Welcome to Waffle Fried.

(a lit mag)

Kelsey Edwards

Editor-In-Chief

Kelsey is a therapist by day and writer by…every other time. She is a passionate collector of partially-filled notebooks and has been curating her collection since second grade. She might write a book one day. Her work has appeared in You Might Need to Hear This, TPT Mag, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine, Frazzled Lit, Anti-heroin Chic, PunkMonk Mag, Eunoia Review, Marrow Magazine, Two Hawks Quarterly, Rough Diamond Poetry Journal, libre, and Silly Goose Press. Her poem “body”, published in Raw Lit, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rhode Island with her 2 cats in a chaotic apartment that she promises will be totally super unbelievably organized one day. 

Likes: prose poetry, memoir, experimental form, Sans Serif, gloomy rainy days, narwhals, politics, pupusas, pisco 

Dislikes: Long fiction, rhyming poetry (unless it’s REALLY strong writing), Comic Sans, unnecessarily long bios, humidity, mannequins, days that feel like Friday but aren’t, meetings that could have been emails

She can be found on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter: @thehiccupotamus

Ben Branchaud

Editor and Layout

Ben is a labor union organizer, a photographer, and former editor and journalist at a small-town newspaper. His literary work and visual art has been featured in Eunoia Review, Fussub Mag, Three Panels, Ink in Thirds, and Rough Diamond Poetry Journal. He has a young daughter who will either be the fourth woman to serve as President of the United States or will be expelled from the country for treason (or both). In his free time, he plays Flamenco guitar and takes pictures of people in places where they have no legal right to or expectation of privacy.

Likes: short poetry, blank verse, very poetic prose, red wine, bleu-cheese-stuffed olives, hyphenated-compound adjectives, chess, uprooting his life biannually.

Dislikes: Capitalism, free trade, when people don’t spell out numbers ten or fewer, numbers, most fiction, bad dialogue, whoever the president is right now.

He can be found on Instagram where things are still relatively normal: @benjaminbranchaud