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Ian Ager

Ian Ager is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. He spends most of his time procrastinating and pondering which sauce would be best to eat the rich with.

Xu Mason

Xu (pronounced like “shoe”) is a writer/comedian/actress who studied improv in Chicago, and grew up in Minnesota. She has a lot of opinions on apples, anime, and soup dumplings.

Richard Spitaletta

Richard is a writer/comedian based out of New York City. His comedy short “What You Do Best” was recently a finalist at the Austin Short Film Comedy Festival. He has studied sketch and improv at UCB, and was also applauded for taking emotional risks while rolling around on the floor in his college production of “Spring Awakening.” Follow him on twitter @imsotiredrnlol

Amar Singh

Amar Singh is a great comedian to check out if you like your comedians energetic and world weary! You can find out his whole deal on his twitter @mywiferight

Katrina Santos

Katrina Santos is a Santa Cruz–based writer and proud mother of an elderly, 10-pound rabbit. She co-founded The Periphery, a Detroit-based magazine. Follow her on Twitter @KatrinaNSantos.

Harmony Cox

Harmony Cox is a queer Midwestern essayist and humorist. Her words have appeared in McSweeneys, Catapult, Electric Literature, and many other places. Find more of her work at harmonycox.com, or follow her on Twitter @harmonopoly.

Marito Lopez

Marito Lopez is a professional stand up comedian who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is of Latinx descent and was born in El Salvador. He has appeared on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and MTV Canada, and much more. He is also an actor who has appeared on countless TV shows and Film.

Shayna Goodman

Shayna Goodman’s essays have appeared in The Cut, Salon, Lilith Magazine, Jewish Currents, and Grub Street Literary Magazine, among other places. Her work is nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hunter College.

Jon Plester

Jon Plester is a video maker, comedy writer, and all-around bad boy who currently resides in Chicago. Currently he’s a headline contributor for ClickHole, but in the past his work has been featured on Vulture, Paste Magazine, Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Above Average, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Carly Bivona

Carly Bivona is a writer and comedian based in New York. Her writing has been featured in Reductress and her PERSONAL journal, Carol! In her spare time you can find her googling answers to the crossword.

Julie Hoang

Julie is an LA-based writer, having written sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She’s originally from Seattle aka Diet San Francisco.

Melody McCune

I am an old soul in a young meat suit who loves to write, eat copious amounts of cheese, binge-watch too much TV, and use humor as a defense mechanism. I prefer dogs over people. You can find my ramblings on Geek Girl Authority, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium.

Erika Holter

Erika Holter is a freelance writer and content creator, joining us from her Canadian winter wonderland. When she’s not writing she can be found snowshoeing (winter), camping in the Rocky Mountains (summer), eating poutine, apologizing needlessly, or watching Schitt’s Creek and Anne of Green Gables (okay, we get it, you’re Canadian).

Seth Rubin

Seth is a comedian and writer who has been published in Reductress, McSweeney’s, and more. They like to play chess and eat everything bagels, but never at the same time.

Tom Smyth

Tom Smyth is a humor and culture writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Reductress, Vulture, Teen Vogue, Bustle, and fan letters to Ina Garten.

Meredith Hackman

Meredith Hackman is a comedian and writer, known for George Washington: DTF (Comedy Central) and Commuters (Channel 101). She has written and produced numerous plays and performed stand up, improv, and sketch comedy across New York, Los Angeles, and London. She believes she brings a unique perspective to her comedy as a sib in the disabled community.

Lindsay Hameroff

Lindsay Hameroff lives in Harrisburg, PA with her husband and two kids. Her writing has been published in McSweeneys, Weekly Humorist, Daily Drunk Mag, Little Old Lady, and other outlets. In her spare time, she can be found reading, cooking, or fantasizing about making brisket for Harry Styles.

Vic Pinto

Vic Pinto is a humor writer and grad student in Miami, FL. He’s studied writing at Second City and doesn’t own a TV. Is he a broke college student or Hipster? That’s for you to decide.

Elise Seyfried

Elise is the author of four book of humorous essays, and has written for many publications including The Belladonna Comedy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Purple Clover, The Independent, HuffPost, Grok Nation and Chicken Soup for the Soul. Elise is the mother of five children, and spends a lot of time working in a church. This is probably not a coincidence.