Mira Mason-Reader
​Founder & Editor-in-Chief

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Mira Mason-Reader is the founder and editor-in-chief of Apricity Press. She has a B.A. in English, Creative Writing and Dance from Mills College and has an M.A. in Creative Writing from University College Cork in Ireland. 

Mira is a poet and a dancer whose writing has been published in a variety of publications including, Cordella Magazine, ELKE "A Little Journal" and The Walrus. As a dancer, Mira has performed both her own work and other choreographers' for a little over twenty years. One of Mira's favorite recent dance performances was "Reading a Wave", a dance & art installation by Bay Area artist Laura Elayne Miller.  

Authors close to Mira's heart include e. e. cummings, Sandra Cisneros, Dorianne Laux, Ramona Ausubel, and Jeffrey Eugenides. 

Eden Sugay
Poetry Editor

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Eden Julia Sugay received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College and is the Poetry Editor for Apricity Press. 

Her writing highlights her voice as a queer woman of color and reflects on navigating identity and relationships, and their constantly evolving natures. Eden is inspired by the sun and the pink-faced, glossy-eyed details of honesty (read: she is a Cancer sun-Cancer rising-Aries moon, and a huge advocate of crying). Her work has appeared in The Walrus, Kissing Dynamite, and Folkways Press.

When Eden isn't frantically jotting half-formed thoughts on the edges of napkins or on her phone's notes, she likes to fill her time dancing, baking, and exploring new ways love can manifest.

Writers who quite literally give Eden life are Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Ocean Vuong, and Ada Limón.

megan jacobs
Fiction Editor

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Megan Jacobs is the Fiction Editor for Apricity Press. She received her B.A. in Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Mills College. 

Her work has appeared in The Walrus, Voices and Visions, and Apricity Press’s inaugural issue. She is the founder of Cultivate Happiness Now, a lifestyle blog that aims to provide tools and inspiration to help women create the happier lives they crave using a small step approach. She was recently a resident at Art Farm in Marquette, NE. She currently lives in Oakland and is working on a collection of short stories.

Most recently, Megan enjoyed reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk. Authors she loves and is inspired by include John Irving, Frank McCourt, Donald Barthelme, Edgar Allen Poe, J. Robert Lennon, and John Fante.

COLBY tAYLOR
Prose & poetry editor

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Colby Taylor is the Prose and Poetry Editor for Apricity Press.  She received her B.A. in Creative Writing - with an emphasis on fiction and playwriting - from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. 

Colby works as a Content Coordinator in Marketing.  She is based in Brooklyn and spends her days writing copy and producing videos.  She will always be working on short stories.

Recent influences of Colby’s include, but are not limited to: Vivian Gornick, Sheila Heti, Joshua Ferris, and Maggie Nelson.

Darian Volk
Visual Arts Editor

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Darian Volk is the Visual Arts Editor for Apricity Press. Darian has a B.A. in Art History from Portland State University and lives in Milwaukie, Oregon. 

Darian has been working in the visual arts field for a number of years, varying between the creation of her own works of art to teaching art to special needs students at the local high school she graduated from. Her personal art focuses on turning literary works into visual art pieces with a concentration on the human form. As an art history student, she has studied many art movements, her favorite being ancient art -especially Greek and Roman- as well as the Renaissance. 

Her favorite artists include Titian, Dürer and Cindy Sherman- specifically the “Sex Pictures” series. 




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Marcelo Kuna
Dance Editor

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Marcelo Kuna is the Dance Editor for Apricity Press. He graduated with a B.A. in Dance from the Communication of the Body Arts course at PUC-SP. He currently lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Dancer, singer and certified DanceAbility teacher (Montevideo, 2013), Marcelo is interested in exploring queer performativity, and the mixed abilities of (dis)abled bodies through the arts of the body. 

Recently, he created a concert called "Cancioneiro Queer" (Queer Songbook), which features LGBTQ/feminist songs from the repertoire of  Weimar Republic Cabaret, Opera, Broadway, Off Broadway, and Brazilian Musical Theatre. Together with his solo "Transviado (Ich bin die fesche Lola!)", the concert was presented as a part of the November/2016 SESC Palladium's program comprised of LGBTQ artists' work, in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. 

In 2016, he published a 'made for iBooks' ebook called "I Am The Naughty Lola!", currently available for purchase on the Apple Store's iBooks app. A feminist art manifesto that focuses on a male body dancing with camp sensibility, the book travels through recent Dance history, and Queer Theory to investigate possibilities for a queer dance.