About

Pile Press is an alternative publishing collective with a focus on local and limited edition print publications. We publish a bi-annual literary + arts journal featuring the works of women + non-binary creatives, as well as CHUNK, an Oregon centric lit + arts broadside paper. Within our publications readers will find a large variety of art, short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, photography and more. 

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SarahAnn Harvey
Founder + Editor

SarahAnn Harvey is a writer, artist and editor. She holds a BA in English and Writing from Portland State University. Her primary work is centered around publishing Pile’s bi-annual literary journal for women + non-binary creatives and CHUNK, an Oregon centric lit + arts paper. You can read her works in Papeachu Press, included in a book of poetry called There We Grew, Lucky Jefferson’s 365 Collection and in Borderline Press’ Common Ground (forthcoming 2025). She lives in Portland, Ore. with her cat Margot and can often be found curled up in one of her favorite local bookshops. 

April Hernandez,
Editor

April Hernandez is a Portland, Oregon native who, while not at her normal day job, also works as a writer, an editor, and a film producer. Her writing has appeared in The Wire’s Dream Magazine, Lucky Jefferson, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, and Tiny Spoon. In 2023 she was a featured reader at Powell’s Smallpresspalooza, where she read excerpts from her creative nonfiction chapbook, Getting to Know the Stoveman. Her film production credits include the feature Punched After the Fact (2023) and the short film The Barbarian (2025), the latter of which she is also a credited editor of. April is also an avid reader and can often be found with her nose in whatever book she is currently reading.



Tripp Watson,
CHUNK Editor

Tripp Watson is a writer, editor, and musician living in Portland, Oregon. He studied creative fiction in college and has a certificate in copyediting from UC San Diego. His stories can be found in various online magazines and tend to live in the realm of speculative fiction, sci-fi, or the supernatural. His love of writing stemmed from the joy of sharing ghost stories around campfires, and that can be felt in all of his endeavors. Catch him writing in the darkest corner of your local dive bar or playing on stage with his band, Strzyga.

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