A GOOD FEEL by Amy Aniobi

CONTRIBUTORS

Demi Adejuyigbe is a writer, performer, and humorist living in Los Angeles. He was a digital producer on Comedy Central’s @midnight, and has written for The New Yorker, the Guardian, Pitchfork, MTV, The Good Place and an upcoming 2018 TV series.

Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, and I Pass Like Night; a graphic novel, The Alcoholic (with artwork by Dean Haspiel), and the essay collections I Love You More Than You Know, My Less Than Secret Life, and What’s Not to Love? He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press. He is also creator of the TV shows Blunt Talk and Bored to Death. His new book is You Were Never Really Here.

Megan Amram is a comedy television writer, having written for shows like The Good Place, The Simpsons, Parks & Recreation, Silicon Valley, and Transparent. She is the author of the humor book Science…For Her! and a contributor to The New Yorker. Her poetry has been featured in The Awl.

Amy Aniobi is a writer and producer on HBO’s hit comedy series Insecure.

Fred Armisen is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and musician.

Carmiel Banasky is a writer, editor, and teacher from Portland, Oregon. Her first novel, The Suicide of Claire Bishop, is published with Dzanc Books. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, PEN America, American Short Fiction, Slice, Guernica, The Rumpus, and on NPR, among other places.

Danielle Bobker is associate professor in the English Department at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is also co-organizer of a working group on Feminism and Controversial Humor.

Kara Brown lives in Los Angeles and is a writer on Freeform’s Black-ish spinoff, Grown-ish. Previously, she was a senior writer for Jezebel.

Lydia Conklin was the 2015–2017 Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory. Her fiction has appeared in a compilation of the best of the last 25 years of the Pushcart Prize and in Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. She has drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat, The Florida Review, and the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Mary-Alice Daniel was born in northern Nigeria and raised in London and Nashville. After attending Yale University, she received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan as a Rackham Merit Fellow. Her poems have been nominated three times for Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, and several anthologies, including Best New Poets 2017. Her adopted home is Los Angeles, where she is completing her debut, fulllength poetry collection and earning a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing as an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. His chapbook Hymn to Life was published by Factory Hollow Press and with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has been poetry editor at Boston Review since 1996 and is on the faculty of the Writing Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Liana Finck’s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult, and on her Instagram feed. Her first book, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press. Her second, Light and Shadow, is forthcoming from Random House. Broti Gupta is a comedy writer for Friends from College on Netflix and “Shouts and Murmurs” in The New Yorker.

Charlie Hankin is a cartoonist whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker, as well as Private Eye and Narrative Magazine. As one half of the comedy duo Good Cop Great Cop along with Matt Porter, he has performed internationally and developed shows for Comedy Central and TBS. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Peter J. Harris is the author of The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My ‘Unalienable Right’, which won the American Book Award in 2015. Writing from Los Angeles, Harris is founder of The Black Man of Happiness Project, a creative, intellectual, and artistic exploration prompted by one elemental question: What is a happy Black man?

Danielle Henderson is a TV writer and an utter delight. Mitra Jouhari is a writer and comedian who has written for Miracle Workers on TBS, The President Show on Comedy Central, and prior to that was a staffer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS. TV/film credits include: The Big Sick, Broad City, Friends from College, Full Frontal, as well as videos for The New Yorker, IFC, Comedy Central, Above Average, Refinery29’s RIOT, and more. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Reductress, Flaunt Magazine, Reality Beach, Splitsider, and Rookie. She is a member of the sketch groups Three Busy Debras and is obsessed with being from Ohio. Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and writer for print and television. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and MAD Magazine, and on Cartoon Network. He is the illustrator of the graphic novel Camp Midnight for Image Comics, with writer Steven T. Seagle. He was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, and he is an accomplished writer of four-sentence autobiographies.

E. J. Koh is the author of A Lesser Love, recipient of the Pleiades Editors Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, Columbia Review, World Literature Today, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing Poetry and Literary Translation in Korean and Japanese. She is completing her PhD at the University of Washington for English Language and Literature in Seattle, Washington.

Sarah LaBrie is a writer and librettist. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, Lucky Peach, The Literary Review, Epoch, Taste, and Encyclopedia Journal, among other publications. Her work for the Industry Opera’s Hopscotch was featured in The New Yorker, Wired, and on NPR. dreams of the new world, a choral piece commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and developed with composer Ellen Reid will premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in spring 2018.

Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.

David Litt is a former White House speechwriter. He is the author of the bestselling memoir Thanks, Obama, published in September 2017.

Ruth Madievsky is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Los Angeles. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, was published by Tavern Books as their 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. When she is not writing, she works as a pharmacist.

Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards, won the 2017 NYPL Young Lions Award, and was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s “Ten Best Books of 2016.” In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, n+1, and other venues. Sharon Olds is a poet and writer. Her most recent books are Stag’s Leap, recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize (U.K) and the Pulitzer Prize, and Odes. She teaches in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at New York University where she helped found the original outreach program at Goldwater Hospital, a 900-bed state hospital for the physically challenged. These programs at NYU now include a writing workshop for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. She lives in New York City.

Ryan Perez is a writer and director who has written for UCB, Funny or Die, Saturday Night Live, and Comedy Central’s Moonbeam City. He also co-wrote Adult Swim’s Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth and wrote and directed the Steve Jobs biopic, iSteve.

Zan Romanoff is the author of two novels, A Song to Take the World Apart and Grace and the Fever. Her work has been published in print and online at Elle, GQ, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Republic, among other outlets. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.

Amy Silverberg is a writer and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles. She’s currently a doctoral fellow in Fiction at the University of Southern California, where she teaches. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, The Collagist, Hobart, Joyland, The Offing, The Tin House Open Bar, and elsewhere. She’s now at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.

Alexander Stern is a postdoctoral fellow at the GoetheUniversity in Frankfurt, where he is working on a book on the philosophy of language.

Todd Strauss-Schulson writes and directs movies and TV shows. He made a cult classic no one really knows about called The Final Girls, a pilot that didn’t get picked up, and is currently working on the movie Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine, and Priyanka Chopra for Warner Bros. and Newline.

Marc Vincenz is British-Swiss and is the author of 11 books of poetry; his latest are Becoming the Sound of Bees, Sibylline, The Syndicate of Water & Light, and Leaning into the Infinite (Dos Madres Press, 2018). His novella, Three Taos of T’ao, or How to Catch a White Elephant, is published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is also the translator of many German-, French-, and Romanian-language poets. His latest book of translations is Unexpected Development by Swiss novelist and poet, Klaus Merz. His own recent publications include The Nation, Ploughshares, The Common, Solstice, Raritan, Notre Dame Review, New American Writing, and World Literature Today. He is co-editor of Fulcrum, international editor of Plume, as well as publisher and editor of MadHat Press and Plume Editions. Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, and writer who has appeared on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show. She is also the writer and performer of her one woman show, “The Wong Street Journal”. She is currently planning her run for public office. She has been blocked by Trump, his three kids from his first wife, Anthony Scaramucci, and Sebastian Gorka on Twitter.