Fall 2021 | Occasus | Issue 11.2
Contributors
Victoria Domazet is a second-year Linguistics major at Western University, intending to minor in Creative Writing.
Mackenzie Emberley is a fourth-year student completing an Honours Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language and Literature at Western University. They have published flash fiction, poetry, and academic essays in two of Arts & Humanities Students' magazines. Rachel Oseida was previously published in the "It Calls from the Forest: Volume 2" horror anthology and enjoys writing stories wrapped in folklore. Rachel is in first year but her passion for writing was solidified during her high school creative writing classes. Cassy Player is a poet studying English and Creative Writing at Western University. When not writing, she and hean be found happily dancing down the street for inspiration. Alex Rozenberg is a third-year student pursuing a double major in Film Studies and the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH). Her favourite movie is either Hubie Halloween or Rear Window depending on who's asking. Madeleine Schaafsma is finishing her third year at King's for an Honors Specialization in English and a Minor in Writing from Western. She can't resist a good metaphor and loves to explore the meaning within the seemingly mundane, so she hopes to use her writing to share the resulting joys, questions, and reflections with others. Cindy Xie is a third-year undergraduate student at Western currently majoring in Anthropology, with a minor in Jewish Studies. Cindy likes to channel emotions through poetry, having been on the exec team for Western's Spoken Word Society two years in a row, but also possesses a particular fondness for fiction. Alanna Zorgdrager is a third-year student of English literature, aspiring to an honours specialization in creative writing. She writes primarily in speculative fiction (science fiction in particular), historical fiction, and any work of literature that involves worldbuilding, but also enjoys and makes effort to sample literature across genre and form. She was the winner of the 2020 Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature. Alanna enjoys reading, playing the piano, and teaching herself Russian on the internet. Her favourite novels are Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment" and Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga’s "The Courage to be Disliked." |