SIREN

Canto IV

About the editors

It was during a brief period of university life in Bologna, Italy that Raisa and Cassidy met on a train to the beach. Raisa loved Cassidy's flared jeans. Cassidy loved Raisa's fig tattoos. SIREN was born two years later, through letters and phone calls across opposite US coasts.

ABOUT CASSIDY

 

When Cassidy Villeneuve is not busy collecting shells, craft supplies, and sound effects — she is making music, sculpting, cold-ocean swimming, or silly dancing. She graduated from Scripps College in 2017, where she studied Italian and all things humanities. She misses the hot desert wind.

 

Cassidy is founding editor-in-chief of SIREN and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

 

cassidy@cantodellasirena.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT RAISA

 

Raisa Imogen was born in Portland, OR and grew up in Chicago. She earned a BA from Bowdoin College, where she was the recipient of the American Academy of Poets Prize. In 2016, she studied Italian literature with a concentration on Dante’s Inferno at the University of Bologna. Her poetry and essays can be found at Muzzle Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and at www.raisaimogen.net. In 2018, she was a resident at Gullkistan artist residency in Laugarvatn, Iceland. When Raisa is not editing or writing, she’s herbal-crafting at the Brooklyn Herborium, boxing, and dancing like a weirdo on her roof. The founding editor-in-chief of SIREN, Raisa currently lives in Charlottesville, VA. She’s a candidate for an MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia.

 

raisa@cantodellasirena.com

SIREN artists

Alison McLaughlin

Ama Oforiwaa

Amanda Spiller

Ana Marina Farina

Arah Ko

Benjamin Eisenberg

Chelsea Ducote

Chuck Edelson

dale j rappaneau jr.

David Tolchinsky

Diana Darby

Eli Peirce

Emily Dean

Eva Sibinga

Glenn Cabbagestalk

Hanif Abdurraqib

Ilana Marder-Eppstein

Iris McComb

Jacqueline Suskin

Jennifer Jaffe

Joceyn Gee

Jodie Epstein

J.T. Edelson

Julia Morris

Kate Horowitz

 

Katherine Downes

Kathlryn Lin

Katie Coleman

Lili Glauber

Marie Scarles

Mark C

Michael Colbert

Micaela Foley

Michelle Batho

Mikaylo Kelly

Natasha Soto

Olivia Robbins

Penelope Lusk

Peter Winslow

Peter Yanson

Regina Hernandez

Roxanne McIntosh

Ryan Strange

Sarah Posner

Sionnain Buckley

Skye Aresty

Sondra Fink

Teddy Goetz

Tim Zamboni

Zelda Edelson

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