Mara is a writer, researcher, and designer based in Los Angeles. A third-generation Angeleno, she holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Art History from UCLA. Mara’s writing has appeared in the The Slowdown, the Larchmont Chronicle, and Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts. A guiding interest in her work is design history, including topics related to architecture, ephemera, and hyperlocal geographic areas.
Joel Weston Wood is an interdisciplinary writer, researcher, and educator. Joel holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University, as well as an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of California, Irvine where he taught for four years. Relentlessly interested in the history of spaces and how they affect our lived experience and imagination, Joel has collaborated on course design with renowned urban theorist Mike Davis, published poems drawing on the work of Christopher Alexander, and presented on the ephemeral cultural geography of Craigslist at the Hammer Museum. Originally hailing from the Arkansan Ozarks, Joel now lives a stone’s throw from the swan boats in Echo Park.
A. L. Anzalone is a freelance researcher and librarian. She has worked for a variety of research and educational institutions, including Woodbury University, Getty Research Institute, CZ Biohub, and the Los Angeles Community College District. She is also a writer of speculative fiction. A native of Los Angeles, she holds a B.A. (English Literature) from UCLA and a Master’s Degree (Library and Information Studies) from UC Berkeley.
Claudia Eve Beauchesne is a writer, art historian and archivist. Born in Montreal, Canada, she holds an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Art from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Master’s degree in Art and Design History from the Pratt Institute in New York City. She is a regular contributor to the biannual arts and culture magazine Kennedy, and is currently at work on a book documenting New York’s East Village art scene of the 1980s. Drawn to Los Angeles for its warm weather and mythical aura of glamour and decadence, she stayed for its diversity and for its eclectic architecture, which never fails to spark her imagination. She is most interested in portraying people, places and subcultures through interviews and oral histories.
Some of her work can be found at https://claudiaevebeauchesne.com