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Brendan Allen is a recent graduate of Temple University's MFA in poetry. He now lives in Indiana, where he teaches writing as a professor at Trine University. He's the creator of CentoQuest, a choose-your-own-adventure, poem-generating video game, and his poetry has recently appeared in Keith LLC, DIAGRAM, and Prolit.
Watch Brendan's live reading for Issue 7.
Aaron Anstett's most recent collection is This Way to the Grand As-Is. A new collection, Late-Stage Everything, will appear in 2022.
Andrew Hudson Barter lives and writes in Portland, Oregon with his husband and their cats. His poetry has previously appeared in The MacGuffin and California Quarterly.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Mac Bowers is currently spending her time gallivanting across Scotland as she earns her Masters in Creative Writing. When she isn't experiencing frequent bouts of existential crisis, she enjoys writing weird stories, playing rugby, and sipping on far too many cups of coffee. Other works of hers can be found in F(r)iction, The Lindenwood Review, Fudoki Magazine, and Door Is A Jar, among others. Her online ramblings can also be found on Twitter @macbwrs.
Casey Cantrell is a writer, journalist, and podcaster based in Los Angeles, CA. He loves Star Trek: TNG too much for his own good.
Angela ‘Giola’ Cassar’s work involves explorations about the human condition, continually questioning who we are to ourselves and to others. Since its inception, she has been teaching the BA (Hons) in Photography course at MCAST. Photography is her main medium, while also making use of the moving image when the need arises. In 2019 she published a photo-book, "Tessie", in collaboration with writer Glen Calleja. Cassar’s latest project was "Bjuda", an interdisciplinary publication and exhibition with Leanne Ellul and Kenneth Sacco. Cassar holds a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photography from the University for the Creative Arts, UK and an MA in Photography, from the University of Brighton, UK. Throughout the past years, she has exhibited and published her work in Malta, London, Brussels and Brighton. Cassar has also been shortlisted for the Belfast Photo festival 2022. In March 2022, her photographic essay accompanying Leanne Ellul's essay was published in "Are we Europe's", Designing (for) Human’s issue.
Amy Cook (she/her) just finished the 2021 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Creative Nonfiction. Recent and upcoming publications: Queer Families Anthology, Bird Bath Magazine. She is the Legal Administrative Manager of Lambda Legal. She was a charter member of the Youth Pride Chorus, as well as a singing and associate member of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, with Distinction, from Rider University. Outside of her professional work, Cook is an award winning lyricist (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, BMI Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement) and a marathoner. She is married to lyricist Patrick Cook.
Carmen Cornue lives and works in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Southword, the Atlanta Review, Dutch Kills Press, Mad Gleam Press and on the podcast, Beyond the Screams. In 2021, she was selected for the YBCA Guaranteed Income for Artists program sponsored by the city of San Francisco. In 2015 she co-founded the literary collective Spleen to create and champion radical documents of desire written by queer women. You can find out more about Carmen at carmencornue.com.
Watch Carmen's live reading for Issue 7.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently “a child walks in the dark”, (December 2021, Harbor Editions). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.
James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush, Corporeal, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Rust + Moth, Yes Poetry and Cobra Milk Mag. They live in upstate New York.
Teresa Fellion founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after choreographing independently since 2004. Teresa was named the Artistic Liason between Cameroon and the U.S. by President Paul Biya while performing with the National Ballet du Cameroun at the National Soccer Cup Finals. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip Costa, and Martha Bowers, and performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, and Megan Boyd. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English Literature with a dance minor from NYU as a Merit Scholar. She received Choreographic Fellowships from SummerStages Dance Festival, ICA Boston, and an American Dance Guild Fellowship for Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. BodyStories has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, University of Florida, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), NYU, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park Summer Stage, BDF Edinburgh at EICC, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at Gibney Dance Center, NY City Center, Dixon Place, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa University, Franco-American Cultural Center, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 14th St. Y, Merce Cunningham Theatre, The Dance Complex, Southampton Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and in concerts with Phish. More info is available at bodystoriesfellion.org.
Audrey Forbes is a wordsmith and artist; whether through writing, painting, photography, or poetry, she sees all art as a form of creation. She received her B.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in English. Her poetry has been featured at the Utah Arts Festival, Kayenta Arts Foundation’s Poetry Under the Stars, Write About Now, Downtown Summerlin and Saturday Snaps. In 2019, she competed on the Battle Born Slam team at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago. Currently, she is a content and grant writer for The Love Yourself Foundation.
Rochelle Germond holds an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Gravel, and The Coachella Review, among others. Originally from Florida, she currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and their extensive collection of coffee mugs.
Justin Groppuso-Cook is a Writer-in-Residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project, and a Poetry Reader at West Trade Review. His poems are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and Luna Luna Magazine among others. He received the 2021 Haunted Waters Press Award for Poetry. His chapbook Our Illuminated Pupils was selected as a semi-finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. This summer he will be a resident at Carve Magazine’s Writing Workshops Paris. More information can be found on his website, www.sunnimani.com.
