The Team

Mackenzie Rae

i think too much. as a result, my mind often craves a way to escape;

words are the antidote.

and this is me.

bleeding out for you,

within characters.

Mackenzie has enjoyed the written word for as long as she could remember. There is a slight contradiction, however, given that she prefered writing over reading in these early years. She enjoyed the feeling of the words penetrating from her mind all the way through her fingertips. Her love for reading was found shortly after, along with her deep connection to books in all varieties. Aside from hoping to spread her love for reading to more classic works, she spends most of her time thinking about the color yellow and pizza.

Nina DeRespino

I doubt, I deliberate and I drink my coffee

And when I can’t stand it all inside me anymore

I write.

Stories sometimes, essays sometimes, even odd attempts at poetry.

It is as I once told my cousin, earnestly, over late breakfast in her apartment in France.

‘I must have words.’

Nina’s love for writing in particular and storytelling in general finds its roots in a need to understand and define all the beautiful, mundane and terrible things around her. And, too, an insatiable need to live many lives without leaving her couch. Her love of reading began at age 3 and while her reading speed has decreased since then, her pleasure in the knowledge and beauty contained in books has not. C.S. Lewis is possibly her greatest hero, and her favorite ways to procrastinate include painting, singing and, well, venting her often bottled emotions by watching British TV shows.

Abigail Lennah

Abigail Lennah is a Filipino-American currently residing in one of the most beautiful northwestern of the fifty states. Through the power of her vivid writing aligned with her morals and perception of the world, she crafts stories featuring the unnoticed and gray areas between good & evil clashing clashing together to form the coherent tragedy and beauty present in this entangling mess called life. In her spare time, she can be found in the "real" world, as her theatre director calls it, with a (note)book at hand, volunteering at the library while making terrible puns, or taking photos with friends inside a photo booth. You can visit her at her blog, ups & downs.

Anna