Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. Places like The Paris Review Daily and Poets & Writers have previously written about our creation and development and our books and records have been featured, reviewed, and called best of the year at outlets such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Times Book Review, Frieze, Literary Hub, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books, among others.
Fonograf Ed. is distributed by NYU Press (print) and Asterism (audio).
We are a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).
Our mission
Fonograf Editions exists to take risks that push the boundaries of sound, text, and genre. We value the interdisciplinary, experimental, and unclassifiable, and we strive to bring to life works that resist, bend, and break expectations. We prioritize public access by making a component of each of our releases available for free to the public (such as streaming audio online) and by hosting multiple free community events each year.
Editors
ADIE B. STECKEL Editor, Co-Publisher
Adie B. Steckel is a Portland-based writer whose poetry and criticism appears in Action, Spectacle, A Dozen Nothing, Afternoon Visitor, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, Full Stop, Tagvverk, Variable West, and elsewhere. They work for an HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ healthcare and social services nonprofit.
JEFF ALESSANDRELLI Editor, Co-Publisher
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of several books, including And Yet: a Novel about Sex and Shyness and Society and THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST. His work has appeared in Boston Review, The American Poetry Review, Fence, Poetry London, New American Writing, and others. He’s here and here. Jeff lives in Portland, Oregon, with Airin and Rubert.
ELLENA BASADA Editor
Ellena Basada is a writer and editor from Portland, living in Brooklyn. A 2024 Periplus Fellow and 2019 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, her writing has appeared in Adi Magazine, BOMB, Bright Wall/Dark Room, High Country News, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at NYU, where she is an Axinn Fellow.
ISABEL LEMUS KRISTENSEN Managing Editor
Isabel Lemus Kristensen is a multidisciplinary artist and writer of the Jalisco and Michoacán diaspora living in Oregon. They earned their MA in Book Publishing at Portland State University and a BA in Journalism at the University of Oregon. Isabel is an alum of the Seventh Wave Narrative Shifts 2024 digital residency. Their work has appeared in Portland Monthly, Travel Portland, zines + things, Querencia Press, and elsewhere.
MIKE CORRAO Designer
Mike Corrao is an author and artist whose books include Being Towards Death, Gut Text, and Surface Studies, alongside several others. As a writer his work has appeared in publications like Antiphony, Southwest Review, and Community Masoleum. As a designer, his work has been featured in the catalogs of publishers like Milkweed Editions, the Univeristy of Chicago Press, and Fonograf Editions. He lives in Chicago.
Editorial Assistants
Anya Maria Johnson is a Brooklyn-based writer and an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College. Anya has held editorial positions at several journals––currently, she is the Poetry Editor at Exposition Review. Her most recent publication, “Our Hysterical Country,” for which she won the John B. Santoianni Prize for Excellence in Poetry, is available on poets.org.
Kaya Noteboom (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary writer in Portland, OR. She has an MA in Critical Studies from Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, and her writing has appeared in publications such as Buckman Journal, Charm School Magazine, Public Parking, and Variable West.
Lauren Hough is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. She was a 2026 Publishing Fellow at the Los Angeles Review of Books and a 2025 Curatorial Fellow at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Her research and writing examine literary aesthetics, reading practices in the platform era, and labor. She holds an MA in Critical Studies from PNCA and a BA in Feminist and Gender Studies from Colorado College.
Emma Riskin (she/her) is a writer living in Portland, OR.
Joshua Stanek (he/him) is a poet and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Portland State University.
makayla terrell (she/her) is a Louisiana poet currently residing in Portland. She has obtained an MFA in creative writing at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Board of Directors
Srikanth Reddy is a poet, critic, and literary editor who teaches at the University of Chicago. The author of several acclaimed poetry collections and works of criticism, he is poetry editor of The Paris Review, and series editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press.
Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press in 2023. She lives in St. Paul, MN.
Erika Stevens has over two decades of experience in publishing. Previously editorial director at Coffee House Press, she is currently a literary agent with Salky Literary Management, where her clients span genres and disciplines.
An Associate Professor at University of Cincinnati, Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her books include the poetry collections Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020; James Laughlin Award), and Some Beheadings (2017; The Believer Poetry Award) from Nightboat; and a translation of Farid Tali’s novel Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016).
Lex Orgera is the author of the fragmented memoir, Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press, 2021), and two poetry collections, How Like Foreign Objects and Dust Jacket. She is additionally a book editor, publisher, and plant lover living in North Carolina.
Nick Twemlow is the author of the poetry books Palm Trees (Green Lantern Press, 2012) and Attributed to the Harrow Painter (University of Iowa Press, 2017) and his short films have played Tribeca, SXSW, Slamdance, and other film festivals. He co-edits Canarium Books.
Jay Ponteri directed the creative writing program at Marylhurst University from 2008-2018 and is now the program head of the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s (PNCA) Low-Residency Creative Writing program. Previously awarded the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Jay is the author of several books, mostly recently Someone Told Me (2022).
The founder of Fonograf and its Executive Director and Co-Publisher, Jeff Alessandrelli is a writer based in Portland, OR.
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Generous support for Fonograf Editions has been provided by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), The Kinsman Foundation, Literary Arts, The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Cultural Trust, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, The Poetry Foundation, and individual donations. Thank you!
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Fonograf Editions welcomes tax-deductible donations of any amount. Your support is highly appreciated!