Watch Justin's live reading for Issue 7.
Lydia Hagen recently graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. “The Mother” is her second publication. She is currently channeling her love for writing into a career in editing and publishing in Oregon.
Desirée Jung is an artist born in Brazil, and adopted by Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. She has also participated in several artist residencies. Her education includes a film degree from Vancouver Film School, a BFA in Creative Writing, an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature, all from the University of British Columbia. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found in her website: www.desireejung.com.
Matthew Klane is co-editor at Flim Forum Press. His books include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013) and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press, an e-book My is online at Fence Digital, and a chapbook Poetical Sketches is available from The Magnificent Field. Recent collages can be found online in Afternoon Visitor, Breakwater Review, Dream Pop, and Sixth Finch. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. See: matthewklane.com.
Christopher Kwapich is a support manager and avid fisherman.
Kristin LaFollette is a writer, artist, and photographer and serves as the Art Editor at Mud Season Review. Her artwork and photography have been featured in Posit, Coffin Bell, West Trestle Review, Spry Literary Journal, and The Magnolia Review, among others. You can learn more about her work at kristinlafollette.com.
DS Maolalai has been nominated nine times for Best of the Net and seven times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019).
G.L. Maverick (she/they) is a being, just like you, and would like for you to remember that your days are numbered... but there's no sense in counting down. She is an aspiring novelist and potential chapbook compiler who lives with her family in Virginia. You can find them at twitter.com/gracen_lee_mav.
Keely McLavin is an Irish based multi-disciplinary artist with a focus in painting and digital work. Keely is currently in the 3rd year of their (BA) Fine Art degree.
Meuffy (“MUFF-ee”) is a self-taught, Seattle-based painter whose work predominantly uses expressive, dancing figures to explore themes of mysticism and quantum physics. She began painting to process her questions and fears surrounding consciousness and mortality. Working primarily in oils, her colorful and intuitive art practice contrasts her methodical work as a lawyer. Meuffy's recent work explores the spiritual and scientific connection between everyone and everything in this Universe. Meuffy casts her feminine and ethereal figures as modern mystics, interacting with the elements, transcending the human ego, and enjoying an ineffable yet approachable connection to the Universe.
Watch Meuffy's live reading for Issue 7.
Simona Nastac is an award-winning poet and art curator based in London. In 2017 she published The Depressing Colour of Honey (Tracus Arte, Bucharest), which won the Alexandru Mușina Prize “The King of the Morning” for poetry debuts. Her work has been featured in Asymptote Journal, Harana Poetry, The Blue Nib, Tears in the Fence, Portmanteau LDN, En Bloc, and Black Bough Poetry among others. Since 2016 she has been the curator of the experimental poetry night at the Bucharest International Festival of Poetry. She can be found at www.simonanastac.com.
RUNA was born and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently undertaking a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. She dedicates not only to painting, but also to writing and photography in travel chronicles. The three can be seen on her website: www.rutenorte.com.
C. Hiatt O’Connor has received multiple honors for his poetry, including The Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His work is published or forthcoming in Blueline, The Banyan Review, The Academy of American Poets (poets.org), deLuge Literary and Arts Journal, ERGON, GRIFFEL, High Shelf Press, Lucky Jefferson, and more. Currently a poetry reader for the Adroit Journal, he lives and writes on a Maryland farm.
Leticia Priebe Rocha received her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami at the age of 9 and currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Rattle, The Awakenings Review, Arkana, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter @LetiPriebeRocha and on Instagram @letiprieberochapoems.
Watch Leticia's live reading for Issue 7.
Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 6 books of poetry. Her most recent book is GLYPHS (available in May 2022 from Deerbrook Editions). She is also the author of BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY, available from Deerbrook Editions, NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE ( from Deerbrook Editions), WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press). Newberry has been included in many literary magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative.
Natalie Rusinova is an expressionist artist from Russia. In her work, she pays special attention to the versatility of color, contrast and bright accents. She draws draws colorful landscapes depicting emotions and impressions. Natalie is inspired by natural phenomena and, having guided through the prism of her imagination, captures them on canvas with the help of oil paints, endowing with unreal, magical properties.
Nora Shychuk is a writer living in New York City. She attended University College Cork in Ireland from 2015-2016 and obtained an MA in Creative Writing. In 2018, she was the recipient of a full alumni award to attend the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik.
Audrey Williams is an oil painter based in Dallas, Texas who uses the female portrait to challenge stereotypes in art, media, and culture. She is a graduating senior at the University of Texas at Austin where she will receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art. Troubled by the elitist tendencies of the professional art scene, she hopes to bridge the world of visual art to a wider population. She seeks to create imagery that resonates with all, regardless of age, education, or experience.
