Our Team

Rachel Baila is a writer and holistic-healing practitioner based in beautiful East Tennessee. Her poetry, articles, and travel-writing have been published in numerous journals, but her soft spot is with Fauxmoir, where she serves as chief editor. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching, further education in literacy studies, and is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing.

She can be found on Instagram @baila_rae and @fauxmoir_lit_mag and on Twitter @baila_rae and @fauxmoir.

Rachel Aguirre is from San Antonio, Texas. She has a B.A. in English and is currently a freelance editor. She is passionate about LatinX literature—some of her favorite authors are Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Laura Esquivel—and she hopes to publish LatinX poetry in the future. In her free time, she loves to cook Mexican food and make aguas frescas.

Mahy Arafa is a passionate, career-driven individual currently studying at Sheridan College to receive her Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing and Publishing. She is currently working as a German transcriber for an AI company, and she makes a living as a book reviewer. She has been a passionate and aspiring writer and editor since childhood and possesses a complete portfolio of projects including non-fiction, prose fiction, drama, and poetry. She has worked as a transcriber, blog writer, editor, and content writer, but her lifelong dream is to write a script for a feature film, tv show, or video game, to direct and produce it herself, and to write a successful novel, book, or collection of poems.

Pallavi Rengasamy holds a law degree from the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and she is not only fascinated with the world of law, but the ecosystem of writing. She is a reading buff, literary, legal or otherwise. She is often found writing, painting, photographing, designing or editing videos (her personal plethora of hobbies) during her free time, in her native country, the island of Mauritius.

Trevor Ruth is a writer originally from Livermore, California. He has been featured in Occam’s Razor, takahe, The Specter Review, The Typeslash Review, Typishly, Wingless Dreamer and Quiet Lightning among other publications. He has a degree from California State University, East Bay and is featured regularly on The Baram House as a Film Reviewer in Residence. He also has a personal blog at https://trevorruthblog.wordpress.com 

Jeromiah Taylor is a writer and photographer born, raised, and living on The Great Plains. As an essayist Jeromiah publishes widely in regional news outlets such as The Kansas Reflector, The Pennsylvania-Capitol Star, The Sunflower, and The Liberty Press. In 2022, Jeromiah completed his first poetry chapbook "Havoc Heaped on Boy Body," a deep-dive into queer latino manhood, and quarter-life issues, refracted through the images of horror cinema, folk religion, The Great American Songbook, and homoeroticism. He also, along with several members of Wichita State University's M.F.A in poetry program, co-organized and co-headlined, the language event, "Nothing is Necessary, Everything is a Choice: A Night of Spoken Word," hosted by MonikaHouse as a part of the 2022 National Independent Venue Week line-up.

Beyond creative pursuits, Jeromiah worked in copywriting roles for several non-profit organizations, and currently earns a living via that most storied of writerly day jobs: working at a coffee shop.

He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his partner, one impish dog, and one imperious cat.

Luree Scott (she/her) is a writer and performer from San Diego, CA. She received a BA in Theatre Arts and English from the University of San Diego and an MFA in Creative Writing from UCR Palm Desert's Low Residency Program for Creative Writing, where she studied fiction and playwriting. She is a former Drama Editor for The Coachella Review. Her previous works can be read in The Alcalá Review, Kelp Journal, Little Thoughts Press, GXRL, Grande Dame Literary Journal, and Longleaf Review. Her Twitter is @luree_s.

DM Richardson is a writer born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They have a BFA in Creative & Professional Writing from MIU, poetry published in Aji, Club Plum, and New Note Poetry among other places, and enjoy hunting underrated library finds to reimagine as screenplays. 

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Author of her memoir, A Turbulent Mind-My journey to Ironman 70.3’, Swetha Amit is currently pursuing her MFA at University of San Francisco. She has published her works in Atticus Review, JMWW journal, Oranges Journal, Gastropoda Lit, Full House literary, Amphora magazine, Grande Dame literary journal, Black Moon Magazine, Fauxmoir lit mag, Poets Choice anthology, and has upcoming pieces in Drunk Monkeys, Agapanthus Collective, The Creative Zine, and Roi Faineant Press. She is one of the contest winners of Beyond words literary magazine, her piece upcoming in November. She is also, alumni of Tin House Winter Workshop 2022 and the Kenyon Review Writers’ workshop 2022. Twitter: @whirlwindtotsInstagram @swethaamit

Asher Gabriel is an emerging poet and writer with a serious attraction to most genres of music, comics, and movies. He spends much of his day watching video essays, studying culinary arts, and playing with his dog, Rosie.

He is grateful for the opportunity to create playlists for Fauxmoir.

Charlie Jolley is an avid poet and screenwriter whose work can be found in Dear Life, Dear 2021 (Hive), Land of Poets (Seren), EDGE Magazine, and is forthcoming in Chaos Dive Reunion (Mutabilis Press). Charlie was the winner of the Screenwriting in LA Prize 2021, the second-prize winner of the Poetry Society's People of 1381 Protest Poetry Competition, and was highly commended in the Wales Young Poet of the Year Award 2020. She is also very passionate about music and lyricism, her favorite singers being Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker. 

Instagram: chaz_2191

Katy Mitchell-Jones is originally from a small town in Washington state and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with her BA and MA. She then headed to Boston to teach high school English but has since returned to her west coast roots. Her favorite authors are Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, Tana French, and Glendy Vanderah. She has published three short stories with Chipper Press, for middle-grades. You can follow her on Goodreads here.

Emmy Ritchey is a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in or been anthologized by Identity Theory, The Daily Drunk, Dead Skunk, and HASH. She is a fiction reader for The Maine Review and holds an MFA from Hollins University.

Rebecca Samuelson is a Bay Area poet from Hayward, California who writes from the intersection of caretaking and grief. She received her MFA in creative writing, with a concentration in poetry, from Saint Mary’s College of California. She received a BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing, from San Francisco State University. Her work can be found at rebecca-samuelson.com.

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