COVER PIECE: The Twinkle in Your Mind
Kennedy Timmons
Kennedy Timmons is an African American mixed-media artist born in Kingwood, Texas in 2004. Currently dividing her time between Central Texas and New Orleans, Timmons is working on her BA in Visual Arts and a minor in Business Administration from Dillard University. Timmons’ practice is based on using her art to create unique, pseudo-fictional, stylistic worlds to explore her identity as she transitions into adulthood, black youth, the spectrum of blackness, and the black experience in the American South. This manifests in introspective and figurative work that combines childhood memories and lived experiences with the emotional attachment Timmons has to them now.
Afternoon Sip
Anwen Thomas
Anwen Thomas is a photographer and visual storyteller whose work leans into mood, texture, and the small details people usually miss. Through her lens, everyday scenes become narrative, less about spectacle and more about atmosphere and feeling. Her portfolio at AnwenThomas.com showcases a range of work rooted in observation, composition, and a love of candid moments.
Alongside her creative practice, Anwen works in marketing and design, bringing a storyteller’s eye to mission-driven communications. She is currently completing her M.A. in Marketing at Emerson College, where she continues to explore the space where art, audience, and meaning intersect.
Chloris
Manisha Jukareddy
Manisha Jukareddy’s art blends a vibrant color palette with magical realism to best reflect the world’s latent beauty. Working primarily through oil paints and mixed media, she creates works that borrow from beloved folklore, Indian cultural heritage, and literary symbolism. Her paintings uncover the shape and texture of what the world could be rather than what it is. It reflects elements of wonder that make up the DNA behind human imagination. Manisha aspires to place these elements into tangible images; alive, mortal, and materialized on canvas.
Disoriented Wood
Denver Boxleitner
Denver Boxleitner is a university fine arts student whose drawings, paintings, poems and short stories have been published.
Heart of Light
Juli Davina
Juli Davina is an artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on the relationship between people and lights. Her projects primarily consist of close friends and scenes that represent her relationship with the people who are in front of the camera and the relationship that she builds with them. In 2023, her work was exhibited at the Snowden International Art Show. She is currently pursuing her BFA in photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Meet Us in the Trees
Anwen Thomas
Anwen Thomas is a photographer and visual storyteller whose work leans into mood, texture, and the small details people usually miss. Through her lens, everyday scenes become narrative, less about spectacle and more about atmosphere and feeling. Her portfolio at AnwenThomas.com showcases a range of work rooted in observation, composition, and a love of candid moments.
Alongside her creative practice, Anwen works in marketing and design, bringing a storyteller’s eye to mission-driven communications. She is currently completing her M.A. in Marketing at Emerson College, where she continues to explore the space where art, audience, and meaning intersect.
Red String Theory
Kiera Fisher
Kiera Fisher is a Cincinnati-based Muralist and Mixed Media Artist who embraces bold, brilliant, and vibrant colors, patterns, and imagery to create art that makes you think, and makes your inner child jump for joy. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, incorporating her lived experiences into her work, which frequently depicts figures and their relationship to people, places, and things. She works with a variety of media and materials, including anything from illustration, to textiles, to fine arts.
Swan
Nola Sabo
Nola Sabo is a photographer and filmmaker from Austin, TX. She has a passion for using vivid colors to tell stories and often uses light and texture to add depth and emotion to every frame.
Instagram Handle: nola.film
teenage dream
Sia Mehta
Sia Mehta is a New York City–based and NYU Tisch-educated filmmaker, writer, and producer whose work centers on the dichotomy of femininity, women of color and underrepresented voices. She explores youth, grief and coming of age through intimate storytelling across documentary, photography, narrative film, and writing; she is currently in post-production for her fourth narrative short film. Sia has worked with the Toronto International Film Festival, Stay Gold Productions, Lincoln Center Film and CineFrance programming, as well as numerous independent productions, and is a member of New York Women in Film and Television.
The COVID Nightmare
Donald Patten
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine. To view his online portfolio, visit @donald.patten on Instagram.
The Forgotten God
Valentine Kocaj
Valentine Kocaj is a student at Pace University. They are studying Art History, with an interest in fashion and architecture. This is their first time being published in a literary magazine! In their free time they like to draw, read, and write. They are currently working on their first book! IG: @count_vampyre
The King and the Diamond Market
Ishwarya Krishna
Ishwarya Krishna is a multidisciplinary artist, working in film, music, digital art and inks. They seek to represent and explore what it means to be a postcolonial subject as a queer, Malaysian-Indian-American artist. As the world recovers from continued colonial violence, their art speaks to culture as currency, myth-making as power, and the imagination as the site of discourse. In 2025, Ishwarya published the prologue of their webcomic, I Sing Praises for Hari on Webtoon, which continues to be an outlet to explore themes of recovery, regression, and revolution. The first chapter is expected to release in the Summer of 2026.
Waiting
Olivia Greenberg
Olivia Greenberg is a photographer, writer, and bookmaker from Rockaway, New Jersey. She received her BFA in fine art photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2024. She is now living in Boston, pursuing her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, with an expected graduation of May 2026. Her work has been featured in Sidelines and Draft Magazines as well as exhibited in the Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition.