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 Literary Magazine. As a dancer, Mira has performed both her own work and other choreographers' for a little over twenty years. Most recently, Mira was selected to perform in "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, Romona Ausubel and Jeffrey Eugenides. 

Eden Sugay
Poetry Editor

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Eden Sugay is the Poetry Editor for Apricity Press. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College and is working up the nerve to pursue her MFA, while working at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, CA.

Eden is a poet and (sporadic) dancer. Her writing highlights her voice as a queer woman of color and documents a constant, evolving journey navigating identity and relationships. Eden is inspired by the sun and the pink-faced, glossy-eyed details of honesty. Her work has appeared in The Walrus.

Poets and writers whom Eden possesses profound admiration for include Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Nayyirah Waheed, Roxanne Gay, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Ada Limón.

Olivia Mertz
Fiction Editor

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Olivia Mertz is the Fiction Editor for Apricity Press. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College and her work has appeared in The Walrus and Ginosko Literary Journal. She was a recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, a contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a resident at Art Farm in Marquette, NE. She is currently based out of San Francisco and is working on a novel. 

Recently, Olivia loved reading Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.

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 at 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.