Contributors – Widget – a funny website

S.M. Purcell
Sherel writes travel pieces for USA Today 10best.com and others. She has just started publishing short, mostly autobiographical pieces and photography in literary magazines.
Graeme Carey
Graeme Carey is a humor writer from Hamilton, Ontario. You can find his stuff in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, The Offing, Points in Case, and a bunch of other places.
Mary E. McCartney
Mary E. McCartney is a writer and techie nerd based in the Boston area. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s.
Chloé Cunha
Chloé Cunha is a comedian, poet, and occasional sapphic vampire/assassin such as in the retro indie horror film Blood of the Tribades (2016), or The Penumbra Podcast. She is a contributor for satire sites Reductress, Awf Mag, and Plot Twist (and thrilled to have a piece in Widget!) If she were a candy, she would have a hard femme shell with a nougaty butch center.
Lizzy Rudakas
Lizzy Rudakas is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been featured at The iO Comedy Network, The Second City, and comedy festivals around the country. Lizzy is currently very into alien conspiracy theories and would love to talk about it.
Teresa Douglas
Teresa Douglas is a Mexican American woman living in Vancouver BC. The pandemic radicalized her, turning her into a satirist (a.k.a. extremist). Her work has appeared in Points in Case, Slackjaw, Funny_ish and Little Old Lady Comedy. She is an editor at Greener Pastures Magazine.
Eric Lutzuk
Eric is a father, an employee, and a reluctant member of the PMC. When he isn’t attending Zoom meetings, he spends his time thinking up ways to criticize himself and other members of his class. He is currently working on a self-help book about surviving the suburbs which he intends on releasing once his lawn care commitments are fulfilled.
John Hedrick
John Hedrick is a standup comedian who got his [long] legs in the DC comedy scene. Now he resides in New York and is the co-founder of The Lunar Times – the first satire site for ALL Asian Americans. Give them a follow on IG and Twitter @The_Lunar_Times!
Elisabeth Del Toro
Elisabeth is based in Chicago! She is an actor/comedian/fake job pursuer and she loves to put yesterday’s coffee in the fridge even when there is only a few sips left.
Adam Dietz
Adam Dietz is a writer and the host of The last Writing Podcast. His work has been featured in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, and Defenestration. He lives in Milwaukee with his partner and their two cats.
K. Alexandra Mills
K. Alexandra Mills is an educator and freelance writer based out of Detroit, Michigan. She teaches high school English, works as an editor for Wizards in Space Literary Magazine, and contributes to various outlets like Black Girls Create and Nerdist. When not contemplating her next project, she enjoys volleyball, trivia, and being a Ravenclaw.
Megan Rogers
Megan Rogers is a humor writer based in the Pacific Northwest. When she’s not writing, she’s taking her tiny dog for long walks.
Kendra Augustin
Kendra Augustin writes short plays, and sketch comedy, and pilots, and web series, and poetry sometimes. Her acting career fantasy is simply doing classical plays and absurdist theatre.
Makayla Salas
Makayla is a picky eater who watches Frances Ha too often. Her genius thoughts have appeared in The Onion, Awf Mag, FLEXX Mag, Points In Case, and more.
Nick DiMaso
Nick DiMaso (he/him) is a writer, performer, and clown from Chicago, whose work has run at The Second City, McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist, and more! He loves dogs but is genuinely afraid of horses.
Alison Lowenstein
Alison Lowenstein is a freelance writer and author of guidebooks, children’s books, and plays. Her humor has published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna Comedy, Slackjaw, Greener Pastures, The Hairpin, The Haven, and other publications. You can find her at brooklynbaby.com.
Jenna Nobs
Jenna is a humor writer based in Seattle. Her work has appeared on Slackjaw and Points in Case.
Alec Moore
Alec Moore is a writer, producer, actor and comedian. He’s currently co-producing his first feature film from a script he wrote, “Advanced Chemistry”. Alec graduated from UCLA’s MFA in Screenwriting program in 2014. His web series “The Public Offender” would be very critically acclaimed if critics were aware of it. His mother will also be happy to tell you additional nice things about him. Alec is a Brooklyn native and a graduate of Haverford College, a school so prestigious that most people have never heard of it. He appreciates that you have read all the way to the end of his bio.
Mayur Chauhan
Mayur Chauhan is an L.A based immigrant-actor-comedian-writer.
Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan is a writer from New York who writes about entertainment, food, sex, and other things that people like.
Domenico Siravo
Domenico Siravo is a humor writer and proud bunny dad based out of Philadelphia. His work has been featured in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, and Points in Case. He is often mistaken for the guy on the cover of pizza boxes.
Susan Sassi
Susan Sassi is a TV writing competition finalist, satirist, stand-up comedian, and professional Cathy impersonator living in Los Angeles. Her web series Cathy In Real Life, a parody of lovable chocoholic Cathy Comic strip, was an official selection of multiple film festivals, including Dances with Films, CineFest, IFS, WRPN, LA Comedy Fest, and Etheria Film Night. Susan has published satire in Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, Robot Butt, Jane Austen’s Wastebasket, Little Old Lady Comedy, The Platypus News, and Greener Pastures. Follow her on social media to see so many cat photos, that you’ll worry about her well-being.
Gracie Beaver-Kairis
Gracie Beaver-Kairis is a humor and fiction writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, Belladonna Comedy, and other publications. Despite living in Oregon for her entire life, she has never seen Sasquatch and is salty about it.
Catherine Weingarten
Catherine Weingarten is a Brooklyn-based playwright, comedy writer, and wedding cake lover. Her writing has been featured on McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Slackjaw and Tinder.
Bridget Fahrland
Your average middle-aged lesbian mom with something to say. Work has appeared in The Belladonna, Slackjaw, Points In Case, Little Old Lady Comedy and in the underrated feed of @BFahrland.
Nam Cheah
Nam Cheah is a third culture millennial who spent half her life in Hong Kong and the other half in UK. With a passion for travel, hiking, food, and puns, she documents her travel on her suitably named blog: Laugh, Travel, Eat. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s either catching up on TV while online shopping or writing her novels.
Yuqi Hou
Yuqi Hou is a product manager and writer based in Maryland. Her writing has appeared in places like Points in Case, The Belladonna, and Slackjaw. She grew up in Kansas and is aware she’s not in Kansas anymore.
Christina Wyman
Christina Wyman is a teacher and writer. She’s funniest after she’s had coffee (but she hasn’t had coffee in six years).
Summer Koester
Summer Koester is an award-winning writer, poet, and teacher whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s, the Belladonna, and Slackjaw, among others. She lives in Juneau, Alaska, where she spends her free time growing vegetables in a cold rainforest to feed an army of slugs.
Tyler Gooch
Tyler Gooch is a writer and comedian living in Southern California. His writing can be found on various humor sites around the internet and he personally can be found at a variety of reputable donut establishments throughout the United States.