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Elle Newton

Editor-in-Chief

Elle Newton is a founding editor of Poets Reading the News. She is a writer, designer and cultural producer based in San Francisco, California. Her writing, advocacy and criticism has appeared in print, online, and on national radio such as NPR and KPFA, and been adapted for the stage. She has been featured on panels at AWP, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Cal State University and Vermont’s Green Mountain Writers Retreat. She teaches workshops on writing and publishing across the country. Newton has had the privilege of mentoring dozens of emergent editors in the art and practice of editing and publishing. Write to her here.

Kashiana Singh

Managing Editor

When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Widely published and anthologized, Kashiana has authored two full-length collections and a chapbook. Woman by the Door was released by Apprentice House Press in 2022. Witching Hour is being released in 2024 with Glass Lyre Press. Kashiana is also a senior executive in the healthcare industry and is reputed for her intentional leadership and perseverance anchored in a culture of inclusivity and empowerment. She proudly carries her various geo-political homes across India and the United States within her poetry. 

Michel Krug

Managing Editor

Michel Krug’s collection, Jazz at the International Festival of Despair, is scheduled for publication by Broadstone Books, in the spring, 2024. 

He is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and he litigates. 

His poems have appeared in Evening Street Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Jerry Jazz, St. Paul Almanac, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, New Verse News, JMWW, Cagibi, Silver Blade, Crack the Spine, Dash, Mikrokosmos, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclectica, Writers Resist, Sheepshead, Ginosko, Door Is A Jar, Raven’s Perch, Main Street Rag and others.

Nikki Ikani

Managing Editor

Nikki Ikani is a political scientist at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her academic work centers on political change, its forms and its challenges. She’s also intrigued by warning signs and tipping points, and the way they may succeed one another to produce deep and lasting changes in international relations. Nikki writes poetry and short stories on very similar themes of continuity and change. Some of her poems have appeared in M58, Dog Ear, and the Cobalt Review.