Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, media theorist, and architect. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University...
Doris Friedensohn
Doris Friedensohn writes about ethnic foodways, innovative teaching, world travel and multicultural encounters in Metro NY/NJ. A retired Professor of Women’s Studies, she has co-curated several traveling exhibits on women’s...
Elias Diakolios
Elias Diakolios holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University where he served as Poetry Editor for Columbia Journal 59 and taught an introductory poetry course as part of a...
Alison Miller
Alison Miller is a native of Leonia, New Jersey. Ali has been an artist for most of her life. She is a producer, dancer, singer, actress, choreographer, writer and yogi!...
Marc Leland
Trained as a dancer and actor but shifted to writing in the 1990’s. Have produced numerous shorts, two documentaries, and two features films. Currently working on a time travel romcom...
Ahna Tessler
www.ahnatesslerphotography.com I’m a mother who was living in New York City for the past 23 years. Now I’m a Jersey Girl! My first experience as a photographer began on...
Rich Veca
A cartoonist since memory allows, Rich Veca is an avid friend to the pencil and pen. Drawing inspiration from works of fiction, fantasy, adventure, pop culture, and personal accounts, he...
Joe Malone 1937 – 2022
I am sometimes electrified to write, mainly by events, external or internal, many in Brooklyn, some 60 years ago, others at the very present moment. Much has been codified in...
Lisa Hansen
The New York Times described flutist Lisa Hansen as “irresistibly lyrical” and praised her “considerable coloristic variety.” She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of the...
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya is a founder and facilitator of Bergen Poetry Workshop, and an Administrative Assistant at Leonia United Methodist Church. She earned a Bachelors in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing...
Barry Schwartz
Rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia Author of seven books for adults, teens and children Author page: amazon.com/Barry-L.-Schwartz
Steven Swank
The creative imperative is the urgent call to action, it is in the doing and being that our lives are expressed. While the product of our endeavors is certainly important,...
Marcia Wilson 1937-2018
I am a failed artist Enjoying every bit of it Delighted to live in my home town of Leonia NJ As a kid I studied oil painting with Charles Chapman...
Kathleen (Kate) Clark
Kathleen Clark’s plays, Southern Comforts and Secrets of a Soccer Mom, were produced off-Broadway and are presented widely throughout the US and Canada. Prior to the New York production at Primary Stages, Southern Comforts was produced...