Lisa Miller is the Publisher and Managing Editor. She has worked at Amphorae Publishing for the past 11 years in various roles. Other work includes Director of Strategic Communications, Knowledge Manager, Corporate Communications Lead, and Assistant Professor of English. She has an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. She retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army Reserve in 2017.

Alyssa Harris is our Acquisitions Editor and Digital Strategist. She is a recent grad in creative writing, an executive assistant, and has been published twice in her favorite student literary magazine, Journey of Southeast Missouri State University. When she isn’t staring at her endless WIPs or turning the other cheek to the blank page, she’s trying new recipes, steeping tea, or sending snail-mail letters to her friends. Alyssa is from Illinois, but dreams of Missouri river towns.

Allison Macdonald (she/her) is our Administrative Assistant. She received her BA in Linguistics and English Literature from Northwestern University in 2023. During her studies, she researched the cognitive processes involved in language production, as well as serving as Managing Editor for the Northwestern publication Scene + Heard. A Colorado native, in her free time Allison enjoys hiking, biking, and frisbee golf.

Grace Rook is an Editorial Intern. She is a current undergraduate in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she serves as the Head Copyeditor for the Phoenix Magazine. She loves cats, mountains, and novelty coffee mugs.

Gayle Dy is an Editorial intern. She is also a Masters student based in Glasgow pursuing Children’s Literature and Literacies. She adores picture books and believes deeply in the power of stories to create positive change in the world. She hopes to one day become an editor and champion stories that center underrepresented voices and inspire people to become lifelong readers.

Carrie Cheng is an Editorial Intern, interested in all things in the creative field. As a recent grad in creative writing and publishing, they hope to help others with their writing and grow people’s voices to share stories that need to be told. 

Jess Burtis is a Marketing Intern. Aside from this, she can usually be found with a book in her hands. She studied Creative Writing and Literature at Appalachian State University, then ventured to Trinity College Dublin to complete a master’s in literature. Since then, she has interviewed authors on international radio, and her book reviews – usually about something Gothic – have appeared in Southern Literary Review. While Jess is usually working on copious amounts of book ideas, she also volunteers for Carolina Waterfowl Rescue and discusses sci-fi movies on the Resonance Rewind podcast. Born and raised in North Carolina, she now lives in New Jersey and haunts the libraries there.

Simon Andrews is an Editorial Intern. He earned his B.A. in creative writing in 2025 from the University of Central Arkansas, where he worked as the fiction editor for Vortex, UCA’s undergraduate magazine. His work has appeared three times in the Vortex and most recently in The L.A. Review of Books’s PubLab. While he reads and writes in multiple genres, he is especially passionate about horror, science fiction, and fantasy. When not writing or reading, he can likely be found playing a video game with his fiancé.