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Meet Our Contributors
Asher Cookson (they/he)
Managing Editor
Asher Cookson is a writer and student from Nova Scotia, Canada. Asher is currently working towards his BA in Creative Writing and English. When he’s not writing he can be found reading, painting or taking photos in the woods.
Jay Hogan (he/him)
Managing Editor
Jay Hogan is a writer and book reviewer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has written numerous articles of queer book recommendations for Buzzfeed, and recently published a piece on LGBTQ+ harm reduction with UK-based publication, volteface. In his free time, Jay can usually be found with his nose in a book, an iced coffee in his hand, or a cat in his lap.
Elyssa Tappero (she/her)
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Elyssa Tappero is radically queer, vocally pagan, and determined to leave you unsettled but intrigued. She writes a lot of weird shit inspired by the way the world works (and doesn’t) which you can find at onlyfragments.com
Amber Isaacs (she/her)
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Amber Isaacs is a queer writer and reader based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work has been featured in the "little living room" magazine. When not writing, she is reading and averages 200 books per year. She lives with two guinea pigs, four rats, and occasionally her partner.
B.A. O'Connell
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When a pivotal moment in B.A's youth caused them to turn to poetry with serious intent it changed their life. Today, they often pen four to eight poems a day. B. A's poetry and their blog (https://hellishrebukesystem.tumblr.com) focuses on poems and art centring around trauma, recovery, and mental health. B.A also touches on themes of abusive, obsessive, and unhealthy relationships and the pain of moving on from them.
BEE LB
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BEE LB is an array of letters, bound to impulse; a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, a single yellow wall in Michigan. They have been published in Revolute Lit, After the Pause, and Roanoke Review, among others. They are the 2022 winner of FOLIO’s Editor’s Prize for Poetry as well as the Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry. They are a poetry reader for Capsule Stories. their portfolio can be found at twinbrights.carrd.co
Briar Ripley Page
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Briar Ripley Page grew up in Appalachia and currently lives in London with their spouse, cats, and a friend or two. They are the author of Corrupted Vessels, a surreal southern gothic novella from swallow::tale press, and Body After Body, a self-published erotic dystopian body horror novel. Briar has two new books forthcoming in 2022-2023: A Chrysalis For the Emperor, a collection of short stories, and The False Sister, a dark novella for teens and adults. You can find Briar and their work online at briarripleypage.xyz.
Cat Green
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Cat Green is a Boston-based writer who lives in an intentional Quaker community and works for a large university. They write about historical memory, Catholic guilt, and messy transmascs. When they aren't writing, they like to buy quilting fabric they'll never use and take long walks along the Charles River. Cat maintains a newsletter on agnostic spirituality at ImaginaryNovelist.substack.com.
Chloe Henney (she/her)
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Chloe Henney (she/her) is a Politics graduate and aspiring writer from Birmingham, UK. She is a tea-obsessed empath who writes about life, love and self-reflection.
Clem Flowers (they/them)
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is a poet, soft-spoken southern transplant, low rent aesthete, pizza man lover, gorgeous monstrosity, & dramatic tenor living in a mountain's shadow in middle of nothing, Utah with their awesome wife & sweet kitty.
Hunter Burke (he/they)
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Hunter Burke (he/they) is a queer poet and performer originally from Friendswood, Texas. Their work has been previously published in Moist Poetry Journal, Passengers Journal, Impossible Archetype, The Beacon, and on poets.org. They were the recipient of the 2019 William C. Weathers Memorial Prize for Poetry. Hunter currently lives in New York City.
Irina Tall (Novikova)
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Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator, writer. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.
The first personal exhibition "My soul is like a wild hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man - a bird - Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week.
Jesse Gabriel
Contributor
Jesse Gabriel is a queer writer and photographer from South Louisiana, with an academic background in literature and creative writing. Horror and queer literature are their favorite genres, and they draw from their own experiences for much of their writing.
J.J. Steven (he/him)
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J.J. Steven is a trans, Scottish writer who loves monsters and creepy vibes. He grew up in the countryside, and fell in love with stories as a way to keep himself company. He's probably writing about resurrection this very moment. Most likely to be found writing in coffee shops or reading under blankets. He's shy on social media, but he's there.
Katie Lynn Johnston
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Katie Lynn Johnston is a creative writing graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Their work has appeared in Oyster River Pages, Hoxie Gorge Review, and Lavender Review, among others. You can find out more about them on their website, http://katielynnjohnston.com/
Lauren Ortego
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Lauren Ortego is a new writer making the transition from journalism to creative writing. She loves adding books to her TBR, purchasing them to add to her shelf, and then not touching them for another three to five business months. Lover of commas, parentheses, and writing in a
style of prose that would make her college English professor sick, Lauren is currently on a journey to rediscover her love of writing. She can be found on Twitter posting selfies once a week and on Instagram posting memes once a month, if you’re into that sort of chaotic internet presence.
muzzy dixton (he/him)
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muzzy dixton is a writer who enjoys garden parties and aspires to become a future Hollywood darling. writing with the spirit of a technicolor horror film, their work deals with angst, love, and body hunger.
Noll Griffin
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Noll Griffin is a digital illustrator and linoleum printmaker, living in Berlin, Germany. He is also a singer-songwriter with a few bedroom-recorded albums to his name. You can find more of his work on his socials.
Sadee Bee
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Sadee Bee is ever-evolving as living with mental illness is never a straight line and hopes to be a voice and advocate for those like her. She also speaks about her specific experiences regarding trauma and mental illness as a Black, Queer woman in Black spaces. She uses art as an outlet as well, creating whatever comes to mind, and is heavily drawn to speculative and out-of-this-world elements. She is inspired by strange dreams, magic, and creepy vibes.
Shaam L. Phanes (they/them)
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Shaam L. Phanes (they/them) is a trans non-binary Arab American artist, writer and multimedia storyteller. They are enchanted by the power of stories, and the beauty of the experience of stories through different media. Their work consists of fantasy, science
fiction/fantasy and retellings, and stories that explore question and mystery of the soul, as well as stories of intersectional identities, nature and the natural world, and our relationship with it and its (apathetic perhaps?) relationship with us. They are currently working on a novel series, THE WOLF’S REVENGE (release TBD), and a WEBTOON called THE CLEFT (coming to
WEBTOON Sept 16, 2022).
Suzanne Lavallee (she/her)
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Suzanne Lavallee (She/Her) is an eighteen-year-old writer based in a small town in New England. She is the co-founder of The Limelight Review, an online literary magazine for disabled & neurodivergent voices as well as a volunteer for The Authors of Tomorrow. She can be found writing, listening to Lana Del Rey, or on social media.
Theresa K. Jakobsen (they/them)
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Theresa K. Jakobsen (they/them) is a German creative, who after spending the pandemic on the remote Faroe Islands re-entered the colorful streets of Berlin city. The special challenges of living in another country as a chronically ill person were a propulsion to their creativity. Theresa creates mixed media art, photography and writes multilingual pieces that circle around the theme of identity and relationships in a digital age. Their works recently got published in Variety Pack Mag, Alien Buddha Zine and The Gamut Mag.
Savannah Wade
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Savannah Wade received her B.A. in Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from UNC Asheville in 2016. She has been previously published with Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, Things As They Aren't Magazine, and Shakespeare and Punk. Her creative works typically focus on historical narratives and the gothic, grotesque, and horror of the modern day.