Editors
Gina Pugliese
Co-Founder
I have written award-winning arts journalism for Southwest Contemporary and served in editorial capacities for DARIA Art Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review, and the Santa Fe Writers Project. In 2026, I co-founded The Good Light Editors.
My specialties include identifying a work's main idea and target audience, offering direct and honest feedback to focus and elevate the work. I help writers deepen their research and concepts; pinpoint the central claim; achieve clarity, concision, and continuity; develop a brand and social media presence; and pursue publication.
Drawing from years of experience as a higher education specialist, I also provide thesis and dissertation editing, college application feedback, and biography development and ghostwriting.
In my private life, I dote on my cat to an embarrassing extent, partake in the bitter disappointments and small triumphs of desert gardening, and get my money's worth from my Criterion film-streaming service.
Find a list of books I have edited.
You can also learn more about me from my website, subscribe to my Substack, or follow my IG, @gina.yo.gina.
I look forward to cheerleading your vision, amplifying your voice, and getting your writing out into the world!
Gina offers complimentary 15-minute consultations. Email her to schedule a call and discuss your project.
Austin
Eichelberger
Co-Founder
Starting with a gay sex poem published in secret when I was sixteen, over eighty pieces of my fiction, poetry, and memoir have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Cleaver, escarp, The Tishman Review, Gone Lawn, Cease, Cows and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. I won Fictionade Magazine's 2012 250-Word Short Story Contest, was awarded fourth place in the 2016 Larry Brown Short Story Award by Pithead Chapel, attended Tin House for Fiction in 2020, and I was longlisted for the Flash Fiction Open Contest by Fractured Lit in 2023. I've also had journalism and book reviews published, and I've sold handmade chapbooks of my writing at art shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Originally from Virginia's Blue Ridge Valley, I completed my MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in 2018. I have taught English, creative writing, and technical writing, as well as courses in marketing, for over 15 years at the college level. I've worked at universities, private colleges, religious colleges, community colleges, and I've taught dual-enrollment classes for high school students, granting me a wide range of experiences that inform every interaction I have with my diverse clients. I aim to be sensitive about all my clients' projects, and approach new perspectives and information with curiosity before judgement.
I served as Managing Editor for Briery Creek Press for 2008 and 2009, where I edited, designed, and marketed The Dos Passos Review and the winning manuscripts for The Liam Rector Chapbook Prize for Poetry. I have since served as an editor on several literary magazines, most notably as Fiction Editor for the Santa Fe Literary Review since 2017, which I am still proud to do. I have also served as a writing coach, tutor, literary event coordinator, bookseller, and director of community workshop programs for creative writing. I currently teach in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I also make visual art and host the free online reading series The Writing Generation.
You can see some of my published writing on my website, austineichelberger.com. You can also follow me on Instagram @austinsively.
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Maggie Grimason
Co-founder
Her creative work has appeared in Ploughshares, 1905 Magazine, and more. Her science writing has been published in Undark at MIT and The Center for Biological Diversity. Her arts writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Playboy, Hyperallergic, Paste Magazine, and The Independent. She has contributed work to exhibition catalogs for galleries and museums from Santa Fe to Berlin. In 2019, she edited a collection of essays to mark the 40th anniversary of the City of Albuquerque's Public Art Program. She has also edited books for the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Institute for American Indian Arts' Museum of Contemporary Native Art. She has ghostwritten articles that appeared in TechCrunch and Forbes, and has worked with many data storage and transformation companies in a technical capacity.
She was previously the managing editor at Santa Fe-based arts journal Southwest Contemporary, the arts & literature editor at Albuquerque's alt weekly, the Alibi, and co-editor of nature writing journal Slow Death on Saddleback. She currently serves on the Industry and Academic Advisory Team for the University of New Mexico's Technical and Professional Writing Program. In 2022, she received an Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Grant to support her creative nonfiction; she is currently writing a social history of a life in subculture with the working title A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.
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Steve Jansen
Co-founder
In 2019 and 2020, his acclaimed six-part, 30 story series on the New Mexico foster care and child welfare systems for Youth Today was also published by the Santa Fe New Mexican, Las Cruces Sun-News, Carlsbad Current-Argus and Gallup Independent. In 2013, his investigation into two crumbling dams in Houston was awarded first place for Best Print News/Feature Story in the Texas statewide Lone Star Awards competition. He's a former staff writer for Phoenix New Times and Houston Press, and the previous news editor for Southwest Contemporary. Steve has also contributed reporting to the New York Times and freelanced for Searchlight New Mexico.
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