Contributors2024
Keira Burgos, when not seen on a stage or napping peacefully in the library, is probably questioning her life choices. Keira hopes that in the future she’ll somehow become a successful performer after overcoming her crippling habits of procrastination (like in writing this bio).
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Aviv Emery is a senior from Yonkers, the fourth-biggest city in New York. You can often find her telling her life story to random people on the subway, listening to music (obnoxiously loudly), and telling her friends about her out of pocket dreams. In the fall, she will attend Penn State at University Park, where she will study how to teach your future kids while simultaneously psychoanalyzing them.
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My blue house in the green state
Alina Fagan is a senior at the Masters School and a future Don at USFCA. She loves cooking up stories about her childhood endeavors and mishaps in the kitchen. Portlander at heart, in her free time you can find her hiking, painting, swimming or binge watching 90’s sitcoms.
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Aurora Horn
With her wide range of interests and passions ranging from listening to indie-folk music to researching niche topics (right now it’s fungi), Aurora Rose Horn considers herself a jack of all trades. Time and again, she has found herself coming back to writing in its many forms, including but not limited to journalism, poetry, and short stories. In her spare time, you can find Aurora rewatching Good Omens, whipping up another batch of her infamous gluten-free banana bread, or spending quality time with her family and 13-year-old Maltese, Sugar. Next fall, Aurora will be attending Vassar College, where she plans on taking advantage of the open curriculum.
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She’s Everything. He’s the Bomb
Leo Horton is a music producer and student who lives in the streets of Garrison, NY. He makes beats and camp with his friends. He tried to submit a nonfiction song for this journal, but we had to turn him down.
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Theodore Knauss is a 17-year-old from Dobbs-Ferry, New York, with two glass eyes. Theo spends most of his time hanging out in a van by the river. He sleeps outside most nights since he tears up the furniture whenever he is let in. He deleted his Masters Google account two years ago from a tech office-related paranoia (they were placing ai text in his essays). He can tell metals apart by taste alone and uses this skill to pan for gold in the Hudson, which is his plan for the next five years.
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Violet Paull is a native New Yorker and has lived in Manhattan for seventeen out of seventeen years. Being born in the middle of Jewish holidays of judgement, she feels it is her birthright to be a freelance cultural critic in both conversation and writing. Her work deals with love, devotion, and middle school bitchiness. She plans to attend College in the fall.
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William Montgomery is a senior at the Masters School and lives in Larchmont, NY. He enjoys playing soccer, practicing the piano, spending time with his friends, and annoying his two younger brothers. William is planning to attend Northeastern University and will spend his first year studying in London.
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What happens at the Country Club, stays at the Country Club
National Award Winning Student-Journalist Matthias Jaylen thought he was going to be fine taking the Creative Nonfiction Class, creating a journal of student’s personal narratives, until he realized that a journal and journalism weren’t the same thing. Now he sincerely regrets trying to write about himself instead of writing about other people and apologizes to all of his readers. He thanks God, Geoff Nelson, and The United States of America for the first-amendment freedom to write this bio.
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Naiyah Jarrett is an 18-year-old from Brooklyn, NY, but now sadly located in Nyack, NY and soon moving to Tarrytown, NY. She loves playing volleyball, exploring the world of pottery, and spending time with friends and family, and she really hates being bored. Naiyah wouldn’t be able to live without good food and music, and can't wait to travel the world when she’s older. She will be headed to Occidental College in the fall, excited to start her journey on the other side of the country.
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Sophie Miller is an 18-year-old from Scarsdale, New York. She has a voracious appetite for artistic and literary interests, which include painting, photography, reading, and writing. Next year, she will be attending Washington University in St. Louis to study Art and English. When she’s not tearing up the lacrosse field or gym, Sophie loves spending time with friends, baking, listening to music, and watching movies.
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Tobias (Toby) Freeman is a seventeen-year-old filmmaker with illustrious status and fame at the masters school. From editor-in-chief of Panache, to self proclaimed Track and Field superstar, he may be the coolest kid on campus. When asked for some insight on his awesomeness Toby said: “Shiz man, I don’t even know. Like, I couldn’t even tell you that.”
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Grace
Grace Maher is an 18-year-old from Chappaqua, New York. Besides being a fake blonde, most of her hobbies include sleeping, eating, and spending money she does not have. She will be attending Scripps College where she will major in tanning and minor in neuroscience.
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Avery Kahn lives in New Rochelle, NY. He plays piano, does cardistry, and has collected far too many broken film cameras. He has spent high school thoroughly torturing Apple products by means of Adobe products. An appreciator of Laserdisc and record players, he is truly too (artistically) stuck in the nineteen-eighties for his own good.
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Left Hand