Janaka Stucky
Publisher
janaka (at) blackocean.org

Janaka is practicing the perfection of effort while joyfully participating in the sorrows of the world. He is also the author of several poetry collections, most recently Ascend Ascend (2019). He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty.

Carrie O. Adams
Poetry Editor
carrie (at) blackocean.org

Carrie Adams lives in Chicago with her husband and two cats. She is the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press and the poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her books include Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks “Proficiency Badges,” “Grapple,” “Overture in the Key of F,” and “A Useless Window.” When she’s not making poems, she’s making biscuits.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Editor-at-Large
lillian-yvonne (at) blackocean.org

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of five books, most recently Travesty Generator (Noemi Press 2019). When they aren't on "woodsy fitness marches", they are using computation to program poetry machines. 

Jake Levine
Series Editor, The Moon Country Korean Poetry Series
jake (at) blackocean.org

Jake writes and edits and writes in translation, always in collaboration with others, both living and dead. He is a founding member of the Vilnius Bagel Project, a former poetry editor at Spork Press, a Fulbright scholar, and ghost-translates K-pop. In 2020 his co-translation of Kim Yideum's Hysteria won the National Translation Award and the Lucien Stryk Prize. He teaches at Keimyung University.

Lily Nilipour
Series Reader, Undercurrents

Lily is Marketing Assistant at Harvard University Press and an Associate Poetry Editor for Narrative. She recently graduated from Stanford University, where she spent years of her life she will never get back counting punctuation marks in Virginia Woolf's novels.