MISSION STATEMENT

Derailleur Press publishes work that doesn't just get your gears turning—but shifts them entirely. Our poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks are handmade, because we believe inspirational work deserves a personal touch.

THE TEAM

Cassandra Baim
​Co-founder and Fiction Editor

Cassandra Baim, our fiction editor, was born in Chicago, Illinois where she grew up with a book in one hand and a pen in the other. She earned a degree in English and writing in upstate New York, then took her talents to New York City to pursue fiction writing and publishing. Instead she found herself working as a barista, personal stylist, bookseller, book reviewer, and agent’s assistant. You can find her words in PANK Magazine, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Electric Literature, and The JAB. When not reading or writing, she enjoys riding her bicycle, sewing, crossword puzzles, cooking, political activism, and teaching her cat to fetch. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Kate Hatcher
​Co-founder and Nonfiction Editor

Kate, our nonfiction editor, has been a lover of stories since she was a child growing up in Mississippi. Never as much a writer as a reader, she decided to pursue a career in publishing while she was working on her BA in English at Ole Miss. She packed up and moved to London, where she earned an MA in Publishing at Kingston University and incorrectly thought this would be her easy way into the industry.

The following years were full of unpaid internships, underpaid freelancing, and not a small amount of heartache before she wised up and moved to New York where she now works in production at an independent press in Midtown Manhattan and co-started a press with two other strong women. She lives in Brooklyn with the plants she's somehow managed to keep alive.

Jo Longley
Co-Founder and Poetry Editor

Jo Longley, our poetry editor, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Kingston University in London. Her work has been published by The Enemies Project, Confingo, Anapest, and Rue Scribe among others. She was the 2016 editor of Ripple Magazine, and is a co-editor of and key contributor to The Three Magazine.

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