Our Team
Cate Clother, Founder &
Editor in Chief
Cate Clother is an artist and educator living in the mountains of far northern California with her husband and three children. She received her Bachelor's in Fine Art from Westmont College and her Master's in Sustainability Education from Portland State University. Cate founded Cordella Press in 2014 in honor of her grandmother. In addition to her work at Cordella, Cate is an art teacher and director of Cedar Grove Center for Rural Renewal.
Jordan Souza, Prose Editor
Jordan Souza is a writer, editor, and educator living in Portland, Oregon. She co-founded Lilun Magazine and is currently at work on a novel about a woman turning toward and away from home. Words, nature, and her two wild daughters are her constant source of inspiration.
ZenChristian Davis, Poetry Editor
ZenChristian Davis is a fiction writer turned poet, new author, teaching artist, youth slam coach, and overall a storyteller residing in Tampa, FL. She received a BA in creative writing and psychology from the University of South Florida and went on to compete in regional and national slam team competitions as well as becoming the Workshop Director for Heard Em Say Youth Arts Collective. Her works have appeared in USF Thread and IO Literary Journal and more can be found at zenchristianmott.com. In 2018, she self-published her first poetry book, The Burned House Resurrects.
Molly Kugel, Ecology Editor
Molly Kugel is the author of Groundcover (Tolsun 2022), and the chapbooks, sky, lotus, dust (dancing girl press 2023) and The Forest of the Suburbs (Five Oaks 2015). Her writing has appeared most recently in Plant-Human Quarterly, Bennington Review, Mid-American Review, Cider Press Review, and Josephine Quarterly. She earned her PhD in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, teaches writing for the University of Colorado Denver, and is a contributing nonfiction editor at Copper Nickel .
Karuna Kasturi, Food Editor
Karuna brings her love of storytelling to the forefront, illuminating the connections between food, culture, and community. With over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, Karuna is dedicated to amplifying diverse and often forgotten voices and traditions within the world of food. Based in San Diego with roots in Philadelphia, Karuna is also an avid photographer, traveling between coasts and capturing the essence of life’s moments through her lens, celebrating the power of story to connect and inspire across cultures.
Samantha Fioriglio, Illustrator
After graduating from Temple University with a degree in Journalism, Samantha Fioriglio spent five years as an editor and designer for Digital First Media and as administrative assistant at Community Arts Phoenixville. She works as a freelance artist specializing in portraiture. A selection of her artwork can be found at artbyafan.com.
Chris Clother, Illustrator
Chris Clother is an artist and illustrator originally from Portland, Oregon, who works primarily with pen and pencil. He received his Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Portland State University in 2006, and his Master’s in Interdisciplinary Arts from Sierra Nevada College in 2019. He is an art professor at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, California. Chris has been illustrating for Cordella since its founding in 2014. He lives with his wife and three children in Dunsmuir, California. See more of his work at chrisclother.com.