Our Authors
Charlotte Chase
Charlotte Chase is a graduate in art history and Italian studies from University College London and Ca’ Foscari, dividing her time between Venice and London. Recently qualified in Gemmology (not ‘germology’, as she often has to clarify) her current interests lie in the history and psychology behind jewellery types. A healthy curiosity for medieval relics led her to research the use of bodily remains in jewellery, examining their role as material agents of memory.
Chloë Eia Hancock
Chloë Eia Hancock works as a creative producer in film & TV. She writes short stories and essays as a hobby.
Elissa Lenoir Ajaka
Elissa Lenoir Ajaka is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based between Paris and London. Her practice explores the reinterpretation and republication of archives as a way to question how memory is constructed, preserved, and cared for. Working across print, image-making, and research-based projects, she engages with personal and collective histories, examining the narratives embedded within them. You can find more of her work on Instagram (@elissalenoirajaka).
Emily Mackrell
Emily Mackrell is a musician and writer based amid ruins in rural Yorkshire, between the Plath and Brontë graves. Her work explores the ways that division-by-zero occurs within us and our perception; it can be found at sacred.blue.
Helena C. Aeberli
Helena C. Aeberli is a writer and researcher based between London and Oxford, where she is currently working on a PhD on early modern eating disorders. She writes the Substack twenty-first century demoniac. More information and selected publications can be found at helenaaeberli.co.uk.
Helena van Urk
Helena van Urk is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses chiefly on Dante’s Divine Comedy in the postcolonial sphere. Her poetry has previously been published in Moputso magazine and Echoes from the Goatshed.
Lili Peg Jenkins
Lili Peg Jenkins is a poet, prose writer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Bristol. Her creative work is concerned with the mundane magic of the everyday, abstracting personal experiences and finding the present moment in the flurry of obsessive compulsive thought patterns. Lili is co-founder of the aspiring writers collective and poetry event series titled 'Something Borrowed, Something Blue' and their writing can be found via Instagram (@msglumcakes) and Substack.
Massimo Valentino Mitchell
Massimo Valentino Mitchell is a first-year Modern and Medieval Languages student at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, based in Kent and Trieste. His intellectual interests centre on nationalism and multiculturalism in early modern and Enlightenment-era Europe.
Niamh Keady
Niamh Keady is an artist born in Cambridge, now based in London. A graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, her creative interests lie in the interplay between movement, music and words. She has performed her poetry at venues across London and Leeds, as well as the interdisciplinary performance project 'Sampling'. Her work can be found at: niamhkeady.co.uk.
Noah Rouse
After studying theology, with a particular focus on Islam and nature theologies, Noah now lives in Beirut. Other published work is available on spotify, youtube, and some other corners of the internet.
Saul Britton
Saul Britton is a Bristol-based poet, originally from Oldham in Lancashire. He tries his best most of the time. You can find more of his work at justavinagoreally.substack.com.
Xinyuan Chen
Xinyuan Chen is an MPhil student in English Studies at the University of Cambridge.