Peter founded Ellipsis in 2019. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such venues as AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and Tin House, among many others. Peter graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. in English and Consumer Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and obtained his M.F.A in Creative Writing from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Numerous students of his have been recognized through the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Student Poets Program, the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, Princeton University, the Davidson Fellows Program, the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program, TASP, the Coke Scholars Program, the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Program, the GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program, and the Bryan Cameron Scholars Program. They’ve been featured at the White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the New York City Poetry Festival, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and by BBC News, the Boston Globe, Disney Channel, Teen Vogue, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his role as founder and CEO of Ellipsis, Peter is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal.

Matthew holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in English & Creative Writing from Emory University, as well as an M.F.A in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer with over seven years of editorial experience. As a former undergraduate instructor at the University of Michigan, a graduate coach at InGenius Prep, and a freelance essay tutor for many years, he knows the ins and outs of elite college admissions. He brings his own academic, liberal arts-fueled exploration and experimentation to his work helping students shape their applications.

His clients have been accepted to Yale University, Northwestern University, Swarthmore College, Tufts University, Emory University, Ohio State (Law School), and other top colleges.

Matthew is also an acclaimed poet with writing appearing in nationally recognized magazines like The Kenyon Review, The Spectacle, & Change, Court Green, and Frozen Sea, which nominated him for the Pushcart Prize. At the University of Michigan, he won multiple Hopwood Awards judged by acclaimed poets, including National Book Award winners. He has also received recognition from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and more.

Stephanie is a poet, editor, and independent curator from Vancouver, Canada. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Waxwing, Berkeley Poetry Review, Penn Review, The Offing, and WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023), among others. She is the author of the chapbook SAINTLESS (Sunset Press, 2022) and Night Market in Technicolor (Ghost City Press, 2020).

She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of the UK, League of Canadian Poets, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Anthony Quinn Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, and more. In high school, she won three Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Flash Fiction and was the runner-up for The Kenyon Review’s 2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, judged by Richie Hofmann.

Her poem, “Lotus Flower Kingdom,” won the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips. It was selected for inclusion in the Best of the Net 2023, awarded a 2023 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and has been taught at both the high school and collegiate level. 

She has worked as an Associate for The Kenyon Review, an Editorial Intern for Sundress Publications, and a Junior Editor at Sine Theta Magazine. She has also served as a National Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and a poetry mentor for the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. She recently obtained her B.A. in Art History and English from Kenyon College, where she received the $60,000 S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, the Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize (Best Short Fiction), and the George B. Ogden Award (Best Essay in English Prose).

Sara is a poet, journalist and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Elkamel's poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal, the winner of Redivider's 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, Tinderbox's 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize. Elkamel’s debut chapbook, “Field of No Justice,” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021.

Aidan is a poet and teacher from Greenville, South Carolina. They graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. At Brown, they won numerous Literary Arts prizes and served as a Social Science and Humanities Presidential Scholar. They are the author of the chapbook Exit Pastoral (YesYes Books, 2019) and their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Tin House, and Washington Square Review, among others.

As a teen writer, they received 7 Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Fiction, as well as a Best in Grade Award for Poetry and a nomination for the National Student Poet designation. They were also a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Winner with Distinction in Creative Nonfiction and Winner in Poetry. As a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Aidan performed their poetry at the Kennedy Center and received the inaugural Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award. They’ve been recognized by the Adroit Journal’s Adroit Prizes and Djanikian Scholars opportunities, the Poetry Society of America, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards, Copper Nickel, Bennington Young Writers Awards, Princeton University’s Leonard Milberg Prize, and more.

Aidan has worked as an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press, as a poetry staff reader and poetry mentor for the Adroit Journal, and as a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine. High school writers who have worked with Aidan have achieved recognition through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and more. Aidan has taught for five consecutive summers at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities’ creative writing programs, and (when they aren’t working on their next manuscript!) they work as a Specialty Patient Innovation Analyst for CVS Health. 

Lisa is the author of Afterfeast, which was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Dorset Prize in Poetry. She holds degrees from Boston University and Harvard University. Her work has appeared in Lambda Literary, The Common, and Kenyon Review, and has been honored with the AWP Kurt Brown Prize. She is Poetry Editor of The Adroit Journal and a 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Best-in-Grade Educator. She is the Founder and Co-Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library.

Michelle is a prose writer, playwright, and professor from Los Angeles. She published her debut novel, Glass Shatters, with She Writes Press in 2016, which was selected as an Editor’s Pick in Literary Fiction by Foreword Reviews and a finalist in Literary Fiction by the USA Best Book Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Adroit Journal, Juked, and Atticus Review, among others, and she has received honors from Glimmer Train, Wigleaf, and Ploughshares.

Meyers was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She received a B.A. in Literary Arts and Writing for Performance from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Currently, Meyers is a professor in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California.

Mai is the author of I Can Imagine it For Us, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize and forthcoming with AUC Press in 2025 and CAIRO: the undelivered letters, winner of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Award and forthcoming with Diwan Publishing also in 2025. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming with Michigan Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford's creative writing program. Visit www.maiserhan.com for more on her work.

Erick is the author of Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021) and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, the Harvard Review, Literary Matters, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Massachusetts Review, the Oxford Review of Books, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Florida and lives in Salt Lake City.

Michelle is a poet, fiction writer and teacher living outside Philadelphia. Taransky teaches creative writing and critical writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she won a Beltran Award for Innovative Teaching and Mentoring. 

She is the author of the poetry books Barn Burned, Then, selected by Marjorie Welish for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, and Sorry Was in the Woods, published by Omnidawn in 2013. She is also author of a poetry chapbook, Abramowitz-Goldberg (Factory Hollow Press, 2020). Taransky’s poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, and Huffington Post, among others.

At Penn, she is a Contributing Editor for Jacket2, after serving as Reviews Editor from 2011-2024, and teaches Fiction and Nonfiction in the Master of Liberal Arts Program. Since 2009, she has hosted a reading series at Kelly Writers House, “But Company,” which pairs student writers with visiting authors. Previously, Taransky has taught writing at the University of Iowa, where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, as well as Temple University, the Iowa Young Writers Studio, the University of the Arts, and Kelly Writers House’s Summer Workshop for Young Writers. She has worked as Programs Coordinator at The Poetry Center of Chicago, a research assistant at the University of Iowa International Writing Program, and the Assistant to the Director at the Kelly Writers House.