Contributors
Hannah Berger
Hannah Berger is an artist and writer based in the Hudson Valley, NY. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Bard College and completed a residency at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in 2018. Her written work is forthcoming in CLOG and Grits Quarterly, and her murals are on permanent display at Freehand New York. Hannah is currently working on a series of functional and nonfunctional furniture sculptures and a food memoir.
River Garza
River Garza (b.1994) is a Los Angeles based visual Artist. Garza’s work draws on traditional Indigenous aesthetics, Southern California Indigenous maritime culture, Graffiti, Mexican culture, and Low Rider culture.
Chloé Hayat
Chloé Hayat is a Lebanese-American playwright and producer from Roosevelt Island, New York. Her work has been seen and developed as a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group, Space on Ryder Farm, Serials @ The Flea, Theater Accident, Ithaca College, Young Playwrights Inc., and SUNY Purchase. She is passionate about creating supportive and productive artistic environments that encourage the development of new plays and effective collaboration. Hayat co-founded After-School Special Theatre, served as the Director of the Residency at Breaking and Entering, and is currently the curator of the Hit and Run Reading Series with Theater Accident. She’s also a professional makeup artist, an amateur baker, a perfectly fine belly dancer, an aspiring burlesque performer, and the lucky owner of a piece of the Abraham Lincoln deathbed.
As a writer, Chloé is interested in making theater that highlights authentic representations of queer/Arab/women, and people dealing with intense trauma. Chloé is fascinated with the rediscovery, redefining, and rerecording of history, since the recording of history can be and has been a tool of colonizers, oppressors, and invaders. She uses a very wide range of found text in her work, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to dialogue from ghost hunting reality shows; from journals belonging to queer Lebanese Princesses, and Victorian doctors, to song titles and lyrics- an embarrassingly strange mix of Rod Stewart, Green Day, Poison, Nirvana and Jefferson Starship throughout the years.
Amos Marie
Amos Marie is a reluctant creative living in the wrong part of New York State. You can find him posting through it at @more.amos on instagram.
Christian Meola
Christian Meola is a theatre and film writer/director from Albany, New York. He graduated from Florida State University, earned a BFA in Theatre and Film Studies, and now lives in Los Angeles.
Christian works in both narrative fiction and visual art, exploring the boundaries between reality/illusion, artificiality/authenticity, high/low brow, straight/queer, etc. He's fascinated by human behavior under the influence of social constructs and how we define ourselves in the context of a larger culture. He gains great pleasure from disturbing genre conventions, playing with audience expectations, and causing mischief!
Christian’s work has screened at Sidewalk Film Festival, Adirondack Film Festival, Buried Alive, Sick 'n' Wrong, Sydney Underground, and The Electric Forest Music Festival. His films have also premiered online via NoBudge.com and Beyond the Short. Find more of Christian’s work on his website.
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips is a vintage dealer & collector based in Orlando, FL. He recently launched Toots Vintage after years of working in in NYC as a designer & model. You can follow Toots on Instagram.
Brianna Racoosin
Brianna Racoosin is a multimedia artist who uses her work to capture the realities of society's effects on identity and body image.
She seeks to disrupt the norms perpetuated by the media by simply bringing awareness to deeply ingrained, idealized standards. You can contact Bri here.
Gavi Romero
Gavi Romero, a first generation Mexican-American painter, recalls vivid memories of being in Kindergarten and copying Van Gogh’s Starry Night on black construction paper as a class assignment. From that point on, she took a fascination with the impressionist master and continued to copy his work with crayons and whatever paper was available to her. From that point forward, her purpose was made crystal clear and she has been creating ever since. See more of Gavi’s work here.
Deng ZiYan
Deng ZiYan is currently a doctorate student of Anthropology at East China Normal University in Shanghai, with a special interest in visual culture, semiotics, and fashion. Her works have appeared in Semiotic Review and Concrete Flux.