Issue No. 11, 2017-18. Contributors’ Notes 

KEDAR BERNTSON is a junior in the Film and Television program, minoring in English and Creative Writing.

DAVID BRAKE is a junior at New York University, studying English and Creative Writing. He writes both poetry and fiction. David originally comes from Denver, Colorado.

JULIA BRICNET is an artist who is passionate about film photography both as a medium and a dying art. She mostly works with 35mm cameras and Polaroid Land Cameras. Julia is in her second year at NYU, majoring in Media, Culture, and Communications at the Steinhardt School of Cul- ture, Education and Human Development.

MARCO CHAN wonders what it would be like if he only consumed dairy for an entire day. He’s lactose intolerant. Sometimes, he writes poetry.

LIXING MIDA CHU is a senior Philosophy major at NYU, minoring in Psychology and Linguistics. Mida is also an accomplished filmmaker, with films screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. His current research focuses on narrative perception. 

BAILEY COHEN is an Ecuadorian-American freshman at NYU studying Journalism, English, and Creative Writing. He has poems forthcoming in the Spring 2018 issues of Projector Magazine, Spires Literary Magazine, and more. He also runs the blog Coffee Table which features weekly close readings of contemporary poetry with an emphasis on upcoming authors.

ABBIE DONOGHUE is a recent graduate of New York University with a degree in Comparative Literature. The country she comes from is called the Midwest. These days, Abbie can be found with a book or on a bike in New York City. 

CLAYTON FEJES is a junior at Gallatin concentrating on Image Culture through poetry and photography. The photo in this issue is taken from a series that he put together while studying in Germany, in which the photographic and sculptural mediums of stillness collide in the “dead” sites of cemeteries around Berlin.

EVA GU is a Chinese-American undergraduate student at NYU, and an alumna of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. She is a San Francisco Bay Area native. Her work has been published in the Eunoia Review and the Kenyon Anthology. When she is not stressing about writ- ing, she spends most of her time missing her cat at home or exploring the muted metropolis of New York City. 

HELENA KEOWN (huhLEEnuh KOWen) is a queer poet based in New York. She works in advocacy and community organizing, and will be graduating from NYU in May 2018.

VERONICA LIOW is a Gallatin sophomore concentrating in the ethical concerns of how photography impacts society through a cultural and political lens. She is from the Bay Area in California and thus a strong advocate for the term, “hella.” More than (almost) anything, she loves pugs. She likes to drink green tea almost everywhere, anytime. When she’s not out curating her Instagram feed (@officialramen), she is in the basement of Third North Residence Hall, working as the Assistant Managing Edi- tor for the Washington Square News. Ultimately, she hopes to be able to expose and document socioeconomic issues through photography.

SARA MIRANDA is a visual artist and writer from Chicago, Illinois. She loves everything art, especially photography. Sara would like to thank all the members of the editorial board for selecting her photo, Retro Butterfly, to be in this year’s West 10th.

KAYLEE REYNOLDS is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and creative enthusiast who seeks to bridge her interests in art, entrepreneurship, and innovative content creation. With a passion for the arts, Kaylee strives to dispel the underappreciation for the field, and hopes to contribute to educating members of society about its cultural and philosophical values. Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, she is a current undergraduate student at New York University, pursuing a major in Studio Art and a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology. See her work at kayleereynolds.com. 

HANNAH SEIDLITZ is a double Libra, which according to her pseudo-scientist friends means she’s diplomatic and indecisive. She thinks this is probably true. At Gallatin, she studies semiotics and the application of Aristotelian rhetoric to mediums of contemporary storytelling. In Brooklyn, she lives with her two roommates and spends her “free time” (when she isn’t writing, complaining, or commuting) doing whatever it is that young people in metropolitan areas do to forestall quarter-life crises. She’s written for several publications including PEN America, and currently works at Pigeon Pages literary journal. Hannah hopes to continue pursuing creative nonfiction professionally post-graduation.

PIM-ORN SUPAVARASUWAT is a sophomore student double-majoring in English and Global Liberal Studies. She enjoys drinking tea and eating stale cake at museum cafés and has since amassed a large collection of photographs of people looking at paintings.

HENRY TRINDER really likes Kafka, but likes avocados even more.

ALEXANDRA JADE TRINGALI is a junior majoring in Food Studies and minoring in Creative Writing. She’s been obsessed with all things food since she was a child, and, with camera in hand, is determined to capture not only cuisine itself, but the behaviors, cultures, and traditions that surround it. She currently works as a freelance food photographer, and plans to go to culinary school after graduation.

OLGA USH is a fashion photographer originally from Moscow, Russia. Currently, she lives in New York City and studies Photography and Imaging at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Olga shoots both digital and film, working mostly with Canon 5D and Mamiya RZ. Olga’s main interest is to combine fashion photography genre with fine art. She puts models in surreal scenes, sometimes from fairy tales, folklore, and myths. Olga’s works have been printed and published in numerous magazines, such as Vogue, The Atlas, and Ellements. Her work has been exhibited in New York’s Chashma Gallery, at Miami Art Basel, and at Vermont’s LOVE gallery. 

SOPHIA WANG is studying Applied Psychology and Global Public Health. She also has a minor in Web Programming and Applications. In her own time, she creates digital art pieces, takes photographs, eats hotpot, and hangs out at cat shelters (a lot). She is interested in how research can inform better decisions in user experience design. 

YUKI MAEDA WARD is a photographer-filmmaker from Boulder, Colorado. She attended Santa Fe University of Art & Design until the an- nouncement of their impending closure and was accepted into Tisch a week before the Summer semester began. Yuki is exploring film and pho- tography with both digital and analog cameras. The photos herein are from a series shot on her father’s Nikon F2. Yuki looks forward to the endless opportunities being an artist in a big city will bring.

Growing up in China, California, and Chicago, JASON ZUOWEI XIAO developed his interest in traveling and capturing the beauty of places that resonate with him, from the plateaus of Tibet to the flooding waters of Yellowstone and the golden bays of Southern California. Despite being a sophomore in Economics, photography is his passion for life, so much so that it surlyey will drive him insane one day.