The 2026 Cæsura Team
Anthony Bellon, Editor‑in‑Chief
Anthony returns to Caesura in 2026 after having served in various capacities over the last 5 years (as Fiction Editor and fiction/nonfiction reader) in the role of Editor-in-Chief. He is a writer and a filmmaker with a passion for popular media, games, film, and television. Anthony is currently working on a deep dive into a popular science fiction series in a collaborative exercise about the evolution of popular fiction through the eyes of fans from three generations. He considers himself a humorist, artist, writer and generally a decent person who believes Caesura is a fantastic opportunity to get seen as an artist for the first time or possibly to get something new into the zeitgeist.
Darrell Dela Cruz, Managing Editor
Darrell Dela Cruz’s debut collection This is a Love Poem, Listen (Tourane Poetry Press) came out in 2024. His work has also appeared in Saw Palm, The Minetta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Studio One, Steam Ticket, and Cider Press Review. As an editor, he worked in Reed Magazine and Red Wheelbarrow. He was a VONA 2025 fellow. For more about him and his analysis of poems: ddcpoetry.blogspot.com.
David Perez, Poetry Editor
David Perez served as the 2014-2016 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. He’s a recipient of the Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowship for Literary Art and the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture Achievement Award. He’s also a repeat guest on the NPR storytelling series, Snap Judgment and author of the poetry collection, Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse from Write Bloody Publishing. Most recently, his work has appeared in The Wild Word and the DMQ Review. He has taught literature and creative writing at San Jose State University and Ohlone College in Fremont, CA.
Anthony Bellon, Fiction Editor
Kimy JM Knight, Art Editor
Kimy JM Knight has been a prolific participant in the arts and a strong supporter of artists in several mediums. Her first narrative portraiture solo show was in Los Angeles, CA. which focused on snapshot moments of a tumultuous childhood in an American diaspora landscape. She has taught multiple art mediums including puppetry to adults, teens, and children. Some of her work with Caesura have been interviewing renown artists, directors, activists songwriters, and photographers. Kimy has written award winning scripts and poetry. Her MFA thesis, which was a hybrid docupoetry book, has morphed into a scripted television series, the pilot to be produced in the fall. To find more of Kimy’s work go to kmartist.com.
The 2025 Cæsura Team
Alex Bentley, Editor-in-Chief
Seamus Woods, Fiction Editor
Jae Fields, Poetry Editor
Kimy JM Knight, Co-Art Editor & Managing Editor
Jane Kovac, Co-Art Editor
Anthony Bellon, Editor
Linda Lappin, Editor
Kevin Parsons, Editor
Renée M. Schell, Editor
Renée M. Schell won the 2025 Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry. Her debut collection, Overtones, was published in 2022 by Tourane Poetry Press. Her poetry appears in New Verse News, Catamaran Literary Reader, Literary Mama, Naugatuck River Review, and many other journals. She was lead editor for the anthology (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, she taught for seven years at a Title I elementary school in San José, California.