CONTRIBUTORS

Lydia Host

- SHE/HER -

Lydia Host is a transgender writer, poet, and literary translator living in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, The Southern Review, Global City Press, Ravens Perch Magazine, and others.

IG: @lydiahost1 | lydiasthost.com

Jed Williams

- HE/HIM -

Jed Williams was born in Philadelphia, USA, in 1975 and brought up in Paris, France; he is a French and American dual citizen now based in Philadelphia, USA. He comes from an artistic background: his father was the celebrated poet C.K Williams and his mother is a jeweler. He has his own studio gallery, JWS, has shown extensively in US, and has collectors in US and abroad.

IG: @jedwilliamsstudio | jedwilliams.net

Goods and Bads

Goods and Bads is a one-woman illustration studio based in South Philly. With a style informed by tattoos, comics, existentialism, and absurdism, Goods and Bads makes art focused on anthropomorphic animals and words. Favorite subject matter includes toads, rats, and other under-loved creatures.

IG: @goodsandbadsstudio | goodsandbads.com

Joseph Nicolello

Mo the Poet

- SHE/HERMo the Poet was born and raised in South Philadelphia. A self taught poet, she writes about a variety of topics such as queerness, the good, bad and ugly sides of love, activism, and mental health. A stream of consciousness writer with roots in jazz, Mo loves to reach her audience in both meaningful and funny ways; she hopes her words uplift and inspire a sense of love and community.

IG: @mo_thepoet josephnicolello.com | jwdn@upenn.edu

Joseph Nicolello is a Philadelphian scholar and poet. Nicolello has authored several works of literary fiction, poetry, philosophy, and has two book-length projects in progress: a book on John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Technology, and Apocalypse, as well as a multi-volume, long-term work on William Blake’s “Milton: A Poem.” Nicolello is open to as much visual/ poetic collaboration as possible with artists based in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.