February 10, 2021 - Issue No. 8 - 2020 - Contributors.
Kate Alsbury is a writer and marketing consultant. Her creative work has appeared in journals like Frogpond and Modern Haiku, along with several anthologies.
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Jade Brown is a fiction writer and poet based in New York City. Her work focuses on liberating women who are shoved in dehumanizing categories, with emphasis on women of color. Jade’s heavy use of allegories in her writing brings light to social construct, racial dynamic, and feminine opulence.
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Kellie Coppi, EDD grew up on Long Island and always dreamed of living in New York City. After getting accepted Early Admissions into NYU Tisch, that dream was achieved. But now, she has another dream, to move back to Long Island to be closer to family and out of the hustle and bustle.
With a fondness for everything Victorian and Turn of the century, Kellie finds time to delve into nostalgia when she’s not writing about people and the lack of common sense that too frequently permeates today’s world. Give her a dog and a book and she’s set.
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Mira feels more comfortable calling herself a person who writes than a writer. She is a recent immigrant to New York where she moved, against all good judgement, for adventure.
When she’s not struggling to get by, she’s struggling to get by. You can often find her at free events, or at her neighborhood Riverbank State Park, or you really can’t find her because she’s exploring some quiet corner in Upper Manhattan or New Jersey. Plus she’s lacking in social media.
Having spare time is the closest she comes to having a religion-- she uses it to make film and sound collages, take long walks, talk to strangers, and think about how weird it is to speak of oneself in third person. You can hear her sound collages at: https://soundcloud.com/mira-fisher.
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Kate Ginna was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., she returned home and enrolled at the William Esper Studio, where she is currently finishing her second and final year of the full-time program. She is also a member of The Woolgatherers Theater Group: www.thewoolgatherers.com. When she’s not taking classes at the studio or auditioning, Kate works as a creative assistant to two writers and writes her own material.
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Julia Hanson is a creative producer and writer living in Williamsburg. She studied English Literature and Poetry at Dickinson College.
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Elizabeth Lerman
Elizabeth Lerman is a creative writer based in New York City. A graduate from the University of Vermont, where she earned her B.A in Film Studies and English Literature, Elizabeth is passionate about forging strong female voices and diverse narratives.
In her writing she focuses on the significance of small moments and the space they hold in both her thoughts and those of her characters. Elizabeth currently lives in Brooklyn where she is working, slowly but surely, on her first novel.
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Rahil Najafabadi is a multimedia artist and writer from Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Most of her work includes the elements of her hometown in setting, theme, and style. She hopes to live in New York and pursue a career in creative writing.
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Writer, artist, educator, collaborator, curious citizen of the world, humble student of life, seeker of light, documenter of healing. Rebecca Nison is the author and illustrator of If We’d Never Seen the Sea. Her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have been published in a number of magazines and journals.
As a part-time assistant professor at Parsons School of Design, Rebecca teach students the power of discovering their voices through writing. I received my MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from The New School and my BFA in Creative Writing, with a minor in Visual Arts, from Emerson College.
She recently trained in Usui Reiki Levels 1 and 2 with Aki Hirata-Baker and Manu del Prete. She will be studying hypnotherapy with Shauna Cummins at the Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis in 2021.
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Samuel C. O’Brient is a Freelance Journalist and Content Strategist. A native of Western Massachusetts, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & Political Science from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Science in International Politics from Trinity College Dublin.
Samuel describes himself as a “hopeless news junkie” who has covered a wide variety of topics from college sustainability movements to the global effects of the trade war but whose primary interest will always be found at the intersections of politics and the media.
In non-pandemic times, he can be found writing in coffee shops. Samuel’s has been featured on venues such as The University Times, TUN (The University Network), and U.S. Resist News. He currently serves as Political Editor for Curiosity Shots and blogs at MySideoftheAisle.com.
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Alexandra Pauley is the author of Semi-Sweet Sarcophagus, Wacky Wonders Chocolate Boutique Cookbook, On The Verge Of Being Homeless: A Guide To Wise Decisions, The ‘New Homeless’, and other works of fiction and non-fiction.
An advocate to the homeless population, she is currently volunteering with Sleepy Herd, Inc. Alexandra has a B.A. in Psychology, and is a Certified Science of Happiness Specialist with Hapacus.
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Robin Romeo calls Harlem home. He earned a BA from Vermont College, where he studied literature and creative writing. His poems are forthcoming in the Caribbean Writer and he was a Brooklyn Poets’ fellow and Yawper of the Year for 2020.
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Arthur Russell lives in Nutley, New Jersey, where he works as a lawyer. He is the winner of both Providence Fine Arts Work Center and Syracuse University fellowships as well as Brooklyn Poets’ YAWP Poem of the Year for 2015 and YAWPER of the Year for 2016.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Paterson Literary Review, Prelude, Yellow Chair Journal, Muse-Pie Press, Shot Glass Journal, Brooklyn Poetry Anthology (2017), the Red Wheelbarrow #9, and Wilderness House Literary Review.
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Sarah is a New Yorker at soul, teaching English and studying film in Uruguay. Doing all the things to become a multimedia journalist. She published her first book, “core collection: poems about eating disorders” with Adelaide Books in 2019. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19663814.Sarah_E_Simon Instagram: @ssimon8; Twitter: @smileformebabyg.
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Jamie Soltis is an actor with a special affinity for comedy. She has appeared in shows like Difficult People and the Blacklist and currently works with the Episcopal Actors Guild, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides charitable assistance and career support for performers of all faith, and none. Via Blog O’ Beer (Can Beer Make me Friends?), she writes about bars and restaurants in and around New York, NY.
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Karlton Miko Tyack was born and raised in West Los Angeles. He spent summers with family all over New England and studied art history in Massachusetts. Consequently, he’s a fan of the Patriots as well as the Dodgers and the Kings. He also loves the outdoors, dogs, riding horses, and Christmas time.
Karlton worked in the art gallery world for ten years, and moved to New York for an opportunity with one of the city’s auction houses. New York has quickly become his favorite city. He resides on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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Nawi Ukabiala is a public international law practitioner and associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.
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