HIRED GUNS

HETHER FORTUNE, WRITER

A Michigan-raised writer, deranged Twitter user, and semiretired musician who fronted the band Wax Idols for a decade. She has published two collections of poetry, Waiting in Various Lines (2013-2017) and Ceramic Flowers, and has been allegedly working on her first book for longer than she cares to admit here. Sometimes, when the mood swing is juuust right, she paints stuff. When not hard at work doing (or not doing) the aforementioned, Hether can most likely be found at home watching (and rewatching) The Sopranos with her two cats, Carmella and Furio.

See: Breakfast With Nickelback, page 64

CARL CHISOLM, PHOTOGRAPHER

Carl grew up in Harlem in the ’80s and has vivid memories of abandoned buildings, summertime block parties, music blasting through boomboxes on 125th Street, open fire hydrants, freezing-cold sledding in St. Nicholas Park, New Amsterdam Boys Choir rehearsals in East Harlem, rooftop basketball at Boys Harbor, and stopping by Pan Pan’s for breakfast after church. He experienced New York through those lenses and many more, finding the city—and Harlem especially—to be a place of great history and inspiration in his photography.

See: CREEM Dreem, page 16

KATE SWEENEY, PHOTOGRAPHER