Marie Warsh is a historian and writer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of Central Park’s Adventure Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy (2019) and editor of two books about her aunt, artist Rosemary Mayer, Temporary Monuments (2018) and Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer (2016).
Peter Bogart Johnson‘s work has appeared recently in No, Dear, Prelude, So & So, and Atlas Review. He lives and works in New York.
E.C. Kane b. Brooklyn 1983
Janae Brux is a painter who recently moved from San Francisco to attend NYU, where she is completing graduate work in cinema studies and comparative literature
Susana Maio has been writing poetry all her life. Her 11-page poem What a Beautiful Day was published by Gathering of the Tribes, following the events of 9/11 and its heavy impact on the lives of her fellow New Yorkers.
Victoria Ordway is a writer, video artist, and activist fresh to Brooklyn. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in 2017. Her poetry was recently published in As Of Late, a bi-annual poetry journal based in Berkeley, California. She also recently self-published a small edition chap book titled Vegan Bologna. She looks forward to finding her way through the New York art scene, and collaborating with fellow creatives!
Serge Rodriguez (Nuyorican, b. 1982) is a poet and librarian. His work has appeared in Vetch: A Magazine of Trans poetry and poetics.
Ryan Nowlin (NJ) received his MA in creative writing from Temple University in 2004 and MLIS from Rutgers in 2011. His concentration was in post-modern American poetry and 20th century Modernisms. For the past few years he has been an active participant in the Poetry Project at St. Marks in the Bowery. He currently lives in NJ and teaches as an English Adjunct at Hudson County Community College in JC. Recently poems of his have appeared in Sal Mimeo, The Delineator and the online publications, Boog City and Across the Margins as well as the anthology/photography book, Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets Ed. Larry Fagin & John Sarsgard. Also, he has published two chapbooks, entitled Banquet Settings and Not Far From Here. Kugel is his first full length collection of poetry. Currently he is working on another ms. entitled Time with the Season.
Matt D’Angelo grew up in Florida and now is one of the two audio and technical managers at The Poetry Project, in addition to co-owning Book Row and Better Read Than Dead bookshops in Brooklyn.
Ry is a poet, artist, and sex worker living in Brooklyn. His interests include the lived experiences of urban & rural queers in the aftermath of the AIDs epidemic, botany // ethnobotany, militant leftists, and synesthesia, among many others.