Melinda Wilson is a poet living in the Marble Hill section of The Bronx.
Watch Brendan's live reading for Issue 7.
Aaron Anstett's most recent collection is This Way to the Grand As-Is. A new collection, Late-Stage Everything, will appear in 2022.
Andrew Hudson Barter lives and writes in Portland, Oregon with his husband and their cats. His poetry has previously appeared in The MacGuffin and California Quarterly.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Mac Bowers is currently spending her time gallivanting across Scotland as she earns her Masters in Creative Writing. When she isn't experiencing frequent bouts of existential crisis, she enjoys writing weird stories, playing rugby, and sipping on far too many cups of coffee. Other works of hers can be found in F(r)iction, The Lindenwood Review, Fudoki Magazine, and Door Is A Jar, among others. Her online ramblings can also be found on Twitter @macbwrs.
Casey Cantrell is a writer, journalist, and podcaster based in Los Angeles, CA. He loves Star Trek: TNG too much for his own good.
Angela ‘Giola’ Cassar’s work involves explorations about the human condition, continually questioning who we are to ourselves and to others. Since its inception, she has been teaching the BA (Hons) in Photography course at MCAST. Photography is her main medium, while also making use of the moving image when the need arises. In 2019 she published a photo-book, "Tessie", in collaboration with writer Glen Calleja. Cassar’s latest project was "Bjuda", an interdisciplinary publication and exhibition with Leanne Ellul and Kenneth Sacco. Cassar holds a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photography from the University for the Creative Arts, UK and an MA in Photography, from the University of Brighton, UK. Throughout the past years, she has exhibited and published her work in Malta, London, Brussels and Brighton. Cassar has also been shortlisted for the Belfast Photo festival 2022. In March 2022, her photographic essay accompanying Leanne Ellul's essay was published in "Are we Europe's", Designing (for) Human’s issue.
Amy Cook (she/her) just finished the 2021 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Creative Nonfiction. Recent and upcoming publications: Queer Families Anthology, Bird Bath Magazine. She is the Legal Administrative Manager of Lambda Legal. She was a charter member of the Youth Pride Chorus, as well as a singing and associate member of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, with Distinction, from Rider University. Outside of her professional work, Cook is an award winning lyricist (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, BMI Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement) and a marathoner. She is married to lyricist Patrick Cook.
Carmen Cornue lives and works in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Southword, the Atlanta Review, Dutch Kills Press, Mad Gleam Press and on the podcast, Beyond the Screams. In 2021, she was selected for the YBCA Guaranteed Income for Artists program sponsored by the city of San Francisco. In 2015 she co-founded the literary collective Spleen to create and champion radical documents of desire written by queer women. You can find out more about Carmen at carmencornue.com.
Watch Carmen's live reading for Issue 7.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently “a child walks in the dark”, (December 2021, Harbor Editions). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.
James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush, Corporeal, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Rust + Moth, Yes Poetry and Cobra Milk Mag. They live in upstate New York.
Teresa Fellion founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after choreographing independently since 2004. Teresa was named the Artistic Liason between Cameroon and the U.S. by President Paul Biya while performing with the National Ballet du Cameroun at the National Soccer Cup Finals. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip Costa, and Martha Bowers, and performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, and Megan Boyd. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English Literature with a dance minor from NYU as a Merit Scholar. She received Choreographic Fellowships from SummerStages Dance Festival, ICA Boston, and an American Dance Guild Fellowship for Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. BodyStories has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, University of Florida, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), NYU, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park Summer Stage, BDF Edinburgh at EICC, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at Gibney Dance Center, NY City Center, Dixon Place, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa University, Franco-American Cultural Center, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 14th St. Y, Merce Cunningham Theatre, The Dance Complex, Southampton Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and in concerts with Phish. More info is available at bodystoriesfellion.org.
Audrey Forbes is a wordsmith and artist; whether through writing, painting, photography, or poetry, she sees all art as a form of creation. She received her B.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in English. Her poetry has been featured at the Utah Arts Festival, Kayenta Arts Foundation’s Poetry Under the Stars, Write About Now, Downtown Summerlin and Saturday Snaps. In 2019, she competed on the Battle Born Slam team at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago. Currently, she is a content and grant writer for The Love Yourself Foundation.
Rochelle Germond holds an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Gravel, and The Coachella Review, among others. Originally from Florida, she currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and their extensive collection of coffee mugs.
Justin Groppuso-Cook is a Writer-in-Residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project, and a Poetry Reader at West Trade Review. His poems are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and Luna Luna Magazine among others. He received the 2021 Haunted Waters Press Award for Poetry. His chapbook Our Illuminated Pupils was selected as a semi-finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. This summer he will be a resident at Carve Magazine’s Writing Workshops Paris. More information can be found on his website, www.sunnimani.com.
