Poetry Contributor
Trishita Das is a student and writer from Mumbai, India. In her poems, she celebrates and archives the magic of everyday life. Her work has been featured in several magazines and online platforms including Ayaskala and Airplane Poetry Movement. She also enjoys culinary experiments, fluffy dogs and bathroom singing.
Fiction Contributor
Mary Sophie writes flash and short fiction in the myriad coffee shops around the DC area. When she isn’t writing, she teaches students who are blind or visually impaired. Her fiction has appeared in Montana Mouthful, Every Day Fiction, and 365 Tomorrows, and is pending in The Magnolia Review, and AEL press.
Tweeting @marysfilicetti
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Whilst chronic pain & disability are Claire’s daily companions, it is through nature & writing that she finds both the meaning & the means with which to make sense of the world. With articles published on such sites as well, she strives to help others navigate the complex realities of life, both with and without chronic illness. As well as creative non-fiction Claire has had both poetry and flash fiction published.
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Anannya Uberoi (she/her) is a full-time software engineer and part-time tea connoisseur based in Madrid. She has been previously recognized as the winner of Ayaskala Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Writing Month challenge. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Jaggery, LandLocked, Deep Wild Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Lapis Lazuli, and Marías at Sampaguitas. Her writing has also featured on The Delhi Walla and The Dewdrop, among other literary blogs.
Fiction Contributor
Nina Fosati loves portraiture and historic clothing. Beguiled, she regularly posts her favorites on Twitter @NinaFosati. Recent work has or will soon appear in JMWW Journal, Oye Drum Magazine, Ellipsis Zine, and Disabled Voices Anthology.
Her website is www.NinaFosati.com
Hannah Napier Rosenberg
We need not look to the history books
to measure the strength of women.
That, we can find in our family tree.
Martha did accounting, ran the numbers for the family business until she died.
Sarah scrubbed church floors to make ends meet after her husband
lay down one day and never got up.
Vicenza took a boat to America with children in tow,
learned English and ran an inn for miners.
Pauline sold goods door to door when her husband
lost his arm in the steel mills,
making more money for the family than they had ever had before.
Other Pauline began college when she had five kids and didn’t finish
until she was a psychoanalyst.
We cling to their unwritten stories with tight fists,
promising them we won’t forget,
listen as their legacy cries quietly out to us:
women are made to carry, they are made to bear,
they are built to be strong.
ISSN 2642-0104 (print)
ISSN 2641-7693 (online)
Founding Editor, Juliette Sebock
Elementary School, Charlotte Friedman
a thank you note for my kids, Noreen Ocampo
The Strength of Women, Hannah Napier Rosenberg
Lurking in the side-lines, Nishtha Tripathi
everything school taught me, Trishita Das
We Were Just Kids, Yelaina Anton
Fiction
Beginnings, Mary Sophie Filicetti
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Nina Fosati
Photography
tires at playground, Tucker Lieberman
door with knocker, Tucker Lieberman
In the leadup to schoolhouse, we shared a series of micropoems across social media:
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Hannah Napier Rosenberg resides in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves writing about magic in the ordinary and is wildly interested in seemingly mundane details of daily life. Her poetry has been published in Vita Brevis and Uppagus and is forthcoming in Minor Clash. You can check out some of her other writing online at hannahrowrites.com, find her on Instagram @hannahrowrites, and get in touch via email at hannahrowrites@gmail.com.
