Contributors

Aarik Danielsen is the arts editor at the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri and teaches at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He writes a regular column, The (Dis)content, for Fathom Magazine, and has been published at Image Journal, Plough, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, EcoTheo Review, and more.
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Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. In his photographic work, he is primarily drawn to the patterns and imagery of nature. His images have been published as cover art in Red Rock Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and The Scriblerus. His work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Humana Obscura, SPECTRA Poets, and EcoTheo Review. He is editor in chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal. See more of his work on Instagram @aaronlelito.
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Adam London is the multi-instrumental producer behind the ambient project ‘Bedroom’. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois his music is aimed heavily toward the ambient listener. Filled with swelling guitars, stretched field recordings, and breathing drone elements Bedroom’s tranquil compositions will leave you feeling as if a wave of calmness has hit you. His subtle yet impactful guitar work are one of the many stand out elements heard in his music. Bedroom’s music paints the perfect picture of love, loss and hope. Since his debut album in 2018 his releases have become more emotionally driven without steering away from his minimalistic approach. Be on the look-out for a new release from him in 2023. Listen to Bedroom on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
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Aletia Shaw is a writing coach based between the Netherlands and Bristol. Currently studying for a master’s in International Land and Water Management, she can often be found near her local river, dabbling in poetry or swimming. Her research focuses on environmental justice in education from a feminist perspective; she is interested in knowledge creation and whose knowledge ‘counts’.
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Benjamin Bridson is a writer from North West England and a graduate of the University of Bristol and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. His work has been performed in theatres across Edinburgh and Bristol; Rocket Man was featured in the Bristol Old Vic Open Sessions 2016, while The Dee was programmed to play at the Hope Theatre, Liverpool in 2020 before being postponed by the pandemic. His poem The Football Phone-in is published in the LAMDA Verse and Prose Anthology Vol. 19 and is studied by young people across the UK. Benjamin is currently based in Madrid.

Charlotte Bunney is an illustrator, fine artist, and writer. She has just finished her BA in Classics at the University of Oxford and MA in Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Her work generally centres around the classical world and the natural world. She enjoys working with a variety of media and styles but particularly enjoys mixing text and image. A full list of her publications and her portfolio can be found on her website: charlottebunneyart.squarespace.com
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Daniel Mountain (@danmtn) is a writer and teacher living in Cheltenham Spa.
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Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, HAD, Threepenny Review, and TriQuarterly, as well as other journals and magazines.
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Julia Biggs is a writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Ink Poetry, The Crow’s Quill Magazine, Words & Whispers, Not Deer Magazine and Hungry Ghost Magazine. Her current research explores haunting seascapes and the delicious excesses of the Gothic mode.
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Kathleen Keenan is a writer and children’s book editor in Toronto, Canada. Her essays and other writings have appeared online at Book Riot, The Billfold, and Reel Honey, among others. She holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria.
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Katie Holloway is a UEA Creative Writing graduate who has had a diverse career, from editing niche craft magazines, to running activities for those with dementia. Her writing is fueled by strong tea and snatches of alone time. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, gardening, making preserves, or doing the school run. She lives in the south of England, and in 2022 was awarded a DYCP grant from the Arts Council England.
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Dr. Kellie Brown is a violinist, conductor, music educator, and award-winning writer whose book, The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation during the Holocaust and World War II (McFarland Publishing, 2020), received one of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles award. Her words have appeared in Earth & Altar and Musing as well as in numerous academic journals such as the American String Teacher. She has forthcoming essays in Calla Press, Psaltery & Lyre, and Writerly Magazine, and a book chapter for Oxford University Press. More information about her and her writing can be found at www.kelliedbrown.com.
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Rebecca Dempsey‘s recent works are featured in The Ekphrastic Review, Unstamatic, and Streetcake Magazine. Rebecca lives in Melbourne / Naarm Australia and can be found at WritingBec.com.

Our Editors
Jessica Peng (@jessxyp) lives and writes in London. In 2022 she graduated from UCL with an English degree and took a job in the arts. She writes about culture and other mundanities on her Substack and edits poetry at The Primer.
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Swinging between writing and image-making, Mihaela Elena Man is a Romanian-born artist, producer, and editor drawn to exploring how everyday stories, angles, and textures feed into broader developments of culture. A recent graduate of art practice and theory degrees from The Ruskin School of Art and The Courtauld Institute of Art, she is fascinated by the meeting point between material culture, nature, technology, contingency, and memory, particularly in relation to recent forms of visual art and literature.
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Nicole Fan is drawn to all kinds of enigmas and loves exploring critical questions in creative ways. Having recently graduated from University College London with a BA in English, she is now pursuing an MSt in Early Modern English at the University of Oxford alongside running The Primer. Unableto resist the pull of old bookshops, sunny parks, and art galleries, she can usually be found wandering around them throughout her week.


Image Credits
Photographs are courtesy of Unsplash; additional graphics are adapted from online open-source images.