Coe Douglas / Managing Editor
Coe Douglas writes fiction and creative nonfiction. He is the managing editor of Bridge Eight Literary Magazine and co-founder of the Abridged Reading Series in Jacksonville. He has written for the Heavy Feather Review, The Tampa Review Online, Elephant Journal, Metazen, Literary Orphans, First Coast Magazine, the story compilation 396 Hours, and the recent Eat Flash audio story compilation. He’s attended the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop and was a contributor at The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference last summer. Coe is currently working on a novel. He tweets @coewrote.
Melanie Manuel / Fiction Editor
Melanie is the fiction editor of Bridge Eight Magazine. She writes fiction and poetry and has an MA in Literature. She taught in China and Germany, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 2009 summer program in Monterey, CA, and an Asian Studies Fellowship from the University of Florida. In 2013 Melanie was awarded the Hermitage Artist STAR residency. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL. She attended the Master Fiction Writers’ Workshop last summer at the New York Writers’ Institute.
Teri Youmans Grimm / Poetry Editor
Teri Youmans Grimm is a fourth generation Floridian. She received her BFA in poetry at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and her MFA at Vermont College. Her poetry collection, Dirt Eaters, was chosen for the University of Central Florida’s contemporary poetry series and was published by the University Press of Florida. Her second collection, Becoming Lyla Dore, is upcoming from Red Hen Press in the spring of 2016. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, South Dakota Review, Connecticut Review, Sugar House Review, EAT and Homegrown in Florida: An Anthology of Florida Childhoods, among other journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of a Nebraska Arts Fellowship and has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Hambidge Center. She teaches in the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s low-res MFA program.
Jared Rypkema – Publisher
Jared is a fiction writer and founder of Left on Mallory – a writer’s community in Jacksonville, Florida that looks to connect and promote a literary culture through workshops, events and publishing Bridge Eight.
Josh Mauser – Product Photography
Josh Mauser is a Kentucky native, Florida transplant and a concept driven photojournalist.