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Bride Quarterly, The Philadelphia Review of Books, Slice, Verse Daily,
The Volta, West Branch, and Western Humanities Review, among
others. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia
University, she works as a Senior Writer at a criminal justice thinktank in Manhattan, studies philosophy at The New School for
Social Research, and lives in Brooklyn.
J a k e S ta n g e l mostly rides bikes and shoots photos on the
side occasionally. He lives in San Francisco. Favorite fruit is bosc
pear.
H ay l e y St e p h o n is a photographer living in New York City.
She is currently studying at the School of Visual Arts.

locally and nationally. She has been featured on the cover of
New American Paintings #106 and selected as a “Jury Pick” for 100
Painters of Tomor row, a publication produced by Beers
Contemporary in London.
Di a n a X i n holds an MFA in fiction from the University of

Montana. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska
Quarterly Review, The Masters Review, and Gulf Coast. She lives in
Seattle, Washington.

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A l ly W h i t e is a painter from Atlanta, GA, who has exhibited

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based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BS in Cinema and
Photography from Ithaca College. Her work often considers the
intricacies of location, fear, and storytelling. She recently spent time
at artist residencies throughout Iceland before moving to New York,
where she works at the publishing company W. W. Norton
& Company.

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A n i k a S t e p p e was born in Ann Arbor, MI, and is currently