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Nadia Iqbal
Nadia Iqbal is a comedian, writer and actress. She really love cats, especially snow leopards. She is still pretty mad about colonialism.
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Connor Relyea
Connor Relyea is a comedy writer and performer in New York City. His writing has been published on sites such as Hard Drive, Awf Magazine, Weekly Humorist and more. Despite popular rumors, he is not five corgis in a trench coat.
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Giulia De Vita
Hi! I’m Giulia—a beautiful writer and small clown from Vancouver, currently based in London, UK.
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Adrianne Frost
Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, Adrianne Frost is a NYC based performer and writer. Adrianne’s first humor book, I Hate Other People’s Kids, was published by Simon & Schuster; she is featured in The 2004 Signet Book of American Humor, and in Rejected, Tales of The Failed, Dumped And Cancelled. She has written for Millennium Magazine, Pet Lifestyles Magazine, and Comedywire. She has also written for Link AKC, Ask E. Jean, News Makeup, Funny Not Slutty and her latest work, “The Early Works Series”, was published on McSweeney’s. She has taught and performed improv all over the world and been in dozens of national commercials, a few movies and some TV shows.
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Justina Kolb
Justina is co-creator/writer/producer of the late-night live-stream talk show Everything’s Fine Tonight LIVE! w/ Jordan, which can be seen monthly on Twitch. She has performed sketch comedy in the duo Sleepover at festivals such as Portland Sketchfest, Seattle Sketchfest, North Carolina Comedy Festival, She Makes Me Laugh, and NY SketchFest.
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Nicolas Allard
I’m mildly amused by things I read online. I get real thrills from the article-inspired smoothies I make, though. Ottawa, ON.
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Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis is a stand-up comedian who has appeared on Fox, Hulu and ViceTV (check out her insta @me69420 for sketches or upcoming shows if you’re in Texas, y’all). Lauren is a writer for the Emjoy app and her comedy essays have been published in Points in Case, the Belladonna, and 251.net.
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Anna I Wu
Anna is an author of science fiction, horror, and satire.
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William Vaillancourt
William’s humor writing has appeared in Points in Case, Weekly Humorist and The Satirist, among other places. Coincidentally, it has not appeared in other places as well.
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Kasia Kalinowska
Kasia Kalinowska will never run for public office, as she could be assassinated with a stray peanut. Instead, she is a humor and fiction writer in New York City. You can read more of Kasia’s words at www.kasiakalinowska.com and on Twitter @KasiaKalino.
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Libby Marshall
Libby Marshall is a writer, performer, and tall person who lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of the short story collection Penny Pinching Tips for the Morally Bankrupt. Her writing has appeared on Reductress, McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Points In Case, The Belladonna, The Offing, Little Old Lady, and The Weekly Humorist. She loves candles that smell like desserts, funny podcasts, and scarves that are big enough to double as blankets.
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Jenny Crowley
Jenny is a marketing leader, comedy writer, and slow runner living in Chicago. Her words can be found in The Onion, McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Points In Case, and various notebooks in her apt.
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Paul Cecchini
Paul Cecchini is an award-winning freelance writer from Springfield, Missouri, USA who specializes in the fields of entertainment and comedy–mostly because he doesn’t know much about anything else. Likes: Cats, egg nog. Dislikes: Alarm clocks, when people use the phrase “once upon a time” outside the realm of fairy tales.
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Melody Cao
Melody is a curious cat from the Bay Area. She enjoys unfashionably dry humor and non-sequiturs. Plankton.
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Magesh Magesh
As a musician I have worked with Lionel Richie, Rhianna, Ricky Martin, Kimbra, Vernon Reid and a host of other pop stars. As a writer I have written for ‘Drumscene’ magazine, ‘Percussioni’ (Italy), ‘The Modern Rogue’ (USA), ‘Aeyons’ (Australia), Lessonface ‘(USA) and ‘Penlight’ (Canada).
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Nadia Sadri
Nadia is an Iranian-American writer and producer who cannot stop asking her friends if they want to go play tennis. She finds everything interesting, is still not sure if she likes coffee, and loves when people show her new things. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is looking to find friends who want to go play tennis.
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Natalie Hrvatin
Nat Hrvatin is a writer, educator, and performer from Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared in The Belladonna, Greener Pastures Magazine, Slackjaw, and Jane Austen’s Wastebasket. Find her on Twitter and Instagram as @NatHrvatin, or at nathrvatin.com.
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Gwendolyn Coburn
Gwen Coburn is a writer and comedian based in Boston. She has strong opinions about feminism, horses, and gardening TikToks.
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Kath Dunham
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Andy Spain
Andy Spain is a video editor and motion graphics designer living in Durham, NC, with his wife and four children. His humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Weekly Humorist, Slackjaw, and other sites. His debut novel Cash Grab is forthcoming from Humorist Books in 2021.
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Ashley Memory
Ashley Memory is a longtime multiple sclerosis warrior who wishes her name started with a diphthong and thinks it’s not too late to add one. She has also written for Permafrost and The Disappointed Housewife.
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Sai Dharmarajan
Sai is a standup comedian and satire writer currently living in Silver Spring, MD and originally from Chennai, India. He has performed at comedy festivals and venues across the United States including the Jersey City Comedy Festival and Gilda’s Laugh Fest. A pun enthusiast, he’s a former Champion and runner-up of DC Improv’s PUN DMV competition. He’s also a satire contributor for The Lunar Times and The Haven on Medium.
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Alice Lahoda
Alice Lahoda is a writer, shitposter, and comic creator. She would happily break her vegetarianism to eat the rich.
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Karen Gilmore
Karen Gilmore is a writer struggling not to call herself an “aspiring writer”. Her humour writing has appeared in Slackjaw, Little Old Lady Comedy, and The Globe and Mail.
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Tara Millette
Tara Millette is a Canuck comedian based in Philadelphia. She’s an award-avoiding writer whose work has been featured in Reductress, McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Points in Case, and more. She’s also the co-founder of The Honeypot Satire on Medium. You can check out her stuff at taramillette.com, medium.com/the-honeypot, and if you’ve read this far just follow her on Twitter already: @LazyGinger.
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Emily Knapp
Emily Knapp is a writer and comedian living in Colorado. She is originally from Chicago, but fled west because she really likes seeing the sun in February. Her writing has been featured in Writers Resist, McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and other places on the internet. Her apartment currently resides in Golden, but you can find her in the mountains writing, hiking, running, or skiing. If she’s not doing any of that, she is 100% eating tacos.
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Mel Cronenwett
Mel Cronenwett is a freelance writer based in Texas and Michigan, and is aunt to two tanks masquerading as rescue dogs. Her sketch comedy has been produced in Houston, and she is at work on a humorous young adult novel. In her most recent foray into community theatre, she was billed below a cat.
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Brian Gutierrez
Brian Gutierrez is an American humor writer living in the UK. You can find more of his work at www.explainingstuff.com.
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Sean McGowan
Sean McGowan is a Chicago-based comedy writer and performer. He is a headline contributor at ClickHole and his jokes have appeared in The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
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Jenn Knott
Jenn Knott is a TV & comedy writer based in Bavaria, Germany who’s written for publications like McSweeney’s, The American Bystander, The Belladonna, & Weekly Humorist. Find her on Twitter @jkusesherwords or at jennknott.com.