Meet the Oh-So-Fluid Team
Back on Board, M. Brianna Stallings MFA is once again the Managing Editor. She designed the cover for the WLJ anthology of 2020. Brianna is an editor, writer and journalist based in Texas currently.
Most recently we had a year with Rachel Schinderman She is a big believer in how place shapes who we are and who we hope to become. Much of her work is about where she has lived and its impact. She took the helm from summer 2023 to 2024.
Tej Rae was our Managing Editor during 2021-23. She is a freelance writer currently based in Rome, working on her third novel. After teaching high school English for 15 years, she transitioned to journalism and fiction. Her publishing credits include The Washington Post, BBC Focus on Africa magazine, The National newspaper in UAE, YogaLife Middle East, The Wheelhouse Review, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Eunoia Review, Romeing, Spittoon, and Fiction365, among others. Tej has two teenage children and travels with her work for the United Nations. Since 1999, she has lived in Zambia, Senegal, Dubai, Rome, and Ethiopia as of August 2019. In all of these places, she has formed and led writing groups. In Senegal, she helped establish Africa’s first children’s museum, ImagiNation Afrika, which is still thriving. http://tejrae.com
Kevin Koranteng Cheeseman was our Website Manager. Kevin is the author of two #1 Amazon best sellers. Monsoon Diaries, An African in India, and The Pocket Book of Little Big Things. You can read about the adventures of this young African as he traversed the Indian continent here. Proceeds form his books funds The Back Pack Society to encourage backpacking in communities underrepresented on the road.
Clement Obropta studied cinema and photography at Ithaca College in New York. He has worked in Los Angeles and in New York City, where he wrote and edited for Men’s Journal. He mostly writes film criticism, published chiefly in Film Inquiry and The Slice, and also serves as a culture editor at MAYDAY Magazine. As he’s on a newly-grad-in-a-pandemic budget, most of his traveling is done vicariously through books, films, chats with friends in other countries, and submissions to Wanderlust.
Kendall Poe was our Copy Editor. She is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared on the blogs of Tin House and Paris Review. Last year Southeast Review awarded the honor of World’s Best Short-Short Story. If not writing, Kendall likes to bike around Central Park, NYC.
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Sarah Leamy, MFA, is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Editor. She is a bit of a wanderer, having left home in England at 18 to live in Germany, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico and the States. She gives presentations on solo travels, overlanding, writing, and more. She’s an award-winning author of both novels, short stories, and travelogues including Van Life. She is the publisher at Wild Dog Press, a micro-publisher of travel books, both memoirs and poetry.
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