Messy Misfits Club
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Messy Misfits Club wants you to meet the team behind the zine. Flower and Emma are both creative powerhouses dedicating their abilities to uplifting the voices of marginalized and typically censored groups. Flower chooses to remain anonymous at this time, but fae is a major part of our team and deserves just as much recognition for faer effort and passion toward this zine! Baby and Helen all joined the team later on in hopes to continue improving it and reach a larger audience.
The Team
Emma Cholip - Editor
Emma (they/them/she/her) is a Madison-based nonbinary and Queer author, and video game connoisseur. They attended UW-Madison and majored in Creative Writing and Gender & Women's Studies while working as Fiction Editor for all four years in The Madison Review.
They later worked for Elite Editing, and wrote their own horror novels and poems in their free time. After spending a year in Chicago, they moved back to Wisconsin to expand the Messy Misfits Club zine to new territory. Since joining The Club, Em has met many incredible leaders in the LGBTQIA+ community, and continues to nourish these relationships in hopes that one day they can be a supporting pillar for the people who have helped them grow so much.
They have poetry published in 20/20 Mag, Queerlings, Penumbra Online, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Brave Voices Mag, among others featured on their Linktree.
Helen Wargo - Graphic Design & Layout
Helen {they/them/she/her} is a 23-year-old artist and illustrator based in Chicago, IL, with a minor in illustration from DePaul University. Their colorful work focuses on childhood nostalgia and a dash of whimsy. Helen spends her free time knitting “unwearable” sweaters, fostering cats, and scrolling through Tiktok.
Baby Wood - Coeditor and Event Coordinator
Baby {zie/zir/they/them} is a Chicago playwright currently focused on the exploration of realism with supernatural elements woven throughout to heighten zir storytelling. Zir goal in all of zir work is to make the audience question themselves and the realities zie creates, focusing on stories of family and self-realization. Zie is also a poet, fashion, and graphic designer always looking to explore different types of creative outlets.
