Issue No. 12, 2018-19. Contributors’ Notes 

FERNANDA AMIS is a freelance illustrator and writer. She studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins and is currently a junior in NYU Gallatin studying all things related to narrative. Fernanda’s drawings center on every- day civilian life, and the distortions and distempers that lie within it.

LARENZ BROWN is a senior at NYU. He’s from Evanston, Illinois. He likes writing and hopes to develop educational technology.

BAILEY COHEN is a queer Ecuadorian-American poet. He serves as associate editor for Frontier Poetry and his work can be found in publications such as Bou- levard, Rattle (Poets Resist Series), PANK, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere.

LILY COHEN is a first-year undergraduate and New York City native who makes a killer chocolate chip cookie and has really bad handwriting. She is passionate about making the fashion industry more environmentally sustainable (and is a co-founder of NYU’s Future Fashion Group), spending most of her money on movie tickets and candy, photography, the arts, music, travelling, going on long walks to procrastinate paper- writing, sitcoms, and the literary and poetic works of Betty Smith and CA Conrad. Above all though, she loves sharing greasy sweet potato fries with her loved ones and her dog.

MIGUEL CORONADO is a senior at NYU, studying English and Creative Writing. An aspiring poet, he hopes to craft a life for himself out of poetry.

IAN FISHMAN is a sophomore in Gallatin from Northampton, Massachusetts, studying Poetry and Critical Theory. He is a real human and not complex AI software moonlighting as a poet. You can most likely find him somewhere in the West Village screaming at pigeons about intersectionality, wishing he was Kenneth Koch.

MARIA GARLAND is a junior studying Psychology in CAS. A native New Yorker, she enjoys taking her camera with her on long, pensive walks around the city. Through photography, she hopes to be able to capture a unique scene, whether there is a story or not.

LADAN JABALLAS is a junior studying Urban Design and Architecture in CAS. She is minoring in Middle Eastern Studies and Business Studies. Ladan is originally from Ohio but chose NYU to further explore her artistic side. She enjoys all mediums of art but is particularly interested in photography, an interest that developed in middle school and has been with her since.

CONNIE LI is a performer and writer completing her senior year at Steinhardt. In her writing, she explores themes of childhood and the environment, and in all her artistic pursuits hopes to spotlight Asian-American identity and contribute to efforts for inclusivity and accessibility. She currently studies violin with Gregory Fulkerson, composition with Joan La Barbara, and poetry with Catherine Barnett.

KASSIDY MCINTOSH is a senior in the English department at NYU. Currently she is focusing on her Capstone project as part of the Creative Writing track, which will result in a collection of poetry. Outside of school, she works both at the Tamiment Library and at an independent publishing house and hopes to continue to work in publishing after graduation.

SARA MIRANDA is a photographer, graphic designer, and writer who in- tends to use her interests in these creative disciplines towards her love for fashion as an artistic director for the advertisement campaigns of a fashion retailer. Born in Illinois but raised in Louisiana, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Illinois (again), she is a junior majoring in Art History with a minor in Digital Art and Design. You can check out more of her work at sarakmiranda.com.

LEAH MUNCY is from a small town in Northern California. She’s a junior studying English and Creative Writing. She writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, and her work has been featured in Entropy and The Rumpus’ “This Week in Essays.” She would like to be a writer when she grows up.

MONIQUE MUSE is a New York–based creative who uses photography and sculpture to observe the capacity of space and the environment in relation to the mental and physical space of humans. Monique enjoys documenting the calmness released from acknowledging the grandness of the natural entities in the world. She compares this to the minuscule space that she and every other human individually inhabits. Monique always finds herself designing and building furniture as well and hopes to figure out a way to bridge all of her creative pursuits someday.

PAUL OLIVER grew up in Salt Lake City and now lives in Brooklyn. When he’s not working or writing, he enjoys eating sandwiches from his favorite deli, Lorimer Market.

PRIYA PRASAD is at the very least alive, currently, and would certainly like to keep it that way for quite some time. She has numerous plans for the future, and if asked, would be able to respond coherently. This can only be done under certain conditions, like during a full moon, when she is at her most powerful. No, she is not werewolf.

JULIA TORRES, originally from Chicago, is a junior in Gallatin with a con- centration titled Narratives of Anti-Institutionalism, and a minor in Creative Writing. She has a birthmark on the back of her leg that looks like a face. This is her first publication.

KATERINA VOEGTLE is a photographer and writer working in New York. Much of her work has to do with U.S. national myths and American tropes of masculinity. Currently, she is double-majoring in Social and Cultural Analysis and Photography.

DAWN WENDT is a sophomore in GLS with a concentration in Critical Creative Production, focusing on creative writing and mixed-media expression. She is originally from Nashville, Tennessee.