2022 Issue 5 Sept/Oct Focus - Mid-South magazine
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FEATURED WRITERS IN THIS ISSUE<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
We rely on community contributors for <strong>Focus</strong> <strong>magazine</strong> news and stories.<br />
A huge thanks to these dedicated writers!<br />
Whitney<br />
CARTER<br />
Whitney is a native of<br />
Mississippi, who’s been able<br />
to call the Memphis-area<br />
home for almost seven<br />
years. She is a poet, writer,<br />
and deep thinker who<br />
genuinely loves to love. She<br />
has a bachelor’s degree in<br />
journalism and a master’s in human and social services.<br />
Star McGill<br />
GOUDEY<br />
Artist and writer Star McGill<br />
Goudey has been creating<br />
for nearly her entire life.<br />
Since 2013, Goudey has<br />
lived in her Dresden, TN<br />
home that she shares with<br />
her husband and daughter,<br />
along with numerous horses,<br />
dogs, chickens, ducks, and cats. As a bisexual in a rural<br />
area she is always looking for ways to find community and<br />
help others do the same.<br />
Tricia<br />
DEWEY<br />
Tricia is a longtime Memphis<br />
transplant, who has<br />
grown to admire the ‘grit<br />
and grind’. She is also a<br />
mom, wife, runner, reader,<br />
recovering lawyer, tree<br />
hugger, and ally.<br />
Moth Moth<br />
MOTH<br />
Moth Moth Moth is a Drag<br />
Queen, Writer and Visual<br />
Artist from Memphis, TN<br />
where they host drag shows,<br />
contract for museums, and<br />
secretly write short stories<br />
about mastodons while<br />
cuddling with four cats.<br />
Vijdan<br />
GILL<br />
Vijdan is a student at<br />
Fordham University in New<br />
York City double majoring in<br />
Political Science and Digital<br />
Communications. They<br />
lived in Memphis for 6 years<br />
before college. You can<br />
always find them excessively<br />
procrastinating SOMETHING while simultaneously denying<br />
that they’ve got anything important to do.<br />
Other Contributors<br />
Chellie Bowman<br />
Savannah Bearden<br />
Tiffany Day<br />
Jenna Lee Dunn<br />
Shelda Edwards<br />
Minnassa<br />
Elaina Nicholas<br />
Ponyboi<br />
MUD<br />
Ethan James “Mud” McVay<br />
is a writer, stagehand,<br />
and interdisciplinary artist<br />
working in sculpture,<br />
performance, and<br />
installation art.<br />
Have a story that needs to be told? Pitch your story ideas to editor@focuslgbt.com<br />
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