Announcing the Next Editor of COUNTERCLOCK

Rachel Lu. Photo: Nancy Ford.

COUNTERCLOCK, home to COUNTERCLOCK Journal, PATCHWORK, and the Arts Collective, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Lu, formerly Managing Editor, as the next editor to succeed Sarah Feng, who has overseen the organization as editor from 2019 to 2022. 

Lu has formerly served as editor of Red Weather and has had editorial experience working at Lantern Review, Folio Literary Agency, and McIntosh & Otis. In conjunction with Feng, she has helped found the COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective. She is a two-time recipient of the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Poetry and winner of the Kellogg Essay Prize. Lu has received grants from the Levitt Public Affairs Center. She is a graduate of Hamilton College. 

“Rachel will sustain and honor COUNTERCLOCK’s desire to publish experimental and interdisciplinary work,” says Feng, former Editor-in-Chief of COUNTERCLOCK. “I trust her critical yet creative editor's eye and know she will continue to push the content that we publish in our issues to the best it can be.”

“COUNTERCLOCK has always been, at its heart, an organization that strives to challenge the boundaries of various artistic disciplines and to show how poetry and art and music all inform each other,” Lu says. “I’ve seen how COUNTERCLOCK, under Sarah’s direction, has grown and expanded into the interdisciplinary organization it is today. I look forward to expanding that vision, and I’m incredibly excited for the future of COUNTERCLOCK—and for readers to follow and contribute along the way.” 

COUNTERCLOCK was founded in the summer of 2017 by Rachel Sucher, Claire S. Lee, and Sarah Feng, who met in an online writing studio and wanted to create a literary magazine that published voices they found honest, innovative, daring, and true to experiences not often highlighted in traditional media. They have been recognized by the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. Over the years, COUNTERCLOCK has evolved to become more than just a literary arts magazine. Among other initiatives, it hosts an interdisciplinary arts fellowship, COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective, a film-poetry adaptation program, PATCHWORK, and publishes cultural commentary, book reviews, and interviews on its blog, Counterpoint. 

For further inquiries, please contact counterclockjournal@gmail.com.