, his backyard running along the border between New York and New Jersey. He enjoys playing Trombone, Piano, and Guitar with his four-man band, The Moms.

Zachary Lundgren received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida and his BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and grew up in northern Virginia. He has had poetry published in several literary journals and magazines including The Louisville Review, The Portland Review, Barnstorm Journal, The Adirondack Review, and the University of Colorado Honors Journal.

Nikki Lyssy is an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida, where she studies creative nonfiction. She has work published in Hobart, Essay Daily, and Sweet, and is currently writing a memoir about her experiences growing up completely blind. When she is not reading or writing, she can be found enjoying the Florida sunshine and a cup of coffee.

Jessica Watson lives in Tampa, Florida where she’s finishing her MFA at the University of South Florida. She’s a nurse and musician with a B.S. in Ecology and a B.S. in Nursing. She’s worked as a high school science teacher, for the DEP, ecology research assistant, and most recently critical care nurse. She loves science and creative writing equally and won’t give either of them up. Her obsessions include being human, guitars, and wildlife. You can find her words in Speculative Nonfiction, Sweet, and Mud Season Review.

Catherine Jones has a BA in Film and English from Kenyon College, where she spent three years as an associate for the Kenyon Review. When she's not binging new poetry collections, Catherine teaches reading, writing, and claymation. Despite her better judgment, her favorite confectionary is Wax-bottle-candy.

Ella Neely grew up in Indiana and is currently a first-year student at Kenyon College studying English and Spanish. She is a Kenyon Review associate who also enjoys dancing and volunteering at a nearby school. She has a particular love for homemade cupcakes, but will happily accept many other treats.

Although a Colorado native, Deedra graduated from the University of South Carolina-Aiken with a BS in Business Administration and from the University of South Florida with a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology. Currently, she is the Assistant Director for the Office of Sponsored Faculty Projects at Kenyon College. She joined Sweet as a jack of all trades, including finances, typesetting, chapbook making, social media, website design, and cat wrangling (editors). Her claim to fame is being mommy to Bodhi, the unofficial Sweet mascot.

Andy graduated The University of Salford with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering when programs were written on punch cards. Andy is a Flight Simulator Engineer during the day working on Sweet in his fun time. The second best Sweet going is frozen McVities HobNobs dunked in a good cup of tea. Taylor’s of Harrogate – Yorkshire Tea of course, not as though there is any other.

Nicholas Brown graduated from Auburn University with a B.A. in English. Since graduating, he has worked as a door-to-door salesman and middle school teacher before pursuing his MFA in fiction at The University of South Florida. He enjoys coffee, Tiramisu, assorted deli meats, and creating hand-made furniture with the help of drills and large saws, which he’s found makes the process infinitely easier.