Sweet Tree Review is a biannual online literary and arts publication obsessed with ineffable connectivity.

A sweet tree does not have a single definition. A sweet tree is everything you need it to be and nothing you expect it to be.
 
A sweet tree is the inceptive – your earliest memory, the stain of blackberry juice, the cat you lost in fourth grade, your latest road trip postcard, the B minus on your thesis, the old lady that laughed at you kissing your boyfriend, the bus you waited for in the rain when you misread the schedule.
 
A sweet tree is the aftermath – the fireweed, the clink of soapy glasses after a funeral, the lights without the sirens, the 3:34 am phone call, the bustle of the hospital after the monitor stops, the thrum of helicopter blades over rubble, the exhale of a rescue dog.
 
Confront us. Endear us. Scare us. Sadden us. Show us things we don’t understand; things we didn’t know we wanted to understand.
 
 

Jesse Ewing-Frable
Founder, Editor-In-Chief

Jesse Ewing-Frable is an Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Sweet Tree Review. She graduated from Western Washington University in June 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing. She has previously worked as the Poetry Editor for Jeopardy Magazine. Her favorite writers include Louise Glück, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Joshua Beckman, Natalie Diaz, and Harper Lee. When she encounters writer’s block, she plays Tupac and eats kettle corn.

Hannah Newman
Founder, Editor-In-Chief

Hannah Newman is a founding Editor-in-Chief of Sweet Tree Review and holds an MFA from Western Washington University. She is currently working on a collection of short stories about women, ghosts, and joy. When she isn't writing, you can find her reading obscure fairy tales and drinking too many cups of coffee. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Entropy, Hobart, Stirring, Gingerbread House, Yemassee Journal, and elsewhere. 

Elizabeth Vignali
Editor, Poetry

Elizabeth Vignali is an optician and writer in the Pacific Northwest, where she coproduces the Bellingham Kitchen Sessions reading series. She is the author of Object Permanence and coauthor of Your Body A Bullet. Her poems and essays have appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Timber, Tinderbox, The Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Elspeth Jensen
Editor, Poetry

Elspeth Jensen earned her BA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University, and her MFA from George Mason University. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Journal, DIAGRAM, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was the 2019 winner of Rabbit Catastrophe's Real Good Poem contest. She also loves dogs and tiny things.

Eleanor Howell
Editor, Prose

Eleanor Howell is a writer and former baker living in the Pacific Northwest. She is an MFA candidate at Western Washington University. She has been published at This Week Online, the online edition of the Southeast Review, and is a fiction editor and the social media manager for the Bellingham Review. She writes fiction and non-fiction about feminism, pop culture, cults, romance plots, sex, and living in bodies.

Maggie Samson
Art Director

Formerly the print designer for Jeopardy Magazine, Maggie is fascinated by providing tactile interactive experiences and exploring both the fusion and division of design and art. By day, she designs; by night, she talks to strangers for way longer than socially appropriate and gives new names to her neighbors' cats.