Contributors
SUNSHINE BARBITO
Sunshine Barbito is a fiction writer. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her short stories have been showcased in many literary magazines, including "Sleepover” (Fecund Magazine) and “Jump for Heart” (Prometheus Dreaming). Previously, Sunshine worked as a freelance editor on several titles, including The Umbrella Academy and Fight Club 3. Her first graphic novel, Mafiosa, is available now at your local comics shop. Sunshine studied screenwriting at the New York Film Academy. To Sunshine, fiction is everything.
Alyssa Bilyeu
Alyssa Bilyeu is a visual artist raised in the verdant splendor of Oregon, who now lives and works in the Portland Metro area. She seeks to create a dialogue between audiences and the forces that move our lives, both natural and artificial.
Samantha Coughlan
Born and bloomed in New York City, surrounded by the elaborate architecture of Brooklyn brownstones covered by ivy and rose overgrowth, as well as the cultural diversity of Queens. Raised by a family of artists, writers, musicians, and craftsmen, she draws inspiration from the city's hidden streets, relics of the past, rock & roll, and the hedonistic period of every era. Samantha has been working as a freelance stylist, creative director and content creator for over 8 years.
ANDI DOLEO
Andi Doleo is an actor, writer, model, and director based in Los Angeles.
Olivia von Koeckeritz
Olivia is a writer and photographer residing in Pennsylvania. She is the winner of The Philip and Azalea Myers Award for Creativity in English at McDaniel College. Olivia works to marry image and text to realize ethereal and mythic connections between words and still images.
Sara Mae
Sara Mae is a high fem writer and style witch raised on the Chesapeake Bay. They are a 2022 Open Mouth attendee, a 2022 Tin House Summer Workshops alum, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference scholar. Their work appears in or is forthcoming from American Literary Review, Underblong, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out via Game Over Books. They write shimmery rock music as The Noisy. They are currently an MFA Candidate at UT Knoxville and an Associate Poetry Editor for Grist Literary Journal.
Sophia Martinez
Sophia is a multimedia artist with studies in fine arts and fashion design. She spends her time finding inspiration in nature, the streets of NYC, vintage man-made objects, and her Latin cultural background. Like others, Sophia has a lot of traumas she’s carried throughout her life releasing them in bursts of creativity. Her method of detoxifying herself from this pain is by creating and producing. She hopes to make beautiful things from her pain bringing joy to others with her creations. In this way, she tries to reach others as the introvert that she is. Everything she makes is self-sourced with sustainability in mind and handmade with great craftsmanship from years of practice. The name behind CHAVARRI is deeply inspired by the previous ancestors of the artist.
Chelsea Rozansky
Chelsea Rozansky is a writer and critic from Toronto, currently based in Montreal. Most recently, Rozansky was the Writer in Residence at C Magazine, where she conducted an archival research project questioning notability, collective authorship, and the labor rendered anonymous in the production of artistic discourse. In 2020, Rozansky was awarded Canadian Art's Editorial Residency.
Brandon Sward
Brandon Sward is an artist, writer, and doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, quarterfinalist for the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, shortlisted for Disquiet International’s Literary Prize, and an honorable mention and finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Smart Museum, Carr Center Contemporary, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Kleinert/James Center, In/Passing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art–Chicago. He’s participated in the film festival Release Me through Single Channel VT and his photographs and prints have appeared in Anima Loci and Under the Bridge, respectively.