:: Mission ::
The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought originated late one night. We were interested in the conversations that could arise when an account was paired with creative work. We imagined a journal where writers could offer such accounts beside their poems and prose, and where artists could offer the same pairing of work and aesthetic statement.
account = history, sketch, marker, repository of influences
An account of a specific work traces its arc—through texts and world—while giving voice to the artist’s approach. The literary/art market’s tidal wave can tend to engulf the maker’s account of the work. We believe that an account can restore the relationship between artist and aesthetic.
The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought encourages writers to submit work of any aesthetic. All work must be submitted with an account.
Our writers have won the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Interested in submitting work? Check out our guidelines.
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Contact: poetryprosethought@gmail.com
:: Masthead ::
Sean Cho A., Editor-in-Chief
Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House 2021) winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be found in The New England Review, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at The University of California Irvine and a PhD Student at the University of Cincinnati. Find him @phlat_soda
Brooke Harries, Interviews and Reviews Editor
Brooke Harries is from California. Her poetry appears in Denver Quarterly, Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, North American Review, Salamander, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize, the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Dissertation & Thesis Fellowship, and the UC Irvine Graduate Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her work has been supported by Community of Writers and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and she’s an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She has an MFA from UC Irvine and a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she served as Associate Editor of Mississippi Review.
Nicola Koh, Fiction Editor
Nicola Koh is a Malaysian Eurasian 17 years in the American Midwest, an atheist who lost their faith completing their Masters of Theology, and a minor god of Tetris. They got their MFA from Hamline University and were a 2018 VONA/Voices and 2019/20 Loft Mentors Series fellow. Their fiction has appeared in places like the Margins, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, and the Brown Orient. Nicola enjoys taking too many pictures of their animal frenemies, crafting puns, and listening to public domain audio books after injuring their neck reading (which they console themselves by calling a literary wound of honour). See more at nicolakoh.com.
Rachele Salvini, Nonfiction Editor
Rachele Salvini is an Italian writer based in the United States, where she is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. She is a bilingual writer and translator, and her stories, essays, and translations in English have been published in Lunch Ticket, Necessary Fiction, Modern Poetry in Translation, and others. One of her essays won the 2020 edition of the Stirling Spoon contest “Identity in America.” At the moment she is translating and editing a collection of work by British and American authors, forthcoming in Italy by Digressioni Editore.
Christina Stoddard, Poetry Editor, Managing Editor
Christina Stoddard is the author of Hive, which won the 2015 Brittingham Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press). Her work has appeared in storySouth, Tupelo Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Christina lives in Nashville, TN where she is the managing editor of an economics and decision theory journal. Visit her online at www.christinastoddard.com and on Twitter at @belles_lettres
Tali Falk-Judson, Fiction Reader is a fiction writer and elementary school educator living in Somerville, Massachusetts. They have a real passion for writing of all sorts but a special love for great dialogue and any story that makes you take a few minutes to yourself to contemplate the state of the world. They are currently working on a manuscript entitled Asteroid, as well as several short stories.
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Tyler Mills, Founding/Consulting Editor
Tyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her nonfiction manuscript-in-progress, The Bomb Cloud, recently received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute, is a Founding/Consulting Editor of The Account, and lives in Brooklyn.
Brianna Noll, Founding/Consulting Editor