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Meet our amazing contributors, without whom we’re nothing – nothing!

  • Almah LaVon Rice

    Almah LaVon Rice is a hummingbird in human drag always in search of sweet bon mots. Her writing can be found in Airbnb Online Magazine; GUTS: Canadian Feminist Magazine; Color Bloq; and Xtra Magazine; her whimsical short fiction is forthcoming in A Quiet Afternoon 2, a collection of low-fi gentle speculative fiction from all over the globe.

  • Bobbie Armstrong

    Bobbie Armstrong is a former child. Her writing has been published on McSweeney’s, Weekly Humorist, Slackjaw, Defenestration Magazine, and her parents’ fridge.

  • Ariane Anantaputri

    Ariane Anantaputri is a writer, stand-up comedian, musician and filmmaker currently based between London and Jakarta. She likes Fast and Furious movies wholeheartedly.

  • Functionally Dead

    Functionally Dead is a leftist comedy and culture ‘zine that publishes brand new issues of topical, irreverent satire bi-monthly. You can help support them by subscribing to their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/funcdead

  • Lillian Stone

    Lillian Stone is a Chicago-based humor writer covering food and sex. By day, she’s a staff writer at The Takeout. By night, she’s a headline and features contributor for The Onion and a regular ol’ contributor for outlets like The New Yorker, MEL Magazine, Real Simple, Allure, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Reductress.

  • Nevin Sharma

    There is a treasure buried underneath the bus that stops at the bus stop by my house. If you want to know any more please meet me there tomorrow afternoon. If you want to know less, I’m sorry, we are past the point of no return.

  • Austin Bernhardt

    Austin Bernhardt is a freelance copywriter and comedy writer currently at work on several pilots that will surely propel him to fame and stardom.

  • Janine Annett

    Janine Annett’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and many other places. Her book “I am ‘Why Do I Need Venmo?’ Years Old” is coming out in 2021.

  • Functionally Dead

    Functionally Dead is a leftist comedy and culture ‘zine that publishes brand new issues of topical, irreverent satire bi-monthly. You can help support them by subscribing to their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/funcdead

  • Tyree Rush

    Tyree is a writer, comedian, and metaphysical entity. He mainly writes for fun but if they can disrupt conventional thinking and hegemonic values in the process, well that’s just icing.

  • Marisa Winckowski

    Marisa is a writer from New York. Some of her work can be found on Filmatique.com, YuYuTV, and BurgeraDay.com. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Student Film Criticism in 2017. She studied sketch at UCB and The Magnet and these days she writes for sketch teams at The Armory and BoogieManja- now virtually, of course. Follow Marisa on TikTok and Letterboxd

  • Jay Shingle

    Jay Shingle is a comedy performer, musician, writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He is the creator of @ordinarypeoplememes on Instagram, and he has shared stages with comedians like Sarah Squirm, DJ Douggpound, Brent Weinbach, and Creed Bratton.

  • Bethy Squires

    Bethy Squires is a writer and rugmaker in Hollywood. She has provided labor for Drunk History, Vulture, Adam Ruins Everything, and The History of Swear Words on Netflix.

  • Functionally Dead

    Functionally Dead is a leftist comedy and culture ‘zine that publishes brand new issues of topical, irreverent satire bi-monthly. You can help support them by subscribing to their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/funcdead

  • Amber Gibson

    Amber Gibson is a nomadic writer specializing in travel, food, wine and wellness. Her work has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit and Robb Report.

  • Nick Brigis

    Nick Brigis is a comedian and writer based in New York City. His writing can be seen on Points and Case, Slackjaw, Robot Butt, and The Broadway Beat. Follow him on Twitter @nickbrigis.

  • Functionally Dead

    Functionally Dead is a leftist comedy and culture ‘zine that publishes brand new issues of topical, irreverent satire bi-monthly. You can help support them by subscribing to their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/funcdead

  • Ashley Glicken

    Ashley is a writer and comedian from Illinois. She has contributed work to ClickHole, Reductress, and Google, among others. She’s been performing improv comedy since she was 16 years old, and has studied and performed at multiple theaters including the Second City Chicago and the Magnet Theater in New York

  • Ramona Apthorp

    Ramona apthorp is a Los Angeles based writer and artist. She has written for sites such as the hard times and has had her artwork mentioned in hyperallergic. She often makes work that is whimsical and down right weird.

  • Erica Ruth Kelly

    Erica Ruth Kelly is a writer, storyteller, and speaker. Her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, The Toast, The Globe and Mail, and Maisonneuve. Originally from Montreal, she lived in Toronto for the past few years before recently moving to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she now shares a home with a very nice little dog who bears a striking resemblance to Falcor.

  • Aaron Weerasinghe

    Aaron Weerasinghe writes jokes and makes comics. You might see him using the moniker Gregor because [REDACTED].

  • Amanda Lehr

    Amanda is an organic lifeform based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Slackjaw, the Belladonna, the Niche, and several of the Zodiac letters.

  • Wilson Conkwright

    Wilson Conkwright is from a small town in Kentucky, much like George Clooney, Abraham Lincoln, and Muhammad Ali. He writes humor, voice acts and plays a disgusting amount of DnD.

  • Kaitlyn Jeffers

    Kaitlyn Jeffers is a stand-up comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. She was recently named one of Illuminative’s Top 25 Native American Comedians to Watch, and is a contributing writer for The Hard Times.

  • Kyrie Gray

    Kyrie Gray is a freelancer by day and writer/ avid salt and vinegar eater most of the other time. She edits the humor site Jane Austen’s Wastebasket and can often be found doodling something weird.

  • Shea Strauss

    Shea Strauss is a writer, illustrator, & designer in New York City. She writes songs to her cat and, less often, articles for The Hard Times and The New Yorker.

  • Meghana Indurti

    Meghana (Meg) is a stand up comedian and humor writer, currently contributing to Reductress, The Hard Times, and The New Yorker.

  • Caitlin Kunkel

    Caitlin Kunkel is a writer, teacher, and highly acclaimed pizza scientist. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She created the Online Satire Writing Program for The Second City and co-created the Satire and Humor Festival.

  • Lauren Lavín

    Lauren Lavín was made in Mexico and born in Oakland. She’s an editor & contributor for The Hard Times.

  • James Brown

    James Brown is a writer and comedian from Montreal. He hosted a show Squad Laughs was pretty popular back when you could have indoor gatherings.

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