Our Story

Mason Jar Press has been publishing handmade, limited-run chapbooks and full-length books since 2014. The Press is dedicated to finding new and exciting work by writers that push the bounds of literary norms. While the work Mason Jar seeks to publish is meant to challenge status quos, both literary and culturally, it must also have significant merit in both those realms.

 

Mason Jar Press is:

 

Ian Anderson [Founder|Editor-In-Chief] is a writer and designer living in Baltimore, MD. He earned  an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing arts from the University of Baltimore in 2014.


celeste doaks [Poetry Editor, at large] is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields and American Herstory, a 2018 Backbone Press chapbook winner. She’s also the editor of the Not Without Our Laughter anthology and has been teaching creative writing for over a decade. Recently, her ekphrastic poems have been featured at the Whitney Museum of American art and the Brooklyn Museum. A 2022 Yaddo fellow, doaks lives in Baltimore with her husband and too many house plants.


 

Ashley Miller [Content Editor] lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she is sometimes writing and sometimes editing, but is almost always reading. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.


 

Michael B. Tager [Managing Editor] is a writer and editor. His work has appeared places and can be found through his website. He is a part-time narwhal.


 

Briana Wingate [Web Manager] is a graduate of University of Baltimore’s MFA program. In her free time, she can be found reading, writing, or listening to podcasts on her kitchen counter.


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Rachel Wooley [Senior Reader] is a watercolor artist and library assistant living in Central Illinois. She has degrees in writing/publishing and theatre. Her numerous hobbies include ballet classes, traveling, and eating dessert. 


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Heather Rounds [PR Manager] is the author of the novel THERE (Emergency Press, 2013), the novella SHE NAMED HIM MICHAEL (Ink Press, 2017) and the novel LIGHT THERE IS TO FIND (Adelaide Books, 2018). Her poetry and short works of fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including PANK,Big Lucks, Smokelong Quarterly andAtticus Review. Visit her at http://www.heatherrounds.com/


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Taylor Lynn [Reader] never goes anywhere without a book or a camera. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Baltimore.


Andrew Sargus Klein [eBook Designer] is a queer poet, essayist, graphic designer, and critic living in Baltimore with his partner and their two cats. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Hyperallergic, The Offing, and elsewhere. He sets e-type at Mason Jar Press and is a former editor at Platypus Press, Territory, and Pigeonholes. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and is the Print & Design Manager for the Enoch Pratt Free Library.


 

K.C. Mead-Brewer [Social Media Editor] is a writer of mostly weird, dark fiction. You can check out her stories here. Fun fact: K.C.’s rowhome used to be part of an orphanage in the early 1900s; no child-ghosts have been encountered yet, but one can hope.


Former Staff

  • Tonee Moll

  • Bola King-Rushing

  • Tomas Moniz

  • Maya Walker

  • Tatum Marshall

  • Lizzie Travis

  • Natalie Ko

  • Brenna Ebner

  • Katya Buresh

  • Gracie Jordan

  • Stephanie Anderson

  • Jon Lehr