Ope is the salty but sweet composite persona of the editors of Skipjack Review. Small but hardy, Ope rose from the depths of the black lagoon that is the Hollywood condition in hopes of returning heart to the fracturing pieces of humanity we call writing and art.

Jim Huff is a writer and outdoorsman from the Missouri Ozarks, USA, with a warm place in his liver for scotch whisky. He enjoys subverting expectations, challenging conventions, and promoting vulnerability and personal growth, often simultaneously exploring difficult subject matter and experimental forms. His fiction, poetry, and essays have received several Best-of nominations and appear or are forthcoming in Jersey Devil Press, Cutfleaf Journal, Third Wednesday Magazine, and elsewhere.

Emily Lord is a Missouri writer, comedian, storyteller, and comic book artist. Her publications include children’s books, comics at various corners of the internet and Past Ten Magazine, and in Paddle Shots: A River Pretty Anthology. She unfortunately lives in Texas where she shares a home with her talented, loving husband, and two crazy-ass huskies.

Michael Brasier is a Midwest writer and musician who was once told he looked “tasty” by none other than WWE wrestling legend, Madusa. His stories and poems appear or are forthcoming in Moon City Review, Crack the Spine, The Phoenix, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, and elsewhere.



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