About Writers Resist
Writers Resist is a feminist literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. We publish creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists from around the globe.
We’re dedicated to challenging all things that diminish our collective quest for social justice and a healthy planet for all, while having a bit of fun.
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Meet the Writers Resist Editorial Team
Because Writers Resist is an intersectional feminist journal, our team members are intentionally diverse, having included Asian, Black, Indian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Mexican, Middle-Eastern, and white representation. The more diversity the merrier. We’re pleased to introduce our current editors.
Candice Louisa Daquin
Poetry editor
Candice Louisa Daquin is a trauma-psychotherapist and editor. She was part of the resistance before moving to America and has stayed in the trenches ever since, actively supporting immigrants, migrants and survivors. Her activism has been through crisis and immigrant centers and by serving in editorial capacities on urgent projects including: We Will Not Be Silenced (#metoo), SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like (lesbian award-winning poetry anthology), The Kali Project (Indian women poets), and As The World Burns (#BLM).
Candice has an MFA in Creative Writing and advanced training in trauma-therapy. As an ardent feminist, her mixed-race background (Egyptian/French) and the prejudices she’s experienced as a BIPOC, queer immigrant impact her ongoing intention to be the change she wants to see.
Candice freelances with Indie Blu(e) Publishing (feminist micro-press) as their Senior Editor; Raw Earth Ink, Queer Ink (supporting emerging Indian LGBTQi+ authors); Tint Journal (writer in translation); The Pine Cone Review, Parcham Magazine (India) and LitFoxBooks. She has been asked to co-judge the Silver River Poetry Award 2025 with River Paw Press, she has judged The Northwind Writing Award for the last two years, and she regularly writes for World Literature Today, Different Truths, Borderless and others. Candice is the author several poetry collections and her debut novel, The Cruelty, based upon the legacy of sexual violence, is publishing Fall 2025 (FlowerSong Press).
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Prose editor and publisher
Spawned by a Southern Baptist creationist and a liberal social worker, K-B inherited the requisite sense of humor to survive family dinner-table debates and the imagination to avoid them. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside, Palm Desert, and teaches Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Cal State University system.
When not doing writerly things and teaching, she attends protests, rages, and posts Plan C Pills stickers in public bathrooms.
K-B’s narrative nonfiction, commentary, political fiction, book reviews and author features have been published in Hard Crackers, Evening Street Review and Evening Street Press, Not My President: The Anthology of Dissent (Thoughtcrime Press, 2017), Ducts magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Missing Slate, Trivia: Feminist Voices, Ms. Magazine , the former Gay San Diego, North County Times, and others. She’s the publisher and a founding editor of Writers Resist. Her long-ignored website is KBGressitt.com.
She will soon be pitching a satirical college novel that her evil twin wrote.
Debbie Hall
Poetry and photo editor
Debbie Hall is a psychologist and writer whose poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including the San Diego Poetry Annual, Serving House Journal, Sixfold, Poets Reading the News, Poetry24, Bird’s Thumb, Califragile, Gyroscope Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review.
Her essays have appeared on NPR (This I Believe series), in USD Magazine, and in the San Diego Union Tribune. She completed her MFA in 2017 at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
Debbie received honorable mentions in the 2016 and 2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize competition and won second place in the 2018 Poetry Super Highway contest. She is the author of two poetry collections: In the Jaguar’s House (The Poetry Box, 2022) and What Light I Have (Main Street Rag Books, 2018), a finalist in the 2019 San Diego Book Awards, and an award-winning chapbook, Falling Into the River (The Poetry Box, 2020).
In addition to writing, Debbie’s passions include photography and world travel. She and her partner, both native Southern Californians, live in north San Diego County.
L.A. Hunt
Prose editor
L. A. Hunt is passionate about lots of things. Her latest online search obsessions include books, coffee, zombies, outdoor living spaces, wireless bras, lip balm, zodiac signs as boba drinks, best wine patios, screenwriting hacks, doomsday prepping, urban gardening, Tokyo Owl Café, and Texas BBQ.
Her protagonists are almost always women, on the verge of all that life has to offer—the love, the loss, the conflict, and the heartbreak—all part and parcel of coming of age, at any age.
She is an educator with more than twenty years of experience teaching high school English, four of those as a high school Assistant Principal. Along with an MA in Educational Leadership, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from the UCR Palm Desert Low Residency Program (UCRPD) where her main genre was fiction, and her cross-genre was screenwriting. She is also a TV writer, having recently completed UCLA’s Professional Certificate Program in TV Writing.
She served as the fiction editor for the The Coachella Review Winter 2021 Issue, UCRPD’s literary magazine. Her nonfiction has been published by You Might Need To Hear This, GXRL, and The Coachella Review, among others. More about Lori and her writing can be found on her website: writerlahunt.carrd.co.
Gaby Lopez
Editorial Intern
Having moved around her whole life, Gabriela “Gaby” Lopez turned to writing as a method of stability. Now, she is a full-time student at Cal State University San Marcos (CSUSM), graduating in 2026 with a major in Literature and Writing and a minor in Sociology. She is originally from Denver, Colorado, but moved to Murrieta, California, at a young age. Coming from a Spanish-speaking household, her mother being Puerto Rican and her father being Argentinian, she has learned to combine the languages and cultures to create art. She specifically focuses on all things queer, feminine, and Hispanic (specifically, immigration). When she’s not devouring a book, she can be found working at the on-campus Writing Center.
One of Gaby’s queer short stories was published in CSUSM’s student-led 318 Journal, Spring 2025 Issue 4. She has also been published in inherspacejournal, in their 2.5 Issue titled Plastic Pearls. She hopes to continue publishing her writing in various journals and one day publish a novel.
Lonav Ojha
Social Media Editor
Lonav Ojha is a writer from Assam, India. As with every part-time editor and full-time ocean lover, Lonav needs to touch grass. His work was longlisted for TOTO Awards twice and has appeared in The Apollonian, Mukoli, Writers Resist, ASAP Art, Agents of Ishq, Open Dosa and LiveWire.
Lonav is a graduate of the English and Foreign Languages University, where he founded Sagar Square. In addition to writing and editing, he designs for literary magazines, theatre productions and political collectives. He also gets weirdly excited about event planning. Like really weird. Best never bring it up.
Last, Lonav finds Ahilya Bamroo cute, thinks Gregory Orr is stunning, and blogs at Stories Under My Bed.
Emeritus Editors
We are ever grateful to our past editors who helped launch, nurture and guide Writers Resist. Thank you!
Victoriano Cárdenas
Poetry Editor
DW McKinney
Poetry and Prose Editor
René Marzuk
Poetry and Prose Editor
Laura Orem
Poetry Editor