Harpur Palate is made possible by the uncompensated labor of graduate students in Binghamton University’s Department of English. Meet our current staff:
Alycia Calvert
Editor in Chief
Alycia Calvert (Editor-in-Chief) Alycia Calvert is a neurodivergent emerging writer and translator. She is working on her PhD at SUNY Bing. She graduated with her MFA in Fiction CW from UNLV in 2022. She was recently shortlisted for the Writer’s Rebel Flash Fiction Competition, and her stories have appeared in The Hunger Journal, Banshee Journal, Pyre Magazine, Hecate and elsewhere. Her lush little stories blur the line between poetry and fiction and always have a speculative bent. You can find her work at https://alyciacalvert.wixsite.com/alyciacalvertwriter
Shannon Hearn
Managing Editor
Shannon Hearn is a writer and teacher based in Binghamton and Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the chapbook tracing circles in dirt (Bottlecap Press, 2021). A PhD student in poetry at Binghamton University, their other work can be found with Action, Spectacle, cream city review, Voicemail Poems, dialogist, Big Lucks, alocasia, and others.
Suzanne Richardson
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Suzanne Richardson earned her M.F.A. in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Binghamton, New York where she’s a Ph.D. student in creative writing at SUNY Binghamton. She is working on a memoir, Throw it Up, and a full poetry collection, The Want Monster which was recently named a finalist for the Saturnalia Press Book Awards. She is the current nonfiction editor for Harpur Palate. Her nonfiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, New Haven Review, Rejection Lit, and No Contact Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, and DIALOGIST. Her fiction has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Front Porch, and High Desert Journal. More about Suzanne and her writing can be found here: https://www-
Lena Gemmer
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Lena N. Gemmer (Co- Creative Nonfiction Editor) is a multimedia artist originally from the quiet foggy town of Montara CA. She received her BA in English and History from Allegheny College in Meadville PA, and her MFA in Writing from University of New Hampshire. Her work has been published in Wild Roof Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, The Bangalore Review, among others. When she is not in graduate school pursuing a PhD in English CW at SUNY Binghamton, you can find her taking photographs or scolding her Norwegian Forest cat Mitchy
Sam Corradetti
Fiction Co-Editor
Sam Corradetti received an MFA from Temple University and is currently a second-year doctoral candidate and Clark fellow at SUNY Binghamton. Their work has been supported by The Fabulist, Fourteen Hills, the Rin Kelly scholarship for speculative fiction, the BookEnds fellowship, and others.
Jesse Gilleland
Fiction Co-Editor
Jesse Gilleland is a queer writer and artist currently living in Binghamton, NY where they are, allegedly, a PhD student. They received a BA in creative writing in 2020 and an MA in English literature in 2022 from the University of South Florida. Their writing can be found in their phone’s notes app, scribbled on the backs of ancient manuscripts, at the bottom of various rivers, and, occasionally, on fire.Co-
Jordan Franklin
Poetry Co-Editor
Jordan E. Franklin is a poet, Clark fellow, and second-year doctoral student from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook University where she served as a Turner fellow. Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and a finalist of the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize.
Ella Flores
Poetry Co-Editor
Ella Flores received an MFA from Northern Michigan University and has had poems appear in Nimrod, South Carolina Review, Summerset Review, and others.
Lisa Compo
Social Media Manager
Lisa Compo has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Colorado Review, EPOCH, Arts & Letters, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program and obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro. She has received several nominations for the Pushcart award and Best of the Net.