Laurin Macios holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship for three years. Her work appears in Salamander, Green Mountains Review online, [PANK], Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pinch, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. She was a...
Sam Kiss is a poet and essayist currently pursuing a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, as well as a minor in Nonprofit Communications. He is passionate about the intersection between social justice, community building, and the arts....
Lip Manegio (they/them) is a Pushcart-nominated writer, organizer, & cryptid who is learning to be unapologetically in love with life. They are currently pursuing a BFA in creative writing with a minor in art history at Emerson College, where they also serve as...
Amy has served on the Executive Board and in many other leadership roles of Temple Beth Elohim for many years. She also serves on the board of the Commission on Jewish Continuity & Education and previously on CJP’s Adult Learning Steering Committee. She is Chair of...
Aishvarya Arora (she/her/hers) is an Asian American poet and community-based researcher from Queens, New York. She studied English at Tufts University and was awarded the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award. She’s made homes in Boston, Providence, and Delhi, India...
Peter Orlovsky is a graduate student from Binghamton, New York currently living in Lowell, Massachusetts. Peter graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a degree in Philosophy and Communications and is currently perusing a master’s degree...
Leslie Dami is a 23-year-old designer currently studying at Montserrat College of Art where she is majoring in Graphic Design with an Entrepreneurship in the Arts minor. After studying Graphic Design for three years in high school, she transitioned into college to...
Isaiah Frisbie (he/him/his) is a queer, Latinx poet and designer from Southern California. He earned his dual BA in Literary Arts and English Nonfiction Writing from Brown University and his MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Having worked in community...
Erica Charis-Molling is a poet, educator, and librarian. Her writing has been published in Crosswinds, Presence, Glass, Anchor, Vinyl, Entropy, and Mezzo Cammin and is forthcoming in Redivider. She has taught workshops at the Boston Public Library and online courses...
January Gill O’Neil is the author of Misery Islands (2014) and Underlife (2009), both published by CavanKerry Press. A third collection, Rewilding, will be published by CavanKerry Press in fall 2018. She was the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival...
Harrison Staley is currently an undergraduate English and Philosophy major at Northeastern University. A reader and writer of fiction and creative nonfiction from Dallas, Texas, Harrison looks for inspiration in urban architecture, local ecology, and expressionist...
Jane Donohue (she/her) is a current undergraduate student at Simmons University, where she is studying English and Communications. A writer of poetry, prose, and creative nonfiction, her work has been featured in Kingdoms in the Wild, The Northern New England Review,...
Owen Elphick is a writer, performer, and creator from Storrs, Connecticut. His work has been published in The Hartford Courant, Corridors, Gauge, Concrete, Stork, and the chapbook Fresh Voices 23 (Antrim House Press, 2016); anthologized in The Golden Thread Project by...
Talia Franks is a writer, poet, translator, cosplayer, and podcaster from Massachusetts. An active and critical participant in the Doctor Who, Marvel, and Percy Jackson fandoms, Talia writes regularly on Word-for-Sense and Other Stories and they have contributed to...
Kaylin Wu is a writer and artist from West Hartford, Connecticut. She earned her dual BA in English and Studio Art from Simmons University. Having worked with several writing institutions in Boston, including GrubStreet and Solstice Literary Magazine, she aims to help...
Program Director Danielle Jones is a poet and educator, with over a decade of experience in arts administration and activism. Most recently she worked alongside poet Andrea Cohen as Assistant Director of the Writers House at Merrimack College, where she managed a...