ISSUE IX CONTRIBUTORS

Tricia Patras is a writer from Chicago who has been published within multiple mediums across the globe, Maudlin House, Business Insider, and BUST, to name a few. Patras’s work can also be found on their poetry Instagram account of 8,000+ followers, @achainofthoughts and newsletter with over 3,000+ subscribers on Substack. Patras has also been interviewed for Medium.

Ryo Kajitani is a Tokyo-based artist and queer art model. Their nonbinary and asexual identity informs both their modeling presence and artistic practice. 🏳️‍🌈

Kajitani holds a Ph.D. in Arts from Tama Art University, where their studies included oil based printmaking and research focused on ontological aesthetics especially Heidegger's theory of art.

Now working as an art model and designer in Tokyo, Kajitani integrates their background in printmaking and modeling into a photographic practice that merges analog and computational methods (Python). Notable recent recognition includes the Montage Award at Meta Morph AI Awards (UK, 2024) and the Asian Digital Art Award FUKUOKA (Japan, 2024).

Drawing from personal experiences of assault, they also engage in international humanitarian aid, supporting orphans and ex-offenders reintegrating into society.

Rin Sangar grew up in Bicester, England, where they were raised on a steady diet of fantasy stories, Meat Loaf songs, and horror films. They studied psychology in a red-bricked and swampy town in Florida, before moving to Edinburgh for a more cobblestoned and colder change of pace. They enjoy consuming horror stories in any given medium, whisky-based cocktails, and spending time with their cat.

Liang's work explores the hidden fractures and quiet leakages within LGBTQ+ experience—those emotional and bodily ruptures that are often obscured by systems claiming to be open, rational, or safe. The fusion of flesh and faucet becomes a metaphor for the exhaustion of identity and the slow erosion of the body under invisible control.

As a gender fluid artist, Liang move through environments that label themselves as neutral, yet constantly demand adjustment. The body becomes a conduit. It carries water, memory, pressure. No one asks where the flow begins or what is lost in the process.

These works trace a soft violence. They follow the moments when skin begins to recall what it has endured, when function gives way to feeling, and when the self pushes back through rupture.

Kelly Lynn (she/her) is a queer author from east-central Indiana, where she lives with her two polar opposite pooches. She has been previously published in TPT Magazine, as well as Gabby & Min, Anodyne Magazine, in parentheses literary magazine, and more. In her free time, Lynn pretends to write her debut novel but mostly watches YouTube or plays FFXIV.

Æ et al. is a collective of a dozen individuals residing in a single body due to dissociative identity disorder. Their work examines memory, trauma, perception, and the sense of "self" they contend with every day as they navigate a world that believes they're a singular entity.