About A Formal Feeling
The Ilanot Review
Spring-Summer 2026
A Formal Feeling
Managing Editor
Marcela Sulak
Guest Editors for Poetry
Jeremy Teddy Karn
Sherre Vernon
Poetry Editor
Marcela Sulak
Creative Nonfiction Editors
Jane Medved
Karen Marron
Fiction Editors
Nadia Jacobson
Taylor Johnston-Levy
Karen Marron
Production Editor
Karen Marron
Event Coordinator
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
Founding Editor
Janice Weizman
The Ilanot Review is an international journal publishing a variety of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and genres in between. We especially love translations and hybrid work. For each issue, guest editors join permanent volunteer staff. We strive to create conversations here that could occur nowhere else.
The Ilanot Review Staff
Jeremy Teddy Karn was born in Monrovia, Liberia. He earned his MFA in English-Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received fellowships to support his work. He is also the recipient of the John C. Shupe Award in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Houston. His chapbook, Miryam Magdalit, was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for inclusion in the New-Generation African Poets’ Chapbook Boxset (APBF) in 2021. He received the Stanley Awards International Fellowship (2024) at the University of Iowa and is a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize in 2024 and also the 2025 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry. He is the co-founder of Pepper Coast Mag. He can be reached out to through his website: www.jeremyteddykarn.com
Nadia Jacobson was born in London and currently lives in Jerusalem. She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and a BA in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy from Cambridge University. Her fiction has appeared in The Miramichi Review, The Waking, Meniscus, Annalemma, The Binnacle, Every Day Fiction and others. She is currently working on two interweaving novels.
Taylor Johnston-Levy holds a postdoctoral fellowship in foreign literatures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and teaches US literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Her fiction and literary critical work appear in Ninth Letter, Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Arizona Quarterly, and The Raymond Carver Review. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley.
Karen Marron is the author of the fiction chapbook BASS 1998, published in 2020 by Gold Line Press. Her work has also appeared in The Bellingham Review, Entropy, and Unbroken Journal, among others. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University and currently lives in Queens. Find her at karenmarron.com.
Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers (2024), and Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project). Her translation of Wherever We Float (by Maya Tevet Dayan) won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize from Saturnalia Books. Recent work appears in Bending Genres, ONE ART, Ruminate, The North American Review and The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her translations appear in Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. Find her at janemedved.net.
Marcela Sulak is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Fault (2024) and the National Jewish Book Award Finalist, City of Sky Papers (2021). Her five translated collections of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been recognized by the NEA and PEN. She has co-edited the 2015 Rose Metal Press title, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. https://marcela-sulak.weebly.com
Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings, The Name is Perilous, and Flame Nebula, Bright Nova. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions.
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy is a poet, translator, and educator whose first poetry collection, “The Book of Noah”, was published by Grayson Books in April 2023. His translations include “Ana Samar — I am Samar” (2023) and “Forbidden to Write About Happiness” (2024) by Zmira Poran Zion.
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