About the

Contributors

Julian Ansorge is a junior at Brown studying Literary Arts and English. He’s from Brooklyn and his poems have also appeared in Hanging Loose.

Lila Jean Banker is a sophomore at Oberlin College majoring in Creative

Writing with interests in English and History as well. When she’s not in Ohio, she splits her time living in Brooklyn, NY, and Vinalhaven, ME. Outside of writing, Lila works in a pottery studio and enjoys knitting, cooking pasta, and watching basketball.

Hannah Bashkow (she/hers) is a senior at Brown studying Visual Art. She is an Honors candidate and Department Undergraduate Leader, and loves talking with other students about their art. Hannah also likes crocheting, cooking, and the Grateful Dead.

Jaden Bleier studies poetry and printmaking at Brown University. Her works have appeared in Stonecoast, The Indy, In Parentheses, and Maudlin House and have been granted Scholastic Art and Writing awards. Jaden enjoys spending time in the sunlight, and you can find her online at jadenbleier.com.

Guanhua Chen is originally from China. He did his first bachelor’s at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, majoring in Finance. He changed direction after that and went to Los Angeles to study physics at Santa Monica College for three years. He transferred to the University of Miami and studied for another three years, eventually getting his second bachelor’s in pure physics, core mathematics, and studio art. After his undergraduate study, he has continued with his physics journey and is a first year masters student at Brown. In terms of art, he mainly does painting and drawing. He is currently interested in contemporary art without a very specific direction.

Mick Chivers is a sculptor and commercial fisherman who uses a variety of sculptural mediums inspired by bone to fabricate abstract objects celebrating both natural form and the underpinning fractal framework of our macroscopic world. His work explores the ways that the periodic ordering of molecular and atomic interactions manifest into systems of life, decay, waste, reuse, harvestry, and husbandry. Through these sculptures, Mick aims to celebrate the lives of animals consumed to sustain populations while appreciating the inutterable beauty of skeletal forms and grappling with his long-standing participation in regional commercial fishing operations.

Aurelia Cowan is a senior at Brown University studying History of Art and English. She lives in London, England, and outside of writing she sews, sculpts, and makes jewelry.

Amelia Cumming is a student in the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program studying Environmental Science and Illustration. She is a big fan of words and images.

Marguerite Dorian (1924-2021) was an illustrator, writer, translator, botanist, and poet born in Bucharest. Marguerite was educated at the University of Bucharest, the Sorbonne in Paris, Radclife Institute at Harvard, and Brown University in Providence where she lived beginning in 1952. Daughter of Jewish Romanian poet Emil Dorian, she published her first collection of poetry, Ierbar, at 21 years old.

Anna Forrest Fischler is a sophomore in Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and is originally from southwest Florida. She works with a range of media but favors oil paint and gouache specifically. Anna historically works in semi-realism but has recently branched out into more abstract and expressive approaches to her work. She is heavily infuenced by natural phenomena, interpersonal connections, and memory.

Robert Guard has been published in Harpur Palate, Amoskeag, Chaffin Journal, California Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, DASH, GW, Nimrod Nixes Mate Review, Poet Lore, riverSedge, and others. Robert attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and studied under David Baker and Rosanna Warren. He worked for thirty-five years in advertising as a writer and creative director. Robert teaches yoga and has an energy healing practice. He also conducts workshops on various health and fitness topics including meditation and stress reduction.

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has recent work in Landlocked, RipRap, Swamp Ape Review, among others. He is a Senior Lecturer of literature at Georgia College & State University.

Betsy Martin is a visual artist who has advanced degrees in Russian language and literature. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, The Briar Cliff Review, The Broken Plate, Cloudbank, Crack the Spine, Delmarva Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly (Best of the Net nomination), Evening Street Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Juked, Litbreak Magazine, Louisville Review, The Penmen Review, Pennsylvania English, Pisgah Review, Pudding Magazine, Slab, Straight Forward, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Weber—The Contemporary West, and many others.

Henry Koskoff is a fourth-year Creative Writing and Dance major at Emory University. Right now he is working on an autobiographical thesis collection about privilege, maleness, and disillusionment. His greatest poetic idols include James Tate, David Berman, and Louise Glück.

Caroline Maun is an associate professor and Chair of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where they teach creative writing and American literature. Their volumes of poetry include The Sleeping (Marick Press, 2006), What Remains (Main Street Rag, 2013), and three chapbooks, Cures and Poisons and Greatest Hits, published by Pudding House Press, and Accident, published by Alice Greene & Co. They have also been published in Asheville, Poetry Review, The Bear River Review, Bitterzoet Magazine, The Cape Rock, Crack the Spine, Delmarva Review, El Portal, Euphony, Evening Street Review, Failbetter, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Laurel Review, The MacGuffin, The Main Street Rag, The Midwest Quarterly, Pennsylvania English, Mount Hope Magazine, Third Wednesday, The Opiate, Paragon Journal, Peninsula Poets, South Carolina Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Sweet Tree Review, Waving Hands Review, Word For/Word, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Eleven Eleven, among others.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of 10 books of poems, most recently THE SKY CONTAINS THE PLANS, published by Wave Books. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He’s won the Hopwood Award, the Believer Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He was a co-founder of Fence Magazine and Fence Books, and one of his tattoos has appeared in two books of literary tattoos. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at NYU.

Alondra Romero is a student at Bowdoin College majoring in Psychology and Latin American Studies with a love for the medium of printmaking as a creation process. Having a mom as an artist has pushed her to look at life through a lens of color and design. Most of her artwork focuses on the interactions between the human world and the natural one in an efort to remove humans from their hierarchical pedestal and portray them as existing in harmony with their surroundings.

Lola Simon is a junior at Brown studying visual art and history. She is from Brooklyn, NY.

Livia Weiner is a junior at Brown University studying Visual Art and Environmental Studies. She has recently discovered a love for oil painting.

Clementine Williams is a multimedia artist from Brooklyn, New York. To her, creating is a process of play in which time, material, energy, and desire interact to birth non-fungible artifacts of personal experience. Her work refects the collage-like elements of thought, remembering, forgetting, coping, and feeling. She loves oil paint, comics, and cats.

Raphael Williams (he/they) is a junior at NYU studying physics and creative writing. Their writing can be found in The Stardust Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and The Journal Magazine.

Jill Ruscoll has participated in multiple writing classes with Nancy McMillan and with poet Holly Wren Spaulding in the past four years. In her work life, she is a creative director of design in the healthcare field. On her days of, Jill enjoys hiking, biking, climbing, and being outside while spending time with family and friends. Her poems appear in the 2022 Connecticut Bards Poetry Review and are forthcoming in The MacGuffin and the Evening Street Review.

Harshini Venkatachalam is a senior at Brown University studying visual art and computer science. She is from the deserts of Tempe, Arizona. Her prints, which feature fish in various states of languidness and chaos, are inspired by absurdist literature and her experiences as a somewhat lethargic college student.