SUMMER 2021 WRITERS
Indigo Eriksen
Raised in Colorado and Virginia, J. Indigo Eriksen earned her BA from Lewis & Clark College before moving to Guatemala and Mexico. She received her MFA from Mills College and MA in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. She is a doctoral candidate at George Mason University in Virginia, where she lives again, and Associate Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. Her creative work has appeared in the Texas Review Press (forthcoming, 2022), District Fray (July 2020), The Northern Virginia Review, Scratching Against the Fabric, Endlessly Rocking, and TYCA-SE Journal. She was awarded the 2019 Mary Roberts Rinehart prize in nonfiction from GMU. Her work explores feminism, oppression, and loss. Indigo is a dedicated whiskey drinker.
ChelseaDee Harrison
ChelseaDee is a multi-hyphenate, interdisciplinary creator and arts educator. Specializing in theater-making, she performs, teaches, curates,
co-facilitates, develops curriculum, directs, and produces arts events. Her focus is creating new works of theater that highlight history and challenge dominant narratives and ensuring art is a tool in the hands of the people.
Jessica Rapisarda
Jessica Rapisarda is a poet and essayist. She has been published in phoebe, Capsule Stories, Grace & Gravity, jubilat, The Potomac Review, HuffPost, The Good Men Project, and more. She was a cast member of the Listen to Your Mother DC storyteller series. She teaches writing at Northern Virginia Community College, where she serves on the editorial board of The Northern Virginia Review. Before succumbing to the siren song of the classroom, Jessica worked as a strategic communications analyst for the Intelligence Community, a freelance parenting writer, and as an editor for the National Academy of Sciences, among other things. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Jessica now resides with her husband and 8-year-old son in Alexandria, Virginia.
Follow her at jessicarapisarda.com
Monica Romo
Monica is a Washington D.C.-based Chicana writer and activist drawn to multilingualism and mixing poetry and prose in her work. she moved through Silicon Valley desk jobs in marketing and tech copywriting before leaving home to campaign for womxn and Latinx leaders in electoral politics and work to build movements to advance health care and gender, racial, and economic justice. She has led creative writing workshops for young adults and community-based art/poetry initiatives and is committed to creating more space for those whose voices have been marginalized to speak.
Anna Tipton
Anna was born and raised in Indiana. After studying prose writing at the University of St Andrews, she moved to Richmond, where she writes direct marketing for universities. She's currently writing her debut novel with Hidden Shelf Publishing.