Sheena Hussain
Sheena Hussain is a Bradford born Poet from the UK. She is a non-practising immigration lawyer who came to poetry after having received a cancer diagnosis. During her recover she wrote and published her first collection, “Memories of a Poet, My Road My Recovery”. She is the founder of Poem:99, a national children’s poetry competition.
Sheena Hussain is a Bradford born Poet from the UK. She is a non-practising immigration lawyer who came to poetry after having received a cancer diagnosis. During her recover she wrote and published her first collection, “Memories of a Poet, My Road My Recovery”. She is the founder of Poem:99, a national children’s poetry competition. She is published in Porridge Magazine, Purse Slush, Cambridge-Hall Poetry Journal and more.
Adriana Acevedo
A self-described lesbian Mexican writer, translator, and fiction addict, Adriana Acevedo's work has been mostly horror and speculative fiction, while dabbling in comedy and non-fiction. She is currently working on her first book: a compilation of horror short stories. She enjoys writing and reading about food, movies and beer.
Sophia Hotung
Sophia Hotung is a disabled writer and illustrator from Hong Kong. Her work revolves around gender, technology, disability, and the Eurasian experience. She produces and co-hosts Art Frat Rejects Write a Murder Mystery, a comedic crime podcast, and holds a degree in English from Barnard, the women's college at Columbia University in New
Sophia Hotung is a disabled writer and illustrator from Hong Kong. Her work revolves around gender, technology, disability, and the Eurasian experience. She produces and co-hosts Art Frat Rejects Write a Murder Mystery, a comedic crime podcast, and holds a degree in English from Barnard, the women's college at Columbia University in New York.
Read her work in issue II of samfiftyfour and as a runner-up in our scary story contest.
Carlos Lievonen
Antoniya Boyanova
Carlos Lievonen is a philosopher and writer of Finno-Hispanic origin. He writes both poety and prose in several languages and has been published in most major Finnish literary periodicals. He enjoys existentialism, pessimism, and sci-fi as a philosophical device. He earnestly questions the value of verse as well as that of life without it, and regularly publishes found poetry on Instagram
Antoniya Boyanova
Antoniya Boyanova
Antoniya Boyanova
Antoniya Boyanova, originally from a small town in Bulgaria, spent 4 years in Aberdeen, Scotland before moving to Berlin in 2019 where she is currently studying for her master's degree in neuroscience. She describes herself as a "scientist by day, but a poet on the way" as most of her works were written while travelling.
Mollie Swayne
Antoniya Boyanova
Antoniya Boyanova
Mollie Swayne holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee. She served as the Nonfiction Editor for Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts from 2017-18, and her work has appeared in Euphony, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She currently works in local news.
Brendan Press
Mack Cillmahon
Mack Cillmahon
Brendan Press is a poet, short story writer, and bartender. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens College. Born and raised in Queens, NY, he now calls the Hudson Valley home. His first collection 'Beating the Drum' is out now
Mack Cillmahon
Mack Cillmahon
Mack Cillmahon
Mack Cillmahon is a writer in his late twenties. Hailing from County Monaghan, Ireland, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He writes fiction and poetry inspired by the mundane and the supermundane. He enjoys outings to the supermarket as if they were museums and observing the stray cats that pass through the back yard. His first colle
Mack Cillmahon is a writer in his late twenties. Hailing from County Monaghan, Ireland, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He writes fiction and poetry inspired by the mundane and the supermundane. He enjoys outings to the supermarket as if they were museums and observing the stray cats that pass through the back yard. His first collection, Gymnasium To Go, will be self-published in 2021.
Adriana Rocks
Mack Cillmahon
Adriana Rocks
Adriana Rocks is a poet, copywriter, journalist, and translator currently located in Berlin, De, the closest thing she has to a hometown. Having been born in Prague, raised in New York and Berlin, and educated in Amsterdam and Hong Kong, Adriana is something of a nomad. Armed with a degree from Amsterdam University College in media and
Adriana Rocks is a poet, copywriter, journalist, and translator currently located in Berlin, De, the closest thing she has to a hometown. Having been born in Prague, raised in New York and Berlin, and educated in Amsterdam and Hong Kong, Adriana is something of a nomad. Armed with a degree from Amsterdam University College in media and cultural analysis, she is now pursuing a career encompassing all kinds of writing. In her spare time, Adriana enjoys cooking elaborate meals for her friends and family, getting lost in foreign cities, and dancing until dawn.