Contributors
Our wonderful contributors all live amazing life and if you're interested in checking out more of their work, find them down below!
Noah Banuchi
author of "Lost at Sea"
Noah Banuchi writes about trying to focus on the pretty lights while stars explode, the entanglement of our identities, and all the silver lining stories that soothe a chronically anxious queer. Noah is currently a senior English student at the University of Florida. He can be found at @Noahbanuchi on Twitter, where he will probably be weirdly intense about Latinx horror, queer poets through history, disability writing.
Charlie Jimenez
artist of "From Soul to Swan" and "Raining Hands"
Charlie Jimenez (They/Them) born in Chelsea, is an artist-filmmaker and performer based in London.
Their work is primarily concerned with phenomenology, mythology, shamanism, identity, and cosmology told through poetical, surrealist, and metaphysical perspectives. Their work engages with choreography and masks exploring the liminal otherness of form, memory and experience.
Their films have been screened at festivals worldwide, including Close-Up Cinema, United Artist International Film Festival, Saigon Experimental Film Festival, & Sydney World Film Festival.
In 2020, their film ‘A Fugue’ won ‘Best Experimental Film at PHYFF 2020.
Charlie is in their second year of study at Central Saint Martins (UAL), studying BA "Performance: Design & Practice”.
Charlie is currently in post-production of a surrealist pixilation short film with the working title 'The Waiting Kitchen’.
Instagram: @anetherealbooth
Mayce Keeler
artist of "Crushed head, bruised heel (woman as whore as mother as savior)"
Mayce Keeler is a painter and printmaker based in San Diego, and graduated in 2018 with a BFA from the University of San Diego. Through Printmaking and Painting, they reference personal and traditional folkloric mythos through allegorical chimeras as a way to navigate bestial anxieties. Keeler has shown work in San Diego and Los Angeles, with galleries including USD Copley Galleries, Mesa Art Gallery, and Avenue 50th. They have collaborated on murals in San Diego as well as Rhode Island, and have taught classes at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
My social media username on instagram is: @supermundanebodies
N. Lea
author of "Unconditional Love"
N. Lea’s interests include hoarding lucky bamboo, watching anime, and casting spells. Her previously published poems can be found in The Delta Literary Journal. Currently, she is working on a poetry collection.
Nessa Marie
author of "Reunion"
Nessa Marie is a Black woman writing from the Midwest. Watching too many scary movies as a child led to a lifelong love of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, traveling, and trying not to despair at the very real horrors of everyday life. She loves her mom and her friends, near and far.
Madeline Maser
artist of "Automatic Study of Drama/Trauma"
Madeline Maser is an intuitive multimedia artist whose artwork delves into the human psyche, consciousness, and the etheric information that she believes is the source of a malleable reality. Through automatic drawing (creating an image without a goal in mind), she explores different emotions and encapsulates them into artworks, naming them after the emotional energy they most closely resemble once the image has found its conclusion. She's recently turned a collection of these into an art book and chaos magick tool, "Shadow Work: A Negative Energy Burn Book," and continues to create new illustrations for the upcoming second edition.
Maser also creates shadow portraits, in which she illustrates not just the subject, but also the etheric info she sees, feels, or senses while capturing their visage. Through her automatic drawing technique, she is able to disengage from her own ego and "zone out" completely, which allows her to tap into the collective consciousness and receive info about the subject they might not normally share. Some might call this a psychic ability, although it comes so naturally to her she feels it's a misconception to deem it a phenomenon. Instead, she hopes to help normalize the idea of accepting this "sixth sense" and teaching others how to tap into their own abilities.
Follow Madeline on IG at @madelinemaser and learn more about her artwork, book, and shadow portraits at her website, www.artofmadelinemaser.com
Jordan Merenick
author of "Sisyphus"
Jordan Merenick is a poet who has been published by Nitrogen House, Clover & White, Lightning Tower Press, Calla Press, Trash To Treasure, On-The-High Literary Journal, Rune, & Iceblink Lit. He can be contacted at jordanmerenickwrites on Instagram. Whenever he is not writing, he is busy enjoying hanging out with his family and enjoying a good old-fashioned murder mystery. He hopes that readers of this zine will be challenged by his work.
