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Leslie Dami

Leslie Dami

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...

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Isaiah Frisbie

Isaiah Frisbie

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...

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Erica Charis-Molling

Erica Charis-Molling

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...

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Gregg LeStage

Gregg LeStage

For 25 years, Gregg has been a management consultant specializing in organizational change and leadership development. He is based in Boston and currently serves as a Managing Director of Egon Zehnder's Leadership Advisory practice. He earned his BA from Trinity...

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January O’Neil

January O’Neil

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...

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Harrison Staley

Harrison Staley

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...

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Jane Donohue

Jane Donohue

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,...

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Owen Elphick

Owen Elphick

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...

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Talia Franks

Talia Franks

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...

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Kaylin Wu

Kaylin Wu

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...

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Danielle Jones

Danielle Jones

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...

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