WELCOME TO DISHSOAP!
Dishsoap was founded in your kitchen sink. This is to say that we're collectors of the in-between: of the ordinary and the strange, of what has been loved and lost. Whether they're the elegies of jellyfish taped to the fridge or a ballad to the light that skirts across the linoleum, we'd love to take a look.
Dishsoap strives to house the still-in-progress. We want work that captures the liminal and the transitory, what lies between our histories and our words.
Thank you for sharing this moment with us. We're so glad you could make it.
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Miriam Alex
Editor in Chief
Miriam Alex is from southern New Hampshire. Her work is published in Frontier Poetry, Gigantic Sequins, and Uncanny Magazine, among others. At the moment, she is likely playing word games on her phone or rewatching her favorite sitcoms. She hopes you have a lovely day.
Jennifer Chiu
Managing editor
Jennifer Chiu is from Memphis, TN. Her prose and poetry are published or forthcoming in wildness, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. When she’s not writing, she enjoys afternoon walks and making playlists.
Marnie Russell
Prose editor
Marnie Russell is an English Literature and Theatre Studies graduate from Glasgow, Scotland. She predominantly writes plays and prose while working on various creative projects as a script advisor and dramaturg. Over the past year, she co-wrote 'EAT WORMS' with her production company False Starts Productions, an episodic digital theatre piece showcased at Scottish Youth Theatre's Making Space festival. Her digital serial 'returning (the act of)' received the Digital Award at the Scottish Emerging Theatre Awards. Marnie is currently working on a novel and eating far too much bread.
Catherine O'Neill
Prose editor
Catherine hoards books and cats in her corner of England. She writes prose, plays, and poems with peculiar twists and characters. She was shortlisted for Streetcake Magazine’s Experimental Writing Prizeand by Northern Gravy for poetry; she’s had a play staged atLive Theatre, a short story broadcast on BBC Radio, and her monologue 'Keep Granny's Clock' is on YouTube. She has a degree in English Literature, an MA in Creative Writing, and taught and examined for oodles of years. Shakespeare haunts her.
Catherine Mwitta
Prose editor
Catherine Mwitta has a Bachelors in creative writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a certification in Journalism from Langara College. While she isn’t posting on her blog theaquilla.com, Catherine is volunteering at local Vancouver literary magazines such as Prism International, Room magazine and Mags BC. She has short stories published in Quarantine Reviews, Random Photo Journal, and Otis Nebula. She likewise has bylines at Stir Vancouver, RoyalTee Magazine, SAD Mag and Malahat Review.
Ran Zhao
Editor in chief
Ran Zhao lives in Hong Kong. Her writing can be found in Up the Staircase Quarterly and HAD, among others. In her free time, she enjoys petting cats, eating sweet potatoes, and painting.
Yong-Yu Huang
Managing editor
Yong-Yu Huang lives in Illinois, but she is originally from Taiwan and Malaysia. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Waxwing, Frontier Poetry, and Passages North, among others. In her free time, she can be found doing crosswords and missing the tropical climate.
Janet (Jay) Li
Poetry editor
Janet (Jay) Li is a student from Ohio who loves creativity over all else. When not starting another work-in-progress at one in the morning, they enjoy playing with their bird, Ikea.
Norah Laughter
Poetry editor
Norah Laughter is a student from Russellville, Kentucky. She is a creative writing alumna of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts and her poetry has been recognized by Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She spends most of her time working with the Kentucky Student Voice Team, where she uses storytelling to push for education justice and amplify youth voices. She has two cats, two dogs, and a healthy sum of chickens.
Dhwanee Goyal
Poetry editor
Dhwanee Goyal is seventeen and getting through life one donut at a time. An editor-in-chief of Indigo Literary Journal, her work appears or is forthcoming in Variant Literature, Heavy Feather Review, Honey Literary, and more. Her Twitter handle is @pparallell, and her micro-chapbook, ‘Kasauli Daydreams,’ is out from Ghost City Press.