Welcome to Waffle Fried.

(a lit mag)

Kelsey Coletta

Editor-In-Chief

Kelsey is a therapist by day and writer by every other time of day. 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, and Raw Lit. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, their 2 dogs, and their 2 cats. Her chonky orange boi is pathologically obsessed with her, which is an unnecessary fact but felt relevant somehow. 

She’s a fan of run-on sentences, strangely structured poetry, and prose poetry. She loves seeing a strong voice in both poetry and CNF. A strong first line is a great start and a last line that causes a visceral reaction (chills down the spine, please!) is perfection. Kelsey’s first love was words and she wants to feel something when she reads them. Make your words sing!

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

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 is forthcoming in Eunoia Review. 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.