Jessica Faust is coeditor and poetry editor of The Southern Review. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) and a PhD in English (literature). After teaching for many years, she joined The Southern Review as assistant editor in 2004. In 2011 she became the journal’s poetry editor.

Sacha Idell is coeditor and prose editor of The Southern Review. His original stories appear in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. His translations include work by the Japanese writers Kyūsaku Yumeno and Toshirō Sasaki. He has been prose editor of the journal since 2018.

Jalen Giovanni Jones is the editorial assistant for The Southern Review. His work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Workshop, the Tin House Workshop, and the Lambda Literary Retreat. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, Callaloo, The Offing, and elsewhere. He is a Black and Filipino writer from Los Angeles. You can find him at jalen-jones.com.