ALANA DAO [@alana.dao] is a mother, writer, and restaurant worker whose creative practice explores contemporary culture, food, and identity. Her work most often takes the form of artists' books, zines, and essays. She received a BA from Smith College and an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Co-Director of A CLEARING. Born in Texas, she resides in Maine.

MAGGIE FIORI [@maggiefiori] is a small-scale printmaker and member of Pickwick Independent Press in Portland, Maine. She makes relief and letterpress prints, books, and zines rooted in her experience as a queer Quaker, illustrating her particular experience of God in a way that feels universal. Her work testifies to the embodied experience of some overwhelming, life-transforming mystery.

NICOLE MANGANELLI [@radicalemprints] is a letterpress printer, poet, and art worker based in the unceded Wabanaki territory known as Portland, Maine. The goal of her printmaking is to nourish organizers of all kinds with fierce, beautiful words that keep people invested in social movement work for the long haul. She also co-facilitates grassroots fundraising & grantwriting trainings for movement organizations with Resource Organizing Project. You can find more of her work at radicalemprints.com or @radicalemprints on Instagram.

Born and adopted from Cuenca, Ecuador, RAQUEL P MILLER [@raquelpmiller] is an artist living and working from Biddeford, Maine. Through painting, she is interested in unearthing the unexpressed and revealing what cannot be seen–exploring emotions, memory, grief and dreams. She was the recipient of a 2022 BIPOC Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. In 2023, she was an artist in residence at SPACE Gallery in Portland, ME, and the recipient of the David C. Driskell Fellowship and Residency at Black Seed Studio. She shows her work online and throughout New England.

MIDORI MORROW [@_midorimorrow_] is an interdisciplinary artist and activist working with photographic installation and printmaking. They received their Associates of Fine Arts in photography from the Delaware College of art and design in 2019, went on to get their Bachelors of Fine Arts in photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2021, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art and Design in 2024. Morrow explores themes of identity and belonging within the Asian American diaspora. Their artistic practice works in tandem with their work as a nuclear peace activist. They have worked with multiple activist groups such as Peace Action and Physicians for Social Responsibility through giving artist talks and showing their art to discuss how the nuclear peace movement can live on within younger generations. In November of 2023 Midori attended as a delegate at the Second Meeting of States Parties at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In August of 2023 they were the United States Delegate at The World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen bombs, where they participated in workshops in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan talking about the movement for nuclear disarmament. They also gave an artist talk at the world conference using their art as an entry point for the conversation of nuclear peace.

MAYA SKYLARK [@mayaskylark] (any pronouns) writes softly about hard things. Their work combines the rich imagery and metaphors of both textiles and the natural world to explore transformation, death, grief, and renewal. She has self-published her poetry and essays since 2017 and you can read past newsletters on her substack archive: mayaskylark.substack.com.

MEG WILLING [@megwilling] is a poet, editor, interdisciplinary artist, and book designer. Growing up in Quito, Ecuador; Bangkok, Thailand; Bogotá, Colombia; and various parts of Maine and Massachusetts, she now calls the foothills of Maine home. Her creative work examines the sweet splinterings of memory, belonging, and desire through poetry, collage, cut-up, erasure, and altered books. She currently serves as Art and Design Editor for the literary arts journal Gigantic Sequins; Assistant Manager at Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers; Shop Assistant at Independent Auto Volvo Service; and, with Alana Dao, is the Co-Founder / Co-Director of A CLEARING.