meet the team.
Rachel J Turpin​
Founding Editor
Rachel is a painter, writer and general eclectic being whose work ranges from the realms of ethics and new materialisms to notions of the (political) imagination. Living in Southampton, UK, Rachel also works in charity communications and campaigns on both local and national levels.
Ben Owens
Co-Editor (Non-Fiction)
Ben is a writer from the United Kingdom. He currently lives in Serbia, spending half of his time respectively between the libraries, museums, and coffee shops of Southeastern Europe. The other half is spent beating back the blank page. He tweets occasionally @blaowens
Harshal Desai
Co-Editor (Arts)
Harshal traces life in the silhouettes of neon lights that encompass city outline and the larger identity of the place: of its inhabitants, chipped blocks of architecture, and natural ecosystems that thrive within its peripheries. He is also the co-editor of Parentheses Journal.
Lottie Whalen
Co-Editor (Poetry)
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Lottie is a writer and researcher based in London. She's recently completed a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, which explored the modernist poet Mina Loy's interdisciplinary art practice and decorative aesthetic. She is also the co-founder of 'Decorating Dissidence', an interdisciplinary project aimed at exploring the political, aesthetic, and conceptual qualities of feminine-coded arts from modernism to the contemporary. You can find her on twitter: @DrLottieW
Laura Lamb
Co-Editor (Fiction)
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Laura writes literary fiction with magic realism undertones. Her stories include ‘The Collector’ (Second Prize, Shooter Magazine, 2016) and ‘Joe, Driving through the Night’ (On the Water Anthology, 2017). Her recently finished novel received an honourable mention from the 2018 Disquiet International Literary Prize judges. She works as a freelance editor, writer and proofreader, as well as part-time for a youth arts charity in Southampton. You can find her on Twitter @lamb_agneau
