Staff

Lance Ümmenhofer (he/him) is a bipolar Southern author, editor, and publisher from Nashville, TN, USA. He is the author of No Child of Mine (forthcoming from Main Street Rag) and is Editor-in-Chief of April Gloaming Publishing and the literary and arts journal, Waxing & Waning. You can find previous or forthcoming work from him in Suspense Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, In Parentheses, Prometheus Dreaming, and Belmont. You can find him on Instagram @lanceummenhofer and subscribe to his Substack at thehorrid.substack.com.

Robyn Leigh Lear is the Creative Director for April Gloaming Publishing, an Associate Professor, and a poet living in Nashville, TN. Lear’s debut collection, Ekphrasis as Divination: An Incantation Catalogue, debuted in February 2025. Her work has been featured in Wild Roof Journal, Grand Little Things, Kindling Art’s The Naughty Tree, and Heroic Couplets, to name a few. She is currently finalizing her second manuscript, Yonderling, written under the yearlong mentorship of Diane Seuss.

Drew Holden is a graphic designer and artist. He was always drawn to the visual, whether it was drawing or building things. Drew began to study graphic design at Austin Peay State University two years later, and this changed his entire life. He knew what direction the future was going to take him. Upon graduation, he started working with Robyn Leigh Lear’s Authors and Artists: The Regenerates, and has now become April Gloaming Publishing’s Lead Designer, combining his artistic visions and talents into the creative ideals of this independent press.

Matthew Johnstone is the author of the poetry collection, Let’s be close Rope to mast you, Old light (Blue & Yellow Dog, 2010), and the chapbooks o n e (Inpatient Press, 2015), and Note on Tundra (DoubleCross Press, 2016). In addition to his work with April Gloaming, he runs the Free Nashville Poetry Library and hosts the E t A l. poetry readings, both of Nashville, Tennessee.