About the Artists in LIT 40
Jacelyn Yap 
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Jacelyn (she/her) is a self-taught visual artist who ditched engineering to make art because of a comic she read. Her artworks and photography have been published by the Commonwealth Foundation’s adda, Chestnut Review, The Lumiere Review, and more. She can be found at https://jacelyn.myportfolio.com/ and on Instagram at @jacelyn.makes.stuff
Alessandro Avondo born in Milan, Italy in 1983, studies languages and then audiovisual production. He meets, at his first job, photography that accompanies him daily for 20 years. Over time he experiments with countless photographic applications in different sectors but the constant of his work, as if it were a backbone, remains the editorial work. This passion never fails and in 2019 Naive was born, a small agency that collects and distributes his personal photographic work that focuses mainly on “our presence on this planet”. The agency’s website can be reached at www.naiveagency.eu
Tiffany Babb writes and edits articles about comics, baseball, and pop culture. She is the editor of the comics criticism journal The Comics Courier and baseball website The Fan Files. You can find her poetry in Rust + Moth, Third Wednesday Magazine, and Cardiff Review. Her first collection of poetry A LIST OF THINGS I’VE LOST is currently available for purchase from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press and can be ordered wherever books are sold.
Salihu Muhammad Ebba LEGEND BARD is a 17 years old Nigerian Writer || Artist || Legend || Poet || Educationist || Reader|| Researcher || Books Reviewer || Essayist || Short Stories Writer || Graphic Designer || Smartphone Photographer and Spoken Word Artist from Ebba. He was the Second Place Winner of the Quarterly Writing Contest themed A farewell A new Dawn. And won 6th position of the time out4africa Minna Photography Contest (3rd edition). He is currently a final year student of Legend International School, Minna. With a strong foundation from Guided Medal Model School, Minna. He is also a Member of the Hill-top Creative Art Foundation. He is published/forthcoming nationally & internationally in different magazines and journals like Afrocritic, Kalahari Review, Lit Magazine, Arts Lounge Magazine, Ikike Arts and others. Legend Bard always prays to be a Legend in anything that will alter smiles on God's face. You can access some of his work through this link: https://linktr.ee/legend_bard
He is rich on Facebook as Salihu Muhammad Ebba, Instagram at sm._ebba, email at emailsmebba009@gmail.com
Denver Boxleitner is a university fine arts student whose art, fiction and poetry have been published.
Stephanie Ann Farra of Philadelphia, is a photographer and writer whose work explores the subtle intersections of nature and human expression. With a deep appreciation for history and storytelling, she uses both imagery and language to capture moments that feel timeless
KJ Hannah Greenberg https://kjhannahgreenberg.net/ has been playing with words and images for an awfully long time. Hannah’s had more than fifty books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals. Hannah writes about: Judaism, parenting, imaginary hedgehogs, and starfaring, polycephalic, gelatinous wildebeests. See more of Hannah’s work in LIT 37.
Ioulia Lymperopoulou is a published and awarded Greek Italian writer, a filmmaker, an art performer and an illustrator. She graduated in History & has a Master in Modern European History and a thesis on German-language interwar literature, in UOI, at Ioannina, Greece. Her writings−apart from six published books, a dystopian novel “The Smudge” (Taxideftis, 2021), a short illustrated story “The Patch” (Kondyli, 2025) and four collective works of short stories, fruits of literary contests−such as short stories, poems, studies, articles, essays, etc., have been published in print magazines and on the internet. Among them, “Crazy piñata” was a magazine, as part of CityMag-online magazine (CMOM), that she wrote entirely on her own in Greek language, with selected topics on Films, Books and Music (2011-2015). She also writes poetry in Greek and in English, and has published in various magazines: Mediterranean Poetry, Sweden; Aloka Magazine UK; e-revista EgoPHobia Romania; Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Belgrade, Serbia; Nokturno, Finland (forthcoming). As a visual artist she uses mixed media to create her artworks. Website: https://ioulia.gr/
Thomas Vogt is an aspiring poet, photographer, and city planner in Sacramento, California. He enjoys capturing the ‘every day’ through a pen, a lens, or behind a mug at your local coffee shop. His work can be found in Radar Poetry, Magpie Zine, and 3elements Review.” bsky.app/profile/tele-vision.bsky.social @___television
Ami Watanabe is an artist from Chicago, IL. She won the Scriblarean Best Poem Contest, and was Second Place Winner of the Sigrid Stark Undergraduate Poetry. Her poems and articles have appeared in the Spindrift, Scribblarean, the Pond, The Write City Review, volume 4, Laminator Vol 1, Soul in Space Journal, Yawp, Idiosyncratic Gloss, Storm Cellar, Raven’s Perch, The Calumet Press, and the Southeast Observer. Her photography has appeared in the Chicago Star, Memory House Magazine, spring 2023 edition, and Performance Response Journal. Check her blog out at www.diamondlifeadventures.wordpress.com
Kevin Wei is a student at the University of Pennsylvania studying Digital Media Design. He likes penguins and likes walking with his dog.
