MAKE X

MAKE X collects memorable work published throughout the last ten years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors, MAKE X honors a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.

Alejandro Almanza, Art Portfolio Editor, is based in New York and Mexico City. He earned a BFA from University of Texas at El Paso, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds and MFA from Hunter College.

Daniel Borzutzky, Intercambio Poetry Editor, is a Chicago-based author and translator. Of Chilean heritage, Daniel has published the collection of fiction Arbitrary Tales (2005), the poetry chapbook Failure in the Imagination (2007), and two full-length volumes of poetry, The Ecstasy of Capitulation (2007) and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011). 

Joel Craig, Poetry Editor, is a Chicago-based graphic designer. Joel co-founded and curates the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago and is the author of the poetry collection White House (2012.)

Sarah Dodson is a co-founder of MAKE Literary Productions and is the managing editor of Poetry Magazine in Chicago.

Kamilah Foreman, Fiction Editor, is based in New York, where she is Senior Editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kamilah was previously an editor at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Joshua Hauth, Art Director, owns and operates the Chicago-based graphic design company Hauthwares. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago.

Sarah Kramer, Art Portfolio Editor and Copy Editor/Proofreader, is based in Chicago. She is Publications Director at the architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang and has also worked on publications for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Brenda Lozano, Intercambio Prose Editor, is a New York-based narrator and essayist. She is the author of Todo Nada (2009) and contributes to Letras Libres and Día Siete, among other publications. She studied Latin American Literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

Mark Molloy, Reviews Editor, is based in New York and graduated from The College of the Holy Cross.

Kathryn Scanlan, Nonfiction Editor, is a Los Angeles-based author, editor, and artist. She holds a BA in English from the University of Iowa and an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.