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ISSUE III

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author & artist<br />

BIOGRAPHIES<br />

Casey Aimer holds an MFA in poetry from<br />

Texas State and a bachelor’s in prose from<br />

Texas A&M University. For over a decade he<br />

has performed nationwide with spoken word<br />

and page poetry. He is a former non-profit<br />

writing director and the blog editor for the<br />

Porter House Review. Aimer has previously<br />

been published in Ars Medica, The Fictional<br />

Café, Toyon Literary Magazine, Inwood Indiana<br />

Press, and more.<br />

Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist, from<br />

Athens, Greece. A Pushcart, Best of the Net,<br />

Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions<br />

nominated writer, her work can be found in<br />

many journals, such as Litro, Jellyfish Review,<br />

HAD, Ruminate, Lost Balloon, X-R-A-Y<br />

and others.<br />

Hunter Anson is an artist from Perth, Australia<br />

who primarily focuses on graphic design,<br />

mainly consisting of apparel design<br />

and album artwork. Although, he also really<br />

enjoy playing around with digital textures<br />

and colours to create detailed pieces.<br />

Jake Bailey is a schiZotypal experientialist<br />

and host of Poetry and Pot. He has published<br />

or forthcoming work in Abstract Magazine,<br />

The American Journal of Poetry, Constellations,<br />

Diode Poetry Journal, Frontier<br />

Poetry, Guesthouse, Mid-American Review,<br />

Palette Poetry, PANK Magazine, Passages<br />

North, Storm Cellar, TAB: The Journal of Poetry<br />

& Poetics, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.<br />

Jake received his MA from Northwest<br />

Missouri State University and his MFA from<br />

Antioch University, Los Angeles. He is a former<br />

editor for Lunch Ticket, current reader<br />

for Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, and<br />

lives in Illinois with his wife and their three<br />

dogs. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram<br />

(@SaintJakeowitz) and at saintjakeowitz.xyz.<br />

Julian Berger is a LA-based multimedia<br />

composer who is currently studying music<br />

composition and minoring in film music at<br />

Chapman University in Orange County. Coming<br />

from a classically trained background as<br />

a pianist, Julian has begun to branch out and<br />

now experiments with producing and blending<br />

electronic sounds and acoustic samples<br />

to create a vast variety of music. Find out<br />

about Julian’s most recent works on his youtube<br />

channel, www.youtube.com/c/Julianbergermusic<br />

Charlotte Cao is a current junior at Portola<br />

High School in Irvine, California. An avid<br />

reader and writer, she draws her inspiration<br />

from the likes of Sylvia Plath, Celeste Ng, and<br />

Ocean Vuong. As the daughter of Vietnamese<br />

immigrants, she is especially drawn to<br />

narratives that explore culture, family values,<br />

and the beauty of domesticity. Though she<br />

has yet to decide what she will pursue in the<br />

future, she is especially drawn to literature<br />

and the social sciences, believing that both<br />

provide a snapshot into the human experience.<br />

When she’s not writing poetry, she can<br />

often be found drinking excessive amounts<br />

of Thai tea boba and fawning over her dog<br />

Hershey.<br />

Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson (He/They) is a<br />

Black queer poet, performer, and educator<br />

from San Diego, CA, and Editorial Assistant<br />

at The Adroit Journal. A 2020 TWH Writing<br />

Workshop Fellow and two-time CUPSI finalist,<br />

his work has been featured on Button<br />

Poetry, in The Adroit Journal, Between My<br />

Body and The Air (A Youth Speaks Poetry<br />

Anthology), and elsewhere. He is graduating<br />

with a degree in Cultural/Social Psychology<br />

and a minor in Creative Writing from Stanford<br />

University and will be a Writer in the<br />

Public Schools Fellow in the NYU M.F.A program<br />

in Fall 2021.<br />

Yuan Changming started to learn the English<br />

alphabet at age nineteen and authored<br />

monographs on translation before leaving<br />

China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacif-

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