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  Writer and musician, Ben Simmons was born in Belfast in 1988 and grew up in north-west Donegal. His poetry has appeared in Stand, Templar’s poetry magazine Iota, and included in several publications by Beautiful Dragons Collaborations. In 2016 Ben … Continued

  Rita Anderson has an MFA Poetry and an MA Playwriting. A published and award-winning writer, Rita went on scholarship to The O’Neill. Her play, Frantic is the Carousel, was the National Partners in American Theatre (NAPAT) nominee, and Rita … Continued

  Marcel Darienzo explores the intersection between visual arts, theatre, dance, performance, video, and music through works that discuss self representation. Darienzo worked in different roles – from artist to researcher or curator – in institutions such as ICA, Tenderpixel, … Continued

  Layla Benitez-James is an artist and translator living in Alicante whose poems and translations have appeared in The Acentos Review, Anomaly, Guernica, Waxwing, Revista Kokoro, La Galla Ciencia, and elsewhere. Her audio essays about translation can be found at … Continued

  My name is María Lujan Vivas. I’m 23 years old, I’m from La Plata, Argentina. I am a plastic artist. I’ve done theater and film sets, installations, performance, ceramics, and visuals. I like to experiment with different supports and … Continued

Lauren Cardenas is currently the Assistant Professor of Printmaking, University of Mississippi, Oxford. She is a studio artist who focuses on print media. She was the editor and founder of PIECRUST Magazine (2011-14), which was a biannual art and literary … Continued

  I am a computational biologist working in cancer drug discovery. In the past, I’ve been a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at Tel Aviv University, in San Salvador and in Manhiça, Mozambique. During my PhD studies … Continued

  Vaughn M. Watson is a New York-based emerging writer. He has appeared on NPR and has work published in Flying South and Newtown Literary, among other journals. He was the winner of the 2016 Winston-Salem Writer’s Flying South competition … Continued