About
Pool Party is the brainchild of writers/artists/lovers Ryan-Ashley Anderson and Kevin Maloney. They wanted to create a reading series and online mag that was as passionate about love, sex, and murder, as they are—a way to share the work of people who write to inspire both sacral rumblings and gripping fear—and so Pool Party was born.
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Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney
Managing Editor, Creative Director, Non-Fiction & Poetry Editor
Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney, a conceptual artist and writer from the rural South currently living in the Pacific Northwest, has published with X-R-A-Y, Icebreakers, and Farewell Transmission, among others. Anderson takes an autoethnographic approach when excavating her personal narrative as a chronically ill queer, female, autistic, sex worker to explore ideas of temporality, grief, and precarity within our current cultural situation. She is currently writing a memoir about girlhood, illness, and belonging. You can learn more about her at ryanashleyanderson.com.
Kevin Maloney
Fiction Editor, Web Developer
Kevin Maloney is the author of Horse Girl Fever, The Red-Headed Pilgrim, and Cult of Loretta. At times a TJ Maxx associate, grocery clerk, outdoor school instructor, organic farmer, electrician, high school English teacher, and teddy bear salesman, Kevin currently works as a web developer and writer. His writing has appeared in Fence, HAD, Little Engines, Forever Magazine, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney. You can find him at kevinmaloney.net or on Bluesky, Twitter (X), and Instagram at @kevinrmaloney.
Brian Stephen Ellis
Poetry Editor
Brian Stephen Ellis is the author of five collections of poetry, and one collection of short fiction. Their most recent collection of poems, Against Common Sense (Limit Zero) is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. They live in Portland, Ore.