Alder Phillips
author of "Watching Me Watch You" and artist of "YOU AND I, I THINK WE'RE CONNECTED"
Alder is a stranger among strangers among friends. His piece, Watching Me Watch You, is an example of his older work, and he has since come to understand facets of himself visible in that piece that at the time he did not. He is very proud of working in NYC’s robust food service industry.
More of his drawings can be viewed at @monologuerhead on instagram. He is currently working on a science fiction novel.
Lizzie Pike
author of "Watching Me Watch You"
Lizzie Pike, a South London-based artist, draws inspiration from her upbringing in the British countryside to create intricate rugs crafted from wool. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in folklore stories and her personal memories of growing up surrounded by nature. Through her work, she seeks to evoke a sense of the otherworldly, blending folklore narratives and traditions with contemporary concerns about the decay of our environment due to climate change.
Starting her creative process with watercolour paintings Lizzie collects patterns, textures, colours and intricate details from her surroundings. Assembling these with folklore narratives, Lizzie translates these observations onto paper, often allowing the diluted paint to create its own path. She captures the ethereal beauty and captivating scenes that later inform her rugs. As she meticulously hand tufts each thread, Lizzie's artistic process embodies a deep connection to nature, serving as a reminder of the interconnectedness of all living things.
Lizzie's rugs go beyond their utilitarian purpose, transforming into portals that transport viewers to a realm where reality and fantasy converge. They serve as visual representations of cultural heritage, reflecting both the rich traditions of storytelling and the urgent need to address the ecological challenges we face. By intertwining the natural and historical use of wool with contemporary themes, she highlights the interconnectedness of our past, present, and future. Lizzie’s rugs serve as reminders of the beauty that surrounds us, and the pressing need to preserve it for future generations.
Instagram - @lizziestudio
Scott Purdy
artist of "Friend or Foe"
Scout Purdy is currently a senior in the Art program at Shepherd University. She focuses mostly on painting, printmaking, and cyanotype, with subject matter focusing on human emotions and feelings and the incorporation of nature. Scout has had work exhibited in West Virginia, Virginia, and Missouri, online, and has had her work published.”
My Instagram handle is @mackearte
Jake Selters
artist of "Wendigo"
I'm a San Diego based artist and currently an art student at San Diego Mesa College. I work in various mediums and I'm looking to pursue a career in art once I graduate from college.
Instagram: @artbyselters
Jennifer Shaw
artist of "Dragon"
Jennifer Shaw is an artist who works at the intersection of photography and printmaking.
In her art, she embraces the simple, the understated, and the symbolic to address
themes of climate, family, and home. Play is integral to her practice, as seen through
her work with plastic cameras and her explorations in photogravure.
Jennifer studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is
published in two monographs: Hurricane Story (Chin Music Press) and Nature/Nurture
(North Light Press), and held in collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art,
the Ogden Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In 2020, Shaw was one of
three finalists for the 1858 Prize. In 2021 she was one of Photolucida's Critical Mass
Top 50 artists. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Instagram handle: @jenshaw_nola
Sabrina Skinner
artist of "The Goblin Market"
Sabrina Skinner's work focuses on nature, folklore, symbolic imagery, and depicting historic to modern social issues represented through 2D and 3D forms; favoring ceramics and watercolor, as well as photography and fictional writing. Dominant themes within these works relate to nostalgia and escapism, trauma healing, and topics concerning gender and sexuality in a modern context. The artist has received a B.F.A in Ceramics, and a B. A. in Art History (with a minor in History) from the University of West Georgia. He will be enrolled as a Post Bac. student in Ceramics at Hartford University- beginning Fall 2023.
RB Tower
artist of "Yama Onna"
RB Tower lives in the desert and makes comics because it is cheaper than therapy.
ZVComics.com and @RB_Tower@mastodon.social is where the magic happens. Believe it!
David Zhang
artist of "The Pleasure of Tu'Er Shen"
David Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Northern Virginia working on his BFA in Studio Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his personal biography and experience, he works with matters of identity, trauma, and intersectionality.
His creation and art making are inherently intertwined with the healing and processing of his world and personal history. The external thinking and personal development outside his artistic practice influences his artistic interpretation of the concept of what comes next once a moment closes – the story after the story, the unseen quiet after the recorded event., and the processing and digesting of a happening. His current exploration is into the relationships a human has – with its body, mind, nature, and other humans themselves. Interested in the biological and the external, his forms often reflect what a human is outside of the personal.