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- Meet the dedicated, beautiful people who make up the MASKS literary team -
L.A. Hawbaker
Editor in Chief | Art DirectorLaura (she/her) founded MASKS while serving as the 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the Aesthetics of Research. She writes for PopMatters and Modern Luxury. Her work has also appeared in The Chicago Tribune, TimeOut, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and others. Laura served as the 2021 Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Creative Communication. She was awarded The Tusculum Review 2021 Fiction Prize and received the 2021-22 Friends of American Writers Award. www.lahawbaker.com
Instagram @laurahawbaker Twitter @laurahawbaker |
C.T. Lisa
Managing EditorC.T. (he/him) is a person of great intensity and few interests—which include books, running, eating, and playing air drums with cooking utensils. He has worked as a copywriter, English teacher, editorial intern at The Georgia Review, football stadium t-shirt seller, lifeguard, movie theater usher, and tutor. C.T. holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Read his award-winning words in Hypertext Magazine and Sundamaged, and listen to his spoken word & music collaboration, TRiO. www.ctlisa.com
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Nisha Atalie
Poetry EditorNisha Atalie (she/her) is a mixed poet from the Pacific Northwest. She loves reading and writing at the intersections of ecology, race, colonialism, and the nonhuman world. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Blood Orange Review, CALYX, Tinderbox Poetry, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2021 Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize. Nisha is an incoming doctoral student in literary studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Christie Valentin-Bati
Poetry EditorChristie (she/her) holds an MFA in poetry and serves as a writing instructor at Columbia College Chicago. She writes and photographs the quotidian and takes care of her houseplants. She's had work published in Pandemic Post and Writers Resist. She received honorable mention in the 2021 Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize and won second place at Columbia University's 2020 Poetry Contest.
Instagram @_christieos_ Twitter @christiee0_0 |
Noah Zanella
Poetry EditorNoah (he/they) holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in physics and the written arts from Bard College. As a reader and editor, he is most interested in experimental poetry, modernist novels, and the philosophy of language. His poetry explores the relationship between seeing and saying. He is the recipient of the 2022 Eileen Lannan Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
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Bernie Groves
Fiction EditorBernie (she/her) is a writer currently working toward an MFA in creative writing. She travels whenever she can and likes to jot down interesting sights. She has work in Daastan Literary Magazine, Literary Yard, and others. Her work has also been included in an anthology published by Clarendon Publishing House. Groves lives in Chicago with her partner and a cat named Mouse.
Instagram @xx_bvg_xx |
Rachel Martin
Fiction EditorRachel (she/her) is a writer, blogger, and journalist. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing at Bowling Green State University, where she was the editor in chief of Prairie Margins. Rachel's a fan of process-narratives, world mythologies, manga/graphic novels, and learning new things while being entertained. She's an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia.
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Des Salazar
Fiction EditorDes (they/them) is a few unicorns standing on top of one another in a trench coat. Their experiences include: working with kids at a therapeutic school, writing fantasy, taking care of their dog, and making a pact with the new chinchillas in the house. They're pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and serve as an assistant fiction editor for Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose.
Instagram @des_does_arts |
Meg Jerit
Nonfiction EditorMeg (she/her) is a nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. She moved to Chicago from her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, though she does not identify as a Southern belle. Her bear-like companion, photographed above, runs her life. Meg's work primarily concerns the idea of excavation, unearthing meaning, truth, and justice—or lack thereof. She is pro big ideas and loves sentence-level experimentation.
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Vonnie McClendon
Nonfiction EditorVonnie (she/her) is a Chicago-born, suburb-raised writer who's pursuing her MFA in creative writing. She supports the Survivor for Lupus Foundation of America. Vonnie also loves fantasy lit and doll collecting. She says writing is a way to work through life's difficulties in order to do the same for others. Her motto: Save the world one pen stroke at a time.
Instagram: @msvonniebee Twitter: jmcclendon21 |
Tinia Montford
Nonfiction EditorTinia (she/her) is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing and received her bachelor's in English at the University of San Francisco. She loves 80s sitcoms and will consume anything with chocolate. She's written a couple of novels and is working on one right now. Her writing has been published in Allium: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.
Instagram: @tiniawritesbooks |
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MASKS Literary Magazine is sponsored by the Columbia College Chicago Library and was founded as part of the Aesthetics of Research Program-an ongoing series of exhibits, events, and other shenanigans dedicated to exploring the role that libraries play in artistic process, creative community building, and resource-sharing in the arts.
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