Contributors

Contributors

Olivia Brandwein ’22 is a junior art studio major and French minor. When not writing works she wishes to be published, she enjoys scrawling in her LEGO journal and the notes app of her phone.

Nora Carrier ’23 is a sophomore politics major who loves the outdoors.

Margaret Connor ’23 is an English and film theater media double major with a particular interest in Americana and interpretation theory. She has spent the last year repressing her dim awareness of her own mortality by baking bread from scratch and reading the works of Franz Kafka.

Amandine De Simone ’24 studies Italian and English literature. Her main interests in life include languages, poetry, art history, flute, musical theater, and ice cream.

Ruby Henry FP ’23 is an multimedia artist based in Greenfield, MA. Her work is informed by motherhood, environmentalism, and intersectional feminism.

Peiyun Jiang ’21 lives in western Massachusetts, a half-a-world away from home, and is working on a collection of hybrid texts called Plowing Cloud.

Protiti Rasnaha Kamal ’20 is a young Bangladeshi poet and holds a BA in neuroscience from Mount Holyoke College. Her writings have been published in journals in Bangladesh and India. She lives in Dhaka.

Rebecca Kilroy ’23 is currently a sophomore at Mount Holyoke double majoring in English and Spanish. She writes fiction and poetry with a focus on wit, history, and the undiscovered past.

She is a prose editor for the Mount Holyoke Review, and this is her first undergraduate publication.

김효리 Hyo Rhi Kim ’21 grew up in, outside, and on the edges of Germany, Korea and Turtle Island. Questions of identity, belonging, and resiliency in oppressive social orders led them to study anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. They write to contemplate and give voice to the joys and pains of being alive.

Jenny Kirk ’24 is a 19-year-old traditional artist who works mainly with pastels. Kirk gets a lot of inspiration from the natural world, as well as children’s book illustrations.

Jean Klurfeld ’24 has loved to read and write for a long time, though she is often too busy knitting to get around to it. She likes languages, bugs, museums, writing letters, and hearing from those who connect with her poems.

Liz Lewis ’22 is a junior majoring in history and English. Her artwork tends to lean abstract and uses lots of color. In her free time she loves to draw, write short fiction, and look at photos of her dog Walter.

Avery Martin ’22 is a writer, reader, runner, very amateur guitar player, and maker of many objects. They write about beautiful and messy parts of living in a body in the world including queerness, sensation, and making and breaking relationships. They love windy weather and prefer bitter drinks over sweet ones.

Woodlief McCabe ’23 is a sophomore majoring in film and political science. They believe in radical love and the unharnessed power of cross-country public transit.

David Nejezchleba ’22 is a philosophy major and psychology minor. He is currently enjoying the warm weather and is excited that Big Time Rush was added to Netflix.

Nadia Niva ’21 is a poet living in Easthampton, MA. They try to emulate goo in their poems as well as their life.

Emma Nguyen ’24 is a Vietnamese immigrant and has been living in America for the last nine years. She has cherished writing creative prose and poetry since she was eight years old.

Embry V. O’Leary FP ’23 is an art studio major currently residing in western Massachusetts. Their work crosses several disciplines and mediums, in an effort to keep up with their naturally excitable mind. Their website is https://evalentino.art/

Meryl Phair ’21 is a journalism & media major with a politics minor who will be pursuing her MA in magazine & digital storytelling this fall at NYU. Phair is a triple Aries, her spirit vegetable is arugula, and her favorite weather condition is rain.

Ava Provolo ’22 writes poems, as well as dabbles in writing comedy for television. She can usually be found talking excitedly about music or embarking on another cooking/baking adventure. She is motivated by the alluring quality of parmesan cheese.

Elle Provolo ’22 has enjoyed creative writing since her third grade teacher told her she had potential as a writer. Her poems, in many ways, are attempts to explore her complex feelings. She loves dancing in her room and the simplicity of a plain cheese pizza.

Lily Reavis ’21 is a writer from Colorado who enjoys ghost stories, pinot grigio, and nice foggy blankets that lay close to the ground.

Regis Reed ’22 is a rising senior who is incredibly happy (and humbled!) to be featured in the Review’s second publication. Outside of writing, he enjoys going to bed early, forgetting to water his plants, and making food to share with others. He sincerely hopes you enjoy what’s been written and thanks all the MHR staff and other authors for their work putting together the piece!

Lu Yang ’21 believes that poetry is a way for her to communicate with other human beings at a more profound level. Through poetry, she finds a shared existence and beauty emerges through the pain like a luminous mist.