Our Team

Creative Director

  • is a designer & artist, and freelance creative director & prop stylist living in Jersey City. Her work has appeared in House Beautiful, Chronogram Magazine, and Brownstoner among others. She has produced work for notable brands like Pholk Beauty and Eighty Magazine, a large-format print magazine she founded and ran as designer and creative director, publishing seven issues between 2014 and 2019. She owns vintage shop/used bookstore Sure Things with her husband John, and when she's not at the shop or working on collaborations with other brands and local businesses, she's spending quality time with their two orange tabby cats, Cheddar and Colby-Jack. text goes here

  • is a performance poet and published author of eight chapbooks. With the obligatory MFA in poetry writing from Brooklyn College, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and a single written-on rejection slip from The New Yorker beckoning him to send more, his work has appeared in over 60 magazines and journals that have made appearances on the bottom shelf of the Barnes & Noble newsstand. Some of his favorites include Harpur Palate, California Quarterly, Rockland Review, Poetry Salzburg, Iodine Poetry Journal, Soup Can Magazine, Red Wheelbarrow, and of course, By the WAYE. 

    Trigonis has been a part of the poetry/open mic scene since the 1990s and has headlined at over 40 venues across the NJ/NYC area. Most recently, he’s featured at the Red Wheelbarrow and River Read series. He plays master of ceremonies at WAYE (“We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm”), the monthly series he and his wife Marinell host at Sure Things, their vintage shop/used bookstore in JC Heights. In 2025, Trigonis was selected as guest editor for Red Wheelbarrow 18, which shone a light on Hudson County’s vibrant poetry scene in a segment titled “New Shit!” His latest chapbook of selected poems, Through the Wreckage, was published in 2026 by Finishing Line Press.

Editorial Director

  • is a Puerto Rican poet and Emeritus Youth Poetry Ambassador for the Paterson Poetry Festival. Among other awards, she won the 2024 Five College Prose & Poetry Prize and the 2024 Elizabeth Babcock Prize for Best Poem. Her work is published or forthcoming with The Poetry Society of New York, I Feel Nothing Like Good Anthology, Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week, ART SICK, By The WAYE, and Acentos Review, among others. She also served as a guest reader on By the WAYE No. 04. In October 2024, she was a featured poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival, and in 2025 Isabel was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Most recently, she was a featured poet at NJPAC’s Spoken Word Salsa event, opening for Elisabet Velasquez and Grammy-nominated Salsa artist Frankie Negron. 

Associate Editor

Contributing Editor

  • is a native Jersey City, Dominican-American poet and independent filmmaker. His written works include his micro fiction chapbook Atlands, published by Bottlecap Press in 2025 and Tremulations, a forthcoming collection of prose poems to be published by Finishing Line Press in 2027. Other published works can be found in Teaneck Poetry Park, Yawp Magazine, Bright Flash Literary Review, Complete Sentence, Friday Flash Fiction, and Epilogues, of which Garcia serves as editor and designer.

  • is a writer, artist, and musician born and raised in the United States to Peruvian immigrants. He received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts with a concentration in painting. Heavily influenced by his Andean heritage, Gregg’s work explores themes of migration as a natural phenomenon and circumstances that may lead to the dissonance of cultural assimilation versus integration. His poetry has appeared in By The WAYE and Red Wheelbarrow, and his visual art in New American Paintings, and he has participated in residencies with the Vermont Studio Center and the School of Visual Arts. He is the author of Un Lugar Lejos: Valleys, a chapbook of poems and short stories published by his own press, Echo Thread Books, in 2024.

    Gregg is the founder of Echo Thread Projects and hosts a poetry open mic series in Hopewell, NJ called Poets & Storytellers Open (P&SO). He’s based somewhere in the Sourlands of New Jersey.

Guest Editor

  • is a local New Jersey poet and subversive making her way in the world today and giving it everything she’s got! She has hosted and participated in community workshops and open mics, all focusing on poetry as a cathartic and accessible art form. She has been published in Outlook Springs, Soup Can Magazine, Red Wheelbarrow, and as the featured poet in the second issue of By the WAYE.

Guest Editor

Previous Guest Editors

Isabel Cruz

William Van Sickell

Theta Pavis

I. Buenaventura

Raul Garcia

Ben Figueroa