About Us

Welcome.

We're so glad you found your way here. Have you been wandering the internet long, looking for inspiration? You've stumbled into the right corner of the Web. Whether you're an accomplished poet, a dabbler, or simply a creative personality, Floodmark aims to provide inspiration using a variety of media, prompts, quotes, discoveries, oddities, angles, and voices. In short, we aim to open the conversation of poetry outside of academia. Our mission is to provide you with an interwoven community of inspiration and support. We encourage the beauty of claiming poetry as your own, of pushing back against the work of others to define your own boundaries, of finding life & poetry in the most unexpected places. This website was founded on the belief that poetry is an endless surprise, waiting around corner to embrace you or punch you in the neurons. Our best and brightest wish for you, reader, is that you experience both during your time here.

Meet the Editors:

Alexandria Petrassi is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Floodmark. She is a student in George Mason University's MFA program. She has held prestigious positions such as: Famous Dave's TOGO worker, Basic Skills Test Proctor, Person Who Paints Kids' Faces With Acrylic Paint And Laughs, SAGA Literary Magazine Editor-in-Chief, DIY Weddings Digital Editor, Email Marketing Consultant, and Assistant Editor of So to Speak. When she's not busy working, studying, cleaning, adulting, pretending to exercise, and trying to drink tea instead of coffee, she's been known to write some poetry. Sometimes, it's even good. Most of the time it's not. She's accepted this fate as gracefully as any writer can. Oh, and one of her many small dreams is to own a miniature horse named Nugget. Important talking point. Read Alexandria's work on Floodmark here. Read Alexandria's newest "Letter from the Editor".

Rukmini Girish is the Non-Fiction Editor at Floodmark. She doesn't write poetry, so she's hoping to inspire Floodmark readers with cross-genre talk and general insights on the writing life. She graduated from Augustana College, IL with degrees in Creative Writing and Sociology, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago. Rukmini enjoys writing about culture and exploring the things we take for granted.  

She blogs very occasionally at http://rgjustwrite.wordpress.com. 

Read Rukmini's work on Floodmark here.

Vernon Meidlinger-Chin is the Managing Editor at Floodmark. He is a writer, cartoonist, musician, polyglot, inveterate foodie, irrepressible cyclist, insomniac, art-lover, pie-baker, and reader of books with a cold wet nose and a wagging tail. He currently lives in New York City, where he teaches high school. He has a little trouble getting any writing done these days because the kids keep taking his pens. Vernon's ongoing webcomic can be found at http://arthropunk.tumblr.com/. 

Read Vernon's work on Floodmark here. 

Alyssa Froehling is the Poetry Editor at Floodmark. She writes poetry between classes and spoonfuls of peanut butter. Your laugh may cause her to see a chicken walking, and if you’re wearing velvet, the texture of it may cause her to hear a wayward semi-truck crunching and squeaking along a steel beam on the edge of a freeway. The meaning of her name is “curer of madness” but she’s still figuring out if she lives up to it.

Read Alyssa's work on Floodmark here.

Cam Best is the Fiction Editor at Floodmark. She is an in-the-middle-of-a-quarter-life-crisis kind of gal who spends way too much and yet not enough time inside her head. She doesn't like to brag but (lies: she does) she dabbles in a little bit of everything: poetry, prose, painting, Alliteration Addicts Anonymous, cinematography, ceramics, Cam-we-just-talked-about-this-it's-a-problem-you-need-help-No-screw-you-don't-tell-me-what-literary-devices-I-can-and-can't-use, and T. S. Eliot. She grew up in T. S. Eliot and goes to T. S. Eliot College, where she's majoring in T. S. Eliot. When she's not preparing a face to meet the faces that you'll meet, she's daring to disturb the universe through teaching young baby middle school children that poetry is actually really cool and she will do more than just fail you out of 6th grade English if you say otherwise. Read Cam Best's work on Floodmark here. 

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Writers & Editors of Floodmark Past  

We're constantly growing and our staff always has multiple balls up in the air. We still want to give credit to these fantastic souls, though, we have written and edited for us over the years: 

Emily Glimco is more curious and affectionate than the average rabbit, or so she has been told. Emily is a Co-Founder of Floodmark. Suburbanite by nature but adventurer at heart, Emily is a pretty typical Midwestern girl that just so happens to dabble in poetry. Before starting a blog and joining the "real life" work force, Emily was an Editor of the SAGA Literary Art Magazine's poetry board, student coordinator of the Augustana College River Readings series, a sorority girl, and a varsity swimmer. When not writing or convincing her husband that she most certainly does not have a caffeine addiction (she does), Emily likes to play water polo, crochet, watch endless hours of Netflix, and expand her book collection by purchasing new ones she swears, one day, she'll read.  Read her work on Floodmark here.