Editorial Team

Editor in Chief and Co-Founder

Dr. Vince Omni, MFA, McKnight Doctoral Fellow, Florida State University
vinceomni05@gmail.com

 

Research Editor and Co-Founder

Dr. Christal Mischelle Omni, MPH, MLS Florida State University

OMNI Institute of Well-being, INC.

Founder and Chief Emotional Officer

Website: www.OmniInstituteOfWellbeing.org 

Email: Dr.Chris@OmniInstituteOfWellbeing.org 

 

Poetry Editor

Thomas Kneeland is the Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the chapbook, We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep. His poetry and writing explores ancestry, ecological memory, and the effects of intergenerational trauma in Black, Afro Latine, and Afro Indigenous contexts. A recent recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for poems published in Prairie Schooner, his publication credits include Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Southern Humanities Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Kneeland was recently nominated for Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Best of Small Fiction Anthology. Named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by The EDU Ledger, Kneeland is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Anderson University.

2025 - 2026 Interns

Gemini Williamson, Florida State University

Eryn Files, Marketing Intern, Florida State University

Michelle Gunn, Florida State University

Technical Editors
Landis Grenville, Ph.D., Florida State University
Lisa A. Johnson, Florida State University