WHO WE ARE
Small Orange is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) online poetry journal that publishes roughly 8-10 poets and the work of one visual artist per issue. Our publication schedule varies depending on time, resources, and the strength of submissions. We are committed to inclusion in the arts and we love all kinds of poetry. We are dedicated to featuring the most beautiful, inspiring and thoughtful work provided to us. If you are interested in submitting your work, please visit our submissions page for the guidelines. We are a small volunteer staff, but we do our best to read and respond to submissions as timely as possible.
Orange Editions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) publishing press that publishes the online literary magazine, Small Orange Journal, a chapbook print anthology series of poetry, and the book-length print interview series, Small Orange Conversations with Poets. Check out our new poetry in translation series, a letterpress, handbound chapbook edition: THROUGH/YOU (ORANGE IMPORT).
Editorial Director
Carlie Hoffman is the author of One More World Like This World (Four Way Books, 2025), When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, and is the translator of Jewish, German-language poet Selma Meerbaum Eisinger’s Blütenlese [Harvest of Blossoms] (World Poetry Books, forthcoming), German Surrealist poet and photo artist Anneliese Hager’s White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2024), and the selected poems (forthcoming) of Eastern European-American modernist, Jewish, German-language poet Rose Ausländer. A poet and translator, she is a recipient of a 92NY/ “Discovery” prize, a Poets & Writers Amy Award, and fellowships from Columbia University, the City University of New York, Yetzirah, and more. Her work has been featured in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Jewish Currents, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, New England Review, and elsewhere.
Managing Editor
Ariel Francisco is the author of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.
Senior Poetry Editor and Social Media Manager
Lianna Lazaros is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College. She received her BA in Creative Writing at SUNY Purchase, where she was awarded the Ginny Wray Prize in Poetry. She currently works as a College Ambassador at The Morgan Library and Museum. In her free time, she frequents museums and enjoys flaneusing around Manhattan. Her work has previously been published in midsummer magazine, Italics Mine, Gandy Dancer, and elsewhere.