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.

Sara is a poet from Massachusetts. She works as a legal services immigration lawyer, specializing in cases related to unaccompanied child migrants and Afghans evacuated during the 2021 fall of government. Her work has appeared in journals in Sporklet, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Adroit Journal, and others. Sara is from a family of Iranian-Kashmiri refugees and has an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is a poetry editor at the Adroit Journal.

Shastri’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, published in the US by Macmillan and in India by Penguin, was named a most anticipated debut by Good Morning America, Poets & Writers, and Electric Literature, among others. It is a queer coming-of-age novel set in 199os India. His writing is or will be in Best American Short Fiction, Fairy Tale Review, Guernica, World Literature Review, and Masters Review, among others. He is the winner of the 2024 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the 2023 Best of MicroFiction Contest, and the 2022 Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Contest. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD. in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University.

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.

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.

Originally hailing from Portland, Oregon, Meghana is an Indian American writer whose work has been published in the Yale Review, the Boston Review, the Rumpus, Apogee, Pleiades, Passages North, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, and more. A 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow, Tin House Scholar and Pushcart Prize nominee, she has also received recognition from the Carolyn Moore Writers' Residency, the Adroit Journal’s Anthony Veasna So Scholarship, Bread Loaf, the de Groot Foundation, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference. You can find her at www.meghanamysore.com or on Twitter @MysoreMeghana.

Kalpana has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA from the University of Memphis. During her time at the University of Memphis, she taught fiction and read for the literary magazine The Pinch. She has attended the Tin House Workshop, Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Writing in Color Retreat, and the Kettle Pond Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Five Points, EVENT Poetry and Prose, and the University of Memphis Magazine, among other journals. Her work was longlisted for the Wigleaf top 50 in 2023.  Kalpana is Senior Editor at The Adroit Journal.