zine contributors
Rahne Alexander
Rahne Alexander is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Baltimore. Her video art has screened across the US, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, MIX (NYC) and Freewaves (LA) and she was featured in the 2010 rockumentary Riot Acts with her queer art rock power trio, The Degenerettes. The second Degenerettes album, Philosopher Queens, was released in January 2012. www.rahne.com
Michael Farley
Michael Farley is a Baltimore artist, performer, designer, and curator. His work spans a broad spectrum of media and subject matter in response to context. He has exhibited and performed across the Northeastern United States, Canada, and Miami. He received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies from MICA and is working on anMFA at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Kati Green
Kati Green is an illustrator, fine artist, aspiring drummer, and future tattooer living in idyllic Portland, OR. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD in 2005. Since then, she has been winning at life. www.katigreen.com
Martina Kartelo
Martina Kartelo is croatian acctress born and raised in Split, Croatia where she had finished high school.Since she is 16 she has been traveling, working and educating herself all over the world.She has studied in Bosnia, Croatia, Belgium, France, USA and Denmark. She finished her master theatre studies with the thesis “”The aesthetical stakes of nudity in postmodern theatre”. She is professional theatre acctress and drama educator and she has participated in many international projects.She speaks couple of balcanic languages, english and french.Since november 2011, she is living in Reykjavik, Iceland where she is trying to stabilise herself inside artistic path.
Cyriaco Lopez
In the U.S., Cyriaco Lopes’ work has been seen at The Contemporary Art Museums in Baltimore and Saint Louis, at El Museo and at Apexart in NYC. In his native Brazil his work appeared at the National Museum of Fine Arts, The Museums of Modern Art in Rio and Salvador and the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP). His work appeared in art institutions in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Chile, Portugal, and since 2009 it was seen in Guent, Nantes, Belfast, Florianópolis and Genoa. His work has been curated by such artists as Lygia Pape, Janine Antoni, Ryan Trecartin and Luciano Fabro, as well as by art critics such as Paulo Herkenhoff. He is a professor at John Jay College/CUNY in NYC. cyriacolopes.com
Megan McShea
Megan McShea is the author of two chapbooks, Recipes for Greatness (1998) and Yarn! (2000). Her writing has appeared in print in the Shattered Wig Review , Blades, the i.e. reader, and Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and Beyond; and online at Everyday Genius, Superarrow , Rock Heals blog and On Earth As It Is. She lives in Baltimore.
Hilmar Magnusson
Hilmar Magnússon was born in Ísafjörður in 1976 and lives and works in downtown Reykjavík. He is currently working as a project manager at the Reykjavik City Hall, supervising the ‘Better Reykjavik’ project. Hilmar holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark and a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Iceland. He has been politically active since his teens and has been involved with the LGBT community for many years now, culturally as well as politically. He likes meeting and chatting with interesting people, traveling, discovering new culture, listening to music and playing, drinking coffe or beer, enjoying arts, history, swimming and hot yoga. To name but a few things. He also writes for the Reykjavik Grapevine.
Þór Matthías Theódórsson
Thor Matthias is a 28 year old queer trans man from Reykjavik. He is a Geographer who has specialised in Public Health and International Development. He really likes reading, baking, cuddling with cats, and sleeping in.