Hot stuff. Just what the doctor ordered. Five-foot-ten at twelve and a half years old, with a body to be reckoned with, a body with curves we had just learned to describe as convex. Unity would have been memorable for her name—a sentence unto itself, one teacher said—but over the summer she’d developed a larger-than-life…
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Kate Simonian
Kate Simonian is an Australian citizen of Armenian descent. She holds a BA from Sydney University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her work has been published by, or is forthcoming in, The Kenyon Review Online, Passages North, Colorado Review, and Best Australian Stories. She’s pursuing an English PhD with a creative writing emphasis in prose at Texas Tech, where she’s a Presidential Fellow and a managing editor for Iron Horse.
Enrica Angiolini
Enrica ‘Eren’ Angiolini was born in Rome in 1988. Raised in a family rich with creativity, she developed a deep love for art—illustration and photography, in particular. She studied foreign languages in high school and college, gaining a Bachelor’s degree in Japanese Language and Culture. Throughout her entire life, she never put aside her passion for drawing. She worked as an illustrator and cover artist until she started a career as a comic colorist in 2015. After some brief collaborations with several editors (Dark Horse, Aspen Comics), she is now working on her first full series for Titan Comics.