Watch Justin's live reading for Issue 7.
Lydia Hagen recently graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. “The Mother” is her second publication. She is currently channeling her love for writing into a career in editing and publishing in Oregon.
Desirée Jung is an artist born in Brazil, and adopted by Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. She has also participated in several artist residencies. Her education includes a film degree from Vancouver Film School, a BFA in Creative Writing, an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature, all from the University of British Columbia. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found in her website: www.desireejung.com.
Matthew Klane is co-editor at Flim Forum Press. His books include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013) and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press, an e-book My is online at Fence Digital, and a chapbook Poetical Sketches is available from The Magnificent Field. Recent collages can be found online in Afternoon Visitor, Breakwater Review, Dream Pop, and Sixth Finch. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. See: matthewklane.com.
Christopher Kwapich is a support manager and avid fisherman.
Kristin LaFollette is a writer, artist, and photographer and serves as the Art Editor at Mud Season Review. Her artwork and photography have been featured in Posit, Coffin Bell, West Trestle Review, Spry Literary Journal, and The Magnolia Review, among others. You can learn more about her work at kristinlafollette.com.
DS Maolalai has been nominated nine times for Best of the Net and seven times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019).
G.L. Maverick (she/they) is a being, just like you, and would like for you to remember that your days are numbered... but there's no sense in counting down. She is an aspiring novelist and potential chapbook compiler who lives with her family in Virginia. You can find them at twitter.com/gracen_lee_mav.
Keely McLavin is an Irish based multi-disciplinary artist with a focus in painting and digital work. Keely is currently in the 3rd year of their (BA) Fine Art degree.
Meuffy (“MUFF-ee”) is a self-taught, Seattle-based painter whose work predominantly uses expressive, dancing figures to explore themes of mysticism and quantum physics. She began painting to process her questions and fears surrounding consciousness and mortality. Working primarily in oils, her colorful and intuitive art practice contrasts her methodical work as a lawyer. Meuffy's recent work explores the spiritual and scientific connection between everyone and everything in this Universe. Meuffy casts her feminine and ethereal figures as modern mystics, interacting with the elements, transcending the human ego, and enjoying an ineffable yet approachable connection to the Universe.
Watch Meuffy's live reading for Issue 7.
Simona Nastac is an award-winning poet and art curator based in London. In 2017 she published The Depressing Colour of Honey (Tracus Arte, Bucharest), which won the Alexandru Mușina Prize “The King of the Morning” for poetry debuts. Her work has been featured in Asymptote Journal, Harana Poetry, The Blue Nib, Tears in the Fence, Portmanteau LDN, En Bloc, and Black Bough Poetry among others. Since 2016 she has been the curator of the experimental poetry night at the Bucharest International Festival of Poetry. She can be found at www.simonanastac.com.
RUNA was born and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently undertaking a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. She dedicates not only to painting, but also to writing and photography in travel chronicles. The three can be seen on her website: www.rutenorte.com.
C. Hiatt O’Connor has received multiple honors for his poetry, including The Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His work is published or forthcoming in Blueline, The Banyan Review, The Academy of American Poets (poets.org), deLuge Literary and Arts Journal, ERGON, GRIFFEL, High Shelf Press, Lucky Jefferson, and more. Currently a poetry reader for the Adroit Journal, he lives and writes on a Maryland farm.
Leticia Priebe Rocha received her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami at the age of 9 and currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Rattle, The Awakenings Review, Arkana, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter @LetiPriebeRocha and on Instagram @letiprieberochapoems.
Watch Leticia's live reading for Issue 7.
Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 6 books of poetry. Her most recent book is GLYPHS (available in May 2022 from Deerbrook Editions). She is also the author of BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY, available from Deerbrook Editions, NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE ( from Deerbrook Editions), WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press). Newberry has been included in many literary magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative.
Natalie Rusinova is an expressionist artist from Russia. In her work, she pays special attention to the versatility of color, contrast and bright accents. She draws draws colorful landscapes depicting emotions and impressions. Natalie is inspired by natural phenomena and, having guided through the prism of her imagination, captures them on canvas with the help of oil paints, endowing with unreal, magical properties.
Nora Shychuk is a writer living in New York City. She attended University College Cork in Ireland from 2015-2016 and obtained an MA in Creative Writing. In 2018, she was the recipient of a full alumni award to attend the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik.
Audrey Williams is an oil painter based in Dallas, Texas who uses the female portrait to challenge stereotypes in art, media, and culture. She is a graduating senior at the University of Texas at Austin where she will receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art. Troubled by the elitist tendencies of the professional art scene, she hopes to bridge the world of visual art to a wider population. She seeks to create imagery that resonates with all, regardless of age, education, or experience.
Melinda Wilson is a poet living in the Marble Hill section of The Bronx.