Contributors

Finn Cohen is an associate editor of The Sun.

Brian Gresko loves applying eyeshadow and taking the stage to cohost Pete’s Reading Series, Brooklyn’s longest-running literary event. Their journalism is frequently featured in Poets & Writers and Electric Literature.

Erin McReynolds lives in Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in KR Online and New Letters. She just learned she’s fourth cousins with a wildly famous female pop star. You can follow her on X: @erinequals.

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine. When she’s not talking to students about poetry, she can be found baking with her children or driving them to hockey practice. Her first book of poems, American Radiance, is available now.

Ernest Ògúnyẹmí spent part of his teen years on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Now he is an undergraduate at Lagos State University and the author of the poetry collection A Pocket of Genesis. You can follow him on Instagram: @ernestogunyemi.

Chante Owens holds an MFA in nonfiction writing and lives in a 1920s Tudor in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and one high-maintenance poodle. You can follow her on Instagram: @chanteo.

Luke Patterson worked for six years as an EMT. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Spillway and Green Mountains Review. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Valentina Ríos Romero is a writer from Mexico City. They graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2023 and work in a café above a bookstore, where they like to make unusual book recommendations.

Omar Bairram first picked up a camera to express through images what he could not say with words. Ironically, because he has been influenced by surrealism, his images often need to be explained verbally. You can follow him on Instagram: @o.bairram.

Jodi Bosin lives in a blue house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her two cats. You can find her on her front porch or on Instagram: @jodi_bosin.

Steve Condiotti makes his living as a cinematographer and has worked on everything from feature films to soap operas, but his real passion is taking still photographs. He splits his time between San Francisco and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mostafa El-Shorbagy is a street photographer who has been documenting the life and people of Egypt for fourteen years.

Jesse Foley-Tapia is a photographer and journalist who advocates for communities that have been historically marginalized. He is currently living in Mexico, documenting Indigenous communities and working on his debut memoir, Behind Bars to Berkeley.

Fernando Gomes can be found in the Colorado mountains, taking pictures, renovating a Victorian house, and enjoying life with his family.

Jordan Thomas Law is a Chinese Australian photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. He hasn’t had a good night’s sleep since 2015.

Ingrid Lockhart worked for thirty-one years in the financial-services industry before devoting her retirement to nature and landscape photography. She lives in Michigan.

Bertie Taylor is a photographer and short-film maker based in Sussex, UK. He has appeared on the other side of the camera as a soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Captain America and modeling Jimi Hendrix’s trousers in a BBC documentary.

Wesley Verhoeve is a former New Yorker who lives in Amsterdam. His work has been published in The New York Times and National Geographic. He has a fridge full of vegetables and a freezer full of film.

William Lewis Winston taught English and history for four decades in Oakland, California. He has been taking photos since he was ten years old.

Michael Mwasi (FILMWASI) lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where he works in a nightclub and uses his income to share printed copies of his street photography with the people he photographs. He took the image on this month’s cover—of his friends Eunice, a vocalist, and Martking, a rapper—at an outdoor gathering during the pandemic. You can follow Mwasi on Instagram: @filmwasi.