Zona Motel
Zona Motel, Katie Bennett, Mallory Smart, Kristen Felicetti, Brittany Ackerman, August Lamm, Nikki Volpicelli, Emma Burger, greta, Niina Pollari, Elinor Abbott, Jimmy, Barrie Miskin, Cora Lee, Megan Boyle, Charlene Elsby, Libby Marchant, Juliet Escoria, Ivan Genc, Dasha Sikmashvili, Dalton Monk, lake markham, Andrew Duncan Worthington, Lucy K Shaw, Andy Anderegg, Tobias Carroll, Claire Donato, Francesca Kritikos, Oscar d'Artois, elle nash, Chris Oxley, R. Wang, Ken Baumann, Stephen Mortland, luke goebel, Mesha Maren, Dmitry Samarov, Mia Risher, Kayla Jean, Allie Rowbottom, Sebastian Castillo, Brian Allen Carr, Catherine Foulkrod, Sam Heaps, Sarah Edwards, Katie Coleman, Khaholi Bailey, Graham Irvin, Scott McClanahan, Joseph Grantham, mariah barden jones, Izzy Casey, Katherine Faw, Laura Albert, Taylor Lewandowski, Josh Boardman, Caleb Bouchard, Tracy Dimond, mackenzie crosson, Anna Mebel, Matt Randal O’Wain, Jillian Luft, Grant Gerald Miller, Raegan BirdZona Motel is a web space and Brotherhood that exists to support good literature.
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Zona Motel is a brotherhood and web space that exists to support good literature.
writer in west philly ☆ contributing editor @ Zona Motel
THE ONLY LIVING GIRL IN CHICAGO• Editor-in-Chief @MaudlinHouse \ud83d\udcda • Person who talks about music @PodHealing \ud83c\udfa7 • Horror movies @horrorpod666 \ud83c\udfa5
Head of Support at Substack. Author of the novel LOG OFF (Shabby Doll House, 2024)
Brittany Ackerman is the author of The Perpetual Motion Machine and The Brittanys. She has a forthcoming novel called with CLASH Books called The Style of Your Life. She does not like elevators and prefers to take the stairs.
Writer, painter, and anti-tech activist in New York City.
Nikki Volpicelli is writer, reader, and contributing editor @ Zona Motel.
Emma Burger is the author of two novels, Little Rich Kids (2025) and Spaghetti for Starving Girls (2021). You can find her work in Hobart, Write or Die Magazine, and X-R-A-Y Lit. She is an essays editor at Zona Motel.
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Poet. Author of the books Path of Totality and Dead Horse. Contributing editor (Reviews) for Zona Motel.
Aren’t I a human being? Don’t I yearn and ache…and shop? Don’t I deserve love…and jewellery? | Contributing Editor at Zona Motel | Aesthetic Services at https://elinorabbott.carrd.co/
I'm from Mississippi but I don't live there right now.
Barrie Miskin is the author of the memoir Hell Gate Bridge. She lives in Queens, NY with her family and you can find more of her writing at barriemiskin.com.
Born and raised in San Diego, CA.
Sub on my stack
Charlene Elsby wrote Hexis, Affect, Psychros, Agyny, Musos, Letters to Jenny Just After She Died, and Bedlam. Her essays have appeared in Bustle Books and the LA Review of Books.
Local journalist, global scoundrel. I write about art, socialism and other things I think we need more of.
hello my name is juliet escoria and I am an Editor-in-Chief at Zona Motel! I also wrote these books: You Are the Snake (Soft Skull, 2024), Witch Hunt & Black Cloud (CLASH, 2023), and Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, 2019).
I'm just some guy—running socials for ZONA MOTEL! \ud83d\udc10 Catch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zona.motel/ 〇 read my poetry published in SPECTRA: https://spectrapoets.org/JAMAIS-VU-by-Ivan-Genc 〇
Fiction and Essays / Zona Motel Interview Editor
writer and photographer based in chicago, il. novel Lo Siento out with Apocalypse Confidential on 10/21
contributing editor for Zona Motel. http://www.andrewduncanworthington.com/
Editor at Shabby Doll House and Zona Motel
ANDY ANDEREGG lives in so-called Los Angeles. She co-founded Making Art at the End of the World, new editions at the end of every month. She is an Editor at Zona Motel and her debut novel PLUM from Hub City Press is out now.
Author of five books, most recently the novel IN THE SIGHT.
Run your fingers over the surface of your life to make sure it's still there.
editor-in-chief of SARKA, a journal & publisher focused on works of the flesh
I'm a Franco-American writer, translator, and ex-yoga teacher. I wrote Teen Surf Goth (Metatron, 2015) and The Island (Shabby Doll House, 2024)
Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press & Verve Books, 2023), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022) and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books & 404 Ink), and the short story collection Nudes (404 Ink).
I live in Charleston, West Virginia, and try to maintain a creative life, personally and professionally. I'm also a contributing editor at Zona Motel.
Ken Baumann is a writer who lives in New Mexico. https://kenbaumann.com
A fiction writer, usually.
Your brother from another planet.
Co-editor-in-chief of Zona Motel and Hub City Shorts. I also write novels and other things
Painter and writer in Chicago. dmitrysamarov.com
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Kayla Jean Murphy is from Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Blue Arrangements, and elsewhere. You can find her at kaylamjean.wordpress.com.
Author of AESTHETICA and JELL-O GIRLS; my new novel, LOVERS XXX, is coming early 2026 in the US and UK. I co-edit the DISPATCHES column for Zona Motel.
Sebastian Castillo is the author of Fresh, Green Life, SALMON, and other books. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.
Books: Opioid, Indiana / Bad Foundations / Motherfucking Sharks, etc. Aspen Words Finalist. Wonderland Book Award (x2), Texas Observer Story Prize Essays in Zona Motel, Hobart, The Rumpus Stories in Granta, Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s etc
Writer. Novel: DON'T CURE ME (forthcoming from McSweeney's Books), Reviews Editor at Zona Motel, Board at The DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts.
Philadelphian, author of The Living god and Proximity
Writer, reader, teacher, expat. Contributing editor @zonamotel.
Dispatch Editor at Zona Motel. Graham Irvin lives in Philadelphia. He is originally from North Carolina. He is the author of Liver Mush and I Have a Gun.
Author of the poetry collections Tom Sawyer (CCM Press) and Raking Leaves (Holler Presents). Editor of R&R. Contributing editor at Zona Motel.
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Essays Editor at Zona Motel
novel writer: ULTRALUMINOUS (MCDxFSG, 2017), YOUNG GOD (FSG, 2014)
Author of JT LeRoy NEW EDITIONS "SARAH" & "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" from Harper Perennial (US)/Little Brown Book Group (UK) IG: @laura_albert / Twitter: @lauraalbert / https://buymeacoffee.com/lauraalbert
Taylor Lewandowski has work in Bookforum, Interview, The Whitney Review of New Writing, BOMB, and others. His most recent book, The Mystery of Perception: a Conversation with Lynne Tillman, is out now from Archway Editions.
is from Michigan. He is the author of the chapbooks Colossal (2025), Plantain (2018), and the Latin translation project We, Romans (2015). joshboardman.com
Author of The Downside Up Year: A New Dad's Diary (Suburban Drunk Press 2025)
Tracy Dimond is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Smartish Pace, Lines + Stars, Washington Writers Publishing House, and other places.
M. Randal O'Wain is the author of Meander Belt and Hallelujah Station. He is contributing interviews editor at Zona Motel and teaches at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Grant Gerald Miller is a writer, freelance portrait and headshot photographer, and manuscript consultant from Memphis, Tennessee. He can be reached at [email protected].
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