contributors | issue 1
Andrew Losowsky | Christopher Mabry | Elissa Goetschius | Elizabeth Boskey | Garnet Burke
Jack Stratton | Kevin Clark | Rich Watts | Rose Ginsberg | Rose Jasper Fox | Sara Eileen Hames
Andrew Losowsky
www.losowsky.com
@twitsplosion
Andrew Losowsky likes to make things out of stories.
He’s written for Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Believer, as well as the books We Love Magazines, The Doorbells of Florence, and Visual Storytelling.
Andrew co-curated the independent magazine festival Colophon, co-directs the experience company The Museum On Site, and runs Stack America, a subscription club for people who love magazines. He was previously the editorial director of the European publishing company Le Cool, creating award-winning books, magazines and websites.
Andrew Losowsky is currently the Books Editor at The Huffington Post. He lives in New York City.
Christopher Mabry
@NinjaPlease
christophermabry.com
Christopher studied physics at the College of the Holy Cross, and photography at the Corcoran College of Art and the Center for Digital Imageing Arts of Boston University. He is currently working as a freelance photographer in the Washington DC area. He also creates artwork in a variety of mediums including scupture, videography and music.
Elissa Goetschuis
@egoetschius
Elissa Goetschius is a DC-based artist. Recent projects include an inter-disciplinary installation piece for the 24 Hour City Project presented at the Intelligent Cities Conference and again as part of Digital Capital Week. Recent theatre work includes developing and directing a tour of short plays with patients at St Elizabeths Hospital (REFLECTIONS, Wandering Souls) and directing NIGHT SWEATS with the interdisciplinary EMP Collective in Baltimore. Formerly the Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, she developed many world premiere plays including Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, boom by Peter Nachtrieb, and Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan. She has worked as a dramaturg at Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Florida Stage, Rorschach Theatre, Forum Theatre, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has worked for Manhattan Theatre Club and the Royal Shakespeare Company, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, studied at the British American Drama Academy, and holds a degree in English from Columbia University.
Elizabeth Boskey
elizabethboskey.com
@Melebeth
Elizabeth Boskey, Ph.D. is a woman of many hats – most of them knitted in bright colors with googly eyes and floppy ears. Although these days she is primarily a freelance writer and editor who specializes in sexual wellness and animal health (not at the same time!), her other careers have included medical school professor, women’s health researcher, voiceover actress, renaissance festival performer, and front woman for a Klezmer/Irish fusion band.
According to Google, Elizabeth’s primary influence on the world is through her work as the Guide to Sexually Transmitted Diseases at About.com (http://std.about.com), but she also dispenses humorous contraception advice at 101waysyoucantgetpregnant.com and regularly sells her prose (both fiction and non-fiction) to the highest most-interesting bidder. Her home on the web is elizabethboskey.com, but if you really want to know what she’s up to, you’re better off following her on twitter @Melebeth or @About_STD. She can’t wait to participate in the literary flash mob known as Twenty Four magazine.
Garnet Burke
garnetsnaps.com
@BleakWorld
By day, Garnet keeps companies up and running. By night, Garnet takes photographs.
Jack Stratton
Art Director
writingdirty.com
@writingdirty
Jack Stratton is a graphic designer, writer, and eBook publisher. He has been writing in one form or another for about two decades, from the strange and heady days of BBS’s to Usenet groups, to blogs and now eBooks. He has always been curious about how and why people write online and how anonymity and community affect literature. He is also fascinated by media of all kinds and how mediums affect messages. As well, he’s pretty keen on all things postmodern, fan fiction, meta, kink and sexuality, ties, men’s fashion, fancy things, fancy gadgets, shiny objects, pretty people.
Kevin Clark
kevinclarkcomposer.com
@kevinefclark
Kevin is a composer, a producer of creative projects for film, theater and web, and Communications Manager at New Music USA. He writes music that tells stories using literature, theater, marimbas, cellos and plenty of jokes. He also blogs about the future of the arts. And cocktails.
Recent projects include a new music variety night, Ruckus Amongstus, which splits the difference between the Muppet Show and avant-garde music, with cocktails. Videos from the show are being posted to YouTube. He’s also produced films of his pieces. Cucumbers & Gin, a film of a solo violin piece, was funded on Kickstarter, and a case study of project was awarded by TechDirt. The Seafarer, a film of a piece for solo acting cello, setting an Old English poem translated by Burton Raffel, is screening at the Super 8 Film Festival.
On March 17, Rhymes With Opera is hosting a salon that will include a new piece from Kevin for two actors, lute, saxophone and small ensemble. Not a note of it exists yet.
Rich Watts
richwatts.com
@wattsei
Rich is a code-wrangling graphic designer and fabricator, currently in the midst of building a distillery from scratch. Rich has held jobs as a bookseller,waiter, carpenter, computer nerd, web developer, and designer. He’s a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Rose Ginsberg
@MsEnScene
Rose Ginsberg is an NYC-based stage director who enjoys political theatre, experimental music theatre, classic plays, and everything in between. Favorite directing credits include Ethan’s People (Midtown International Theatre Festival, nominated for 4 awards; Manhattan Theatre Source); Hourglass (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Winner, Best Playwriting Short Form; Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA; Variations Theatre Group Harvest One-Act Play Festival, Finalist, Best Play); Jean Anouilh’s Antigone (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), and numerous new one-act plays for ESPA’s Detention series (Jimmy’s No. 43). Rose is an artistic associate at the Looking Glass Theatre, where she has helmed more than 10 productions, including Ready, Set, Story!: How Katie Saved the Sneaky Spider’s Tales, The Taming of the Shrew, and benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues (2007, 2011) and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer (2010, upcoming 2012) for Eve Ensler’s V-Day Campaign. Her work has also been seen at the Flea Theatre, ArtHouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dixon Place, the Brooklyn Heights Public Library, Central Park, and the High Line. Rose is a graduate of Barnard College and a student at Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts.
Rose Jasper Fox
Copy Chief
www.copymancer.com
@rosefox
Rose Jasper Fox has been editing periodical publications for most of her life, beginning with Hunter College High School’s long-running science fiction and fantasy magazine, Tapestry. She now edits book reviews for Publishers Weekly and mentors the current Tapestry staff. She lives in New York City with two partners, three cats, seven computers, and several thousand books.
Sara Eileen Hames
Editor In Chief
saraeileen.com
@saraeileen
Sara is a writer, marketer, editor and event producer with a passion for artistic storytelling and shiny gadgets. Her current and past professional credits include: brand consultation for startups in Brooklyn; writing content for interactive installations in art museums; running marketing and corporate events for a technology consulting firm; developing marketing material for a funded startup in Australia; co-founding an unconference; and teaching children to ski.
Sara holds a BA from Columbia University and a Masters of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. Her journalism, non-fiction and award-winning short fiction have been published internationally. She thinks a great deal (perhaps too much) about the blend of technology and art, and is in the habit of launching strange events and publishing ventures.
She started twenty-four magazine because she is lucky enough to know a number of brilliant, talented, and extremely busy people, and wanted a good reason to work with them.
