CONTRIBUTORS

Ceilidh Ashcroft is a 23-year-old writer of mixed Chinese-European heritage, currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She is a recent graduate, having obtained her BA in Psychology from Simon Fraser University with a focus on abnormal psychology. Outside of writing poetry, she spends most of her time coding interactive fiction and creating digital art. Her interactive work can be found at: ha1fie.itch.io Nasim Rebecca Asl is a Geordie-Persian poet and journalist who lives and works in Glasgow. Her poetry has appeared in Skin Deep, Young Poet’s Network and Modern Poetry in Translation, as well as Tapsalteerie’s anthology pamphlet ‘Ceremony’. In 2018 she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s Women Poets’ Prize. Her poem ‘Nemidoonam’ featured in the inaugural Fringe of Colour Films poetry series Sorry I Was On Mute. Nasim is a member of the Scottish BAME Writers Network, the 2020 Traverse Theatre Young Writers programme and she is an alumna of The Writing Squad. Damien Belliveau A 2020 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Damien Belliveau is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and a veteran of the United States Army. He has spent over a decade telling stories in the world of reality television as an editor, producer, and director. The founder of The PartBlack Project, a Q&A photography series documenting ethnically mixed people like himself, Damien is preparing to take his first book to market, an autofiction project entitled, hella. Alessia Camoirano Bruges is an Italian-Colombian artist based in London. She has lived in many different places, each one inspiring her deeply, and graduated from the University of the Arts London where she studied Film and TV, and learned how colours impact on our emotions and moods. She then found fluid art, which she related to deeply. She combines colours, fluidity and emotional intensity into her art practice, and sees each artwork as a cathartic experience in which she is able to connect to her inner child and let go of anything that holds her back by “simply” being present. Each artwork is presented with lyrics and a storyline written by the artist. Ruth De Cerff is a South African American writer currently based in Johannesburg. Her poetry and prose focus mainly on themes of womanhood, mixed race identity, home and belonging. She has been previously published in Glamour SA and FGRLS and is passionate about all things fiction, fashion and food. Athena Dennis Content Catnip is an Australian born Māori writer and videographer of Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Scottish, Irish and Swedish descent. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her partner. She has a restless and adventurous soul and therefore has lived in Germany, Scotland and Australia and been to many countries. She is always curious about what lies over the next mountain ridge, around the next beach cove and inside of the next busy market stall. She writes about books, quirky history, creativity and much more on her blog. Sydney Daniels Garrett is a poet and essayist from Ferguson, Missouri. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis where she served as managing editor of Natural Bridge—A Journal of Contemporary Literature. Sydney lives with her husband, their sons, and many houseplants.

Jalinka Gressmann is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, with a background in commercial creative studies (Cibap, Zwolle 1996), 3D-design and Sculpture (HKU, Utrecht 1998). She graduated with a degree in Fine Art – Intermedia in 2004 at the University of the Arts Utrecht. Gressmann’s art is a spontaneous manifestation of her visions, perpetually developing in experimental and playful ways. The results can be seen in surreal collage, (self) portrait collages, mixed-media photography, drawings, assemblages and in diverse, interactive, creative workshops for all ages. She exhibits regularly in galleries and cultural places and was Artist in Residence in Portugal (Moinhos do Dão, 2015) and Brazil (Pachamama Atelier, 2017-2018). Graitchell Gutierrez (they/them) is an Afro-Latinx poet and creative hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Their poems primarily center around the duality of being both black and latinx, their immigrant parents, as well as being raised bilingual and their childhood summers being split between Panama and New York. They are currently a senior attending Bradley University, pursuing a degree in Creative Writing and Sustainability, allowing them to delve deeper into their passion for environmental work and writing. Jo Hamya is a writer and freelance journalist. Her first novel, Three Rooms, will be published July 2021 by Jonathan Cape in the UK, and August 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US. She lives in London. Sumaya Kassim is a writer, curator and critic based in Birmingham, UK. She writes fiction and critical essays on art and culture and speaks regularly at universities, art galleries and museums about decolonising histories and the power of storytelling. She is working on a creative non-fiction project on autoimmunity as well as her first novel. She has Yemeni, Iraqi and English heritage. Peri Law is a visual artist and curator currently based in North Carolina. She is inspired by her experiences as a young Chinese-Vietnamese-English woman living as a first generation American in the South. Her work uses personal, cultural, and multigenerational memories and trauma to explore the idea of a visual atmosphere as a liminal space. Her work is her attempt at understanding her identity, through a search for home and a sense of belonging, and an attempt at channeling her fervent emotions towards her surrounding environment and future. Molly Murakami is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She received a BA in Studio Art from St. Olaf College before pursuing her MFA in Visual Studies through the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her work often centers closely on themes of family, shared histories, thought processes, and social justice. Jonathon Wood Arkansas-based photographer Teddy, also known as Jonathon Wood, is a member of the Choctaw Nation artistic community. Teddy draws inspiration from his heritage to create digital art focusing on capturing an overlooked story of the natural beauty the South has to offer.

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