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17 countries. 4 continents.

ARTISTS

Aleena Shariff @aleenasharif_art

Aleena was born in Pakistan. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, graduating with a BFA and minor in art history. She has held exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Italy, and Pakistan, as well as in numerous virtual galleries. She continues her practice between New York and Pakistan, where she holds open studies in hopes of creating a safe space for the display of nude paintings.

Synthetic dreams of not being lonely and Bruised Knees, Open Mouth are featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Irina Tall Novikova @irina.tall111

Irina Tall is an artist and illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art and bachelor's in design. Her first personal exhibition My soul is like a wild hawk (2002) was held at the Maxim Bagdanovich Literary Museum. In 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster. Broadly, she draws on anti-war and ecological themes.

the bird that never dies; Old Legend. White Duck; and white kitten are featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

POETS

Ajmal Shaniq Cassim @ajshaniq

Hailing from Sri Lanka, Shaniq publishes annual poetry collections. For him, writing has been a moral compass. Born and raised across continents, Shaniq sees identity as a myth, driving him to constantly reinvent his work over and over. His journey involves immortalizing his story by burning the old archives and starting anew.

Beatriz Seelaender

Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian writer from São Paulo. You can find her work all over the internet, from fictional horoscopes at Maudlin House to political reflections at MayDay Mag. She has earned both the Sandy Run Award and the Bottom Drawer Prize for the novellas The Austenites (Hidden River, 2024) and All According to Norm (Black Spring, 2024) respectively.

Hangman and Judgment Day are featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Claudia Wysocky

Claudia Wysocky is a Polish writer and poet based in New York. Her work is featured in WordCityLit and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. She published All Up in Smoke (Anxiety Press). Her writing is powered by her belief in art's potential to inspire positive change. She also shares her journey and love for writing on her own blog, where she expresses her talents as an immigrant raised in post-communism Poland.

D and 1985 are featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Cloud Sinclair

Cloud Sinclair (they/them) is a 23-year-old London-based poet and ‘lover of the queer form and what comes with being human.’ Her work has been published in pastelserenityzine, anarkiss, gnashing teeth publication and more. They write about what lies at the depths of our perception.

Heaven Scorched is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Ivana Tubić @poemsbyivana

Ivana is a 29-year-old English language teacher born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. She also writes poetry, which explores the feelings of longing and nostalgia, the human connection, the impact of social media, as well as social and political commentary. Her other hobbies include writing articles and essays, drawing, enjoying pop culture and watching commentary videos on YouTube.

Prismatic Prison is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Fallace Poh

Fallace is a self-proclaimed confessional poet still trying to identify her style. Her favourites include Ocean Vuong, Stray Kids, a plate of Ya Kun Kaya Toast, and writing about the intangible.

I write more about September than I should and Raised By a Flower are featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Gil Asif @asif_theentertainer

Gil Asif is a non-binary poet from Massachusetts. Writing has long been their release and a crucial meaning making exercise for the confusing and often painful experiences of young adulthood and mental illness. Over the past year, they selected and assembled fifty-four pieces of poetry for a currently unpublished collection, and regularly post illustrations and poems to their Instagram. In their free time, they make punk music and attend school to be a mental health professional.

The Tower is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Hope Nitta @cringewright

Hope Nitta is a 21-year-old writer from Washington state. When she isn't putting her work out into the world you can find her in a park, no matter the weather.

My Muse as Fire is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Isobel Burke @poet.unmoored

Isobel Burke is a Canadian poet born and raised on Vancouver Island. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Bridport Prize for Poetry and her poetry collection “inheritance” won the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival poetry contest in 2023. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including PRISM International, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Penumbra Online, amongst others.

don't swim is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Lilian Farias

Lillian EJ Farias is a poet based in Minnesota, and her midwestern background shines through in her writing. Lillian has always been passionate about art and literature, and has been honing her craft for the past 5 years. Lillian is currently a voluntary editor at a literary magazine for poetry and prose, as well as a reviewer of visual art.

inhabitants of the midwest -- a collection of 5 poems -- is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Louis Faber

Louis Faber is a poet and blogger. His work has appeared in Cantos, The Poet (U.K.), Alchemy Spoon, New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Erothanatos (Greece), Defenestration, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: the Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, among many others. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Wildly Grasping is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Nana Virrueta @nowoundsforever

Nana Virrueta is a 20-year-old writer in Southern California. While attending LBSU for creative writing, they spend pockets of time reading and writing nonfiction and poetry. Both Nana and their work spend much time evaluating one’s place in the world.

Titan of Forethought is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Naram Khalayli

Naram Khalayli is a 25-year-old Palestinian-Syrian, living in Damascus, Syria. He is a poet, mixed media artist, and is currently doing his residency in psychiatry after graduating with an M.D. He's interested in the creation of art, in any medium that sparks curiosity, attempting to capture emotions of delayed youth and abnormal surroundings.

fruit seller is featured in Volume 1, Winter Issue.

Paul Hostovsky

Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. His poems and essays appear widely online and in print. His latest book of poems is Pitching for the Apostates (Kelsay, 2023).

Zoom out to see where our contributors hail from! 17 countries. 4 continents